| By Catholic News
Service
SILVER SPRING, Md. (CNS) — The National Association
of Pastoral Musicians is polling Catholics online, asking them to rate
the quality of singing of their fellow Catholics in the pews.
The two big questions in the survey are “How would you rate the
congregational singing in your own parish or worshipping community?”
and “Based on your own experience of participating in the liturgy
of other parishes and communities, how would you rate congregational singing
generally in the United States?”
Survey participants are also asked to describe the setting of their parish,
what kinds of music books are available for use in their parish, and whether
they participate in their parish’s music ministry.
The survey is available at www.npm.org, the Web site of the pastoral musicians’
group, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. The survey also
was published in the association’s membership magazine, Pastoral
Music. Voting continues through Nov. 30. The results will be published
in early 2008.
The association has conducted similar surveys in each of the past two
years. In 2005, it asked what song most affected the faith life of the
respondent. Last year, the association surveyed Catholics on what factors
encourage — and discourage — singing in church.
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