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This article focuses on the decadence experienced by Spanish sacred music since the beginning of 19th century, coinciding with the outbreak of the Independence War. This decline was aggravated by the application of successive disentailments by the liberal governments and the signing of the 1851 Concordato. To remedy this situation, various reform projects and initiatives were proposed by authors such as Eslava, Barbieri, Pedrell or Olmeda, with the final objective of revitalizing religious music in Spain and the musical chapels that supported it: such projects, which gained considerable momentum thanks to the Cecilianist movement, constitute the prolegomenon of the promulgation of the Motu Proprio by Pope Pius X in 1903.