I has gots to get me ninety five dollars...

Fr Ruff's book looks too good to be putting off until we all feel solvent.
I suppose I could reason that with the amount of money I saved the parish by arranging, writing, searching out that in the public domain, and scrounging paper instead of buying octavos, I've more than made up for that amount, and I could buy it "for" the parish, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having saved the parish money, doesn't it,(my heating bill was nearly twice last years for the month of December, I'd be paralytic with fear is the church's was my responsibility -- why don't all priests have ulcers?)

Anyway, in the meanwhile, huzzah, (and "hoopla"?) for Google Books .

I'll have to wait for my seven hundred and four pages of liturgicky goodness....

German chant scholar Godehard Joppich emphasizes the textual primacy of chant when he declares, somewhat provocatively that Gregorian chant is not "music" and that one should not speak of the chant "melody." These terms carry associations that are inadequate for the liturgical chant.... [for him] Gregorian chant is "simply"....

"Simply" what??!?#?$?%?!!??^?&?*?

I must know.