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Does Catholic liturgical music have a universal value?

In Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an opera we study in my music class, there is a funny and yet quite moving scene. The comic character, Papageno, uses the magic power of his bells to save the heroine, Princess Pamina, from the clutches of Monostatos and his slaves – caricatures of contemporary Turks. As they hear the music, they start dancing and singing like happy kids and all ends well. Pamina [...]