Church & Papal Documents Related to Sacred Music

Sing to the Lord – USCCB Guideline (non-binding) – November 14, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI’s Visit to the Pont. Institute of Sacred Music Rome – October 13, 2007
Summorum Pontificum (motu proprio) Pope Benedict XVI – July 7, 2007
Chirograph on Sacred Music 100th anniversary of Pope St. Pius X’s Tra le Sollecitudini – 2003
Roman Missal, 3rd Editio Typica – Latin, Approved by Pope John Paul II – 2000
Letter to Artists – 1999

Roman Missal, 2nd Editio Typica (Current Edition, save 1985 minor alterations) – March 1975
Letter to the Bishops on the Minimum Repertoire of Plainchant Cong. for Divine Worship– April 1974
Liturgicae instaurationes (Instr. III on Constitution on Liturgy) Cong. for Divine Worship– Sept 1970
Roman Missal, 1st Editio Typica, General Instruction for the Roman Missal – PPVI– March 1970
Tres abhinc annos(Instruction II on Constitution on Liturgy) Sacred Cong. for Rites – May 1967
Musicam Sacram (Instruction on Music) Cong. for Rites– March 1967
Inter oecumenici(Instruction I on Constitution on Liturgy) Sacred Cong. for Rites– September 1964
Sacram Liturgiam (Motu Proprio) Pope Paul VI– January 1964
Sacrosanctum Concilium Second Vatican Council (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy)– 1963
Pope John XXIII announces Second Vatican Council – January 25, 1959
De musica sacra et sacra liturgia Cong. for Rites – Feast of Saint Pius X – 1955
Musicae Sacrae Disciplina (Encyclical) Pope Pius XII – 1955
Mediator Dei (Encyclical) Pope Pius XII –1947
Mystici Corporis (Encyclical) Pope Pius XII– 1943
Divini Cultus (Apostolic Constitution) Pope Pius XI– 1928
Tra le Sollecitudini (motu proprio) Pope Saint Pius X –1903