... role in the Catholic service. Music, at the forefront of this ceremony, was dramatically restricted in the role it cold now play, almost being banned by some puritans, a remnant of Catholic ways, which just distracted from worship. John Calvin, a severe protestant reformer, was of this view. He condemned all Catholic liturgy and ceremony. All non bible texts were eliminated from usage in ... his church, and he even banned his congregation from partaking in musical activities in the home. Like all reformers, Calvin deeply disapproved of the use of ... and its meaning. In 1549, the first...

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