and learned musician, for the purpose of restoring a more perfect relation
between music and the liturgy and erecting a barrier against the intrusion
of dramatic and virtuoso tendencies. Flourishing branches of this society
exist in many of the chief church centres of Europe and America. It is
the patron of schools of music, it has issued periodicals, books, and
musical compositions, and has shown much vigor in making propaganda for
its views.

Not less intelligent and earnest is the Schola Cantorum of Paris, which
is exerting a strong influence upon church music in the French capital and
thence throughout the world by means of musical performances, editions
of musical works, lectures, and publications of books and essays.]

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