You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholicth. It's the Feast of St. Patrick, and I'm Cecilia Leskowitz from the Hildegard Collective, a ministry for Catholic musicians.

We've been time traveling this week through musical history in the Catholic Church, and we have

covered a lot of years so far, but we've still got 120 years or so to travel through today,

so let's get started. Now you might remember that music was always kind of separated into

two main categories. You had sacred music and secular music. But in the 20th

century, music began to really split into two different categories. On the one hand, you had serious

music, which can include music for Jesus. And on the other hand, you have popular music,

which can also include music for Jesus.

And I think there's something really beautiful there, you know?

Jesus made music and he made all of us differently.

So one person might love more serious music and another person might love music that they can jam out in the car too.

The composers can write music for Jesus in either of these categories.

And we're going to learn about a few different people today.

Some of them wrote more serious music, some of them wrote more popular music, but they all did it for God.

But before we meet them, we got to talk about something that happened in the

serious music camp that was really important. There was a composer named Arnold Schenberg,

and Arnold was an atheist, which means he didn't believe in God. He felt like music was too

closely linked to God, which he was right about because, you know,

God created music.

But he didn't like this.

And he really didn't like all of the music developments that came through the Catholic Church,

especially tonality.

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