Talk:List of Catholic hymns

Requested move 2 September 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved. No objections, and seems reasonable. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:55, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

List of Roman Catholic hymns → List of Catholic hymns – WP:CONSISTENCY with Contemporary Catholic liturgical music, comprising that of both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic churches. PPEMES (talk) 10:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)


 * See also a related ongoing RM at Talk:Roman Catholic–Eastern Orthodox relations. Colin M (talk) 15:45, 2 September 2019 (UTC)


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This list has Catholic hymns in Latin and English, but no other languages. What should I do with German hymns? As long as this is just a list of names, without added years of publication, author etc, I am reluctant to add, - for whom? Perhaps I'll make a list of German hymns under Gotteslob. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

The English translators.
I think it needs to be stated here that because of the very strong tradition of congregational (as well as choral) singing in Protestant and Anglican churches, many of the Ancient Latin Hymns that had dropped from common usage were revived, translated, and set to tunes by Protestant German or English hymn writers. These hymns would almost certainly not be in use today had they not become part of Protestant tradition, and set to tunes sometimes by Bach, Handel and other great composers. When these hymns are sung in Catholic churches, they are essentially in the translations and to the tunes given them by Protestants from the 17th century onwards.

Amandajm (talk) 11:35, 27 September 2021 (UTC)