CeciliasList

Most of the music I hear in cathedrals and parish churches in England is by white men.

It's not that the people choosing the music don't want to be inclusive: it's that they're also considering the season, the readings, the type of service, the instrumentation and voices available, whether they need to use a separate sheet or can stick to the hymnal, how much other music the choir is learning that month, and so on and so forth. They're often doing this on a tight schedule with constrained resources; looking for something different is often a luxury, not the default that it should be. I know this because I've done that work myself.

Cecilia's List will be a lectionary-oriented directory that helps people who are choosing the music in their churches to include more music composed by women and members of other under-represented communities. My aim is to supplement, rather than replace, existing resources.