The IVE has a great commitment to solemn and dignified music in liturgical celebration. Most notably, of course, this means Gregorian chant, which the Second Vatican Council emphasized as being specially suited to the Roman Liturgy and therefore deserving of pride of place in the Roman rite.* Another venerable and beautiful part of the musical tradition of the Catholic Church is sacred polyphony such as that composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria, and which the Second Vatican Council mentions immediately after Gregorian Chant as well-suited for the celebration of the liturgy in the Latin rite, while not ruling out appropriate hymnody as well.

To give you an idea of what we strive for in liturgical music, here you will find some recordings (in mp3 format) done by the Schola Cantorum of the IVE's largest seminary, Maria Madre del Verbo Encarnado in Argentina. Perhaps later we will add recordings of polyphonic musical pieces done by one of the choirs of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word, which are comprised of seminarians and sisters, and use 4-part polyphony. We hope you like the recordings—if you want a particular track, just right-click and select "Save Target As" to save them to your computer.

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*Sacrosanctum Concilium, §116