PLEASE NOTE: Links to the audio files of Fr. Kirby's lecture are included below. You can click the link to listen on your computer, or right click (mac users control + click) to download the file as an mp3. Thanks to Carl Dierschow (http://www.music.dierschow.com) for hosting the audio.

The recorded lecture was given on Tuesday 6/22/2010 at the CMAA Sacred Music Colloquium XX as one of the afternoon breakouts. The lecture description reads:

“This session will approach the sacred liturgy as the wellspring and matrix of all theology and examine liturgical chant within this context as the sung theology of the church.”

I’ll be attending the second and third sessions of this series throughout the week. Barring any mishaps, those lectures will be recorded and posted as well.

Thank you, Fr. Kirby, for your kind permission to record and distribute your lecture.

On a side note: The hymn you hear at the beginning is titled, “Sub Tuum Praesidium.”

We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

English Translation taken from “The Parish Book of Chant.”Courtesy, Church Music Association of America. www.musicasacra.com

Tuesday Lecture: What Is Liturgical Theology (1/3)

Wednesday Lecture: The Function of Liturgical Chant (2/3)

Thursday Lecture: Psalmody (3/3)