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Modal Responsorial Psalms (Esguerra)
Modal Responsorial Psalms (Esguerra)
Bragers Kyriale (Organ Accompaniments)
Bragers Kyriale (Organ Accompaniments)
 

Sacred, Beautiful, & Universal • Purchase DVD • Watch Full Movie (60 minutes)
Announcement • preview • Trailer • Excerpt • Bonus Features • Dr. Mahrt

Colloquium XXI (2011) • 2011 Video • High Quality 2011 Video

Colloquium XX (2010)
Trailer • Interviews (1) • Interviews (2) • Maestro Scott Turkington • Maestro Wilko Brouwers

Additional Videos
Cor Jesu (Winter Intensive) • Christus Vincit (Winter Intensive) • Chironomy excerpt • Can You Tell The Difference? • Can Propers Replace Hymns At Mass? (cartoon) • Sacred Vs. Secular Music (cartoon) • 2008 Trailer (Vimeo)

 
00 • The Liturgy Is Not Disposable
Priests have expressed concern about throwing the Word of God into the garbage every few months. The Vatican II Hymnal contains the complete readings for Years ABC, the complete Graduale Propers, hundreds of beautiful hymns, and much more.
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01 • Brand New Latin Mass Hymnal
Complete Latin/English Readings & Propers for all Sundays & Holy Days (1962 Missal) • Complete Ordinaries for Solemn & Low Mass • 100+ Mass photographs taken in beautiful European Churches • All eighteen (18) Gregorian chant Masses from the Kyriale • Much more!
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02 • Oratory • Cardinal Newman's Room
Watershed assisted the Birmingham Oratory with media work leading up to the Papal visit and Beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Our documentary shorts provide online tours of the Oratory, including the Cardinal’s Room and Library as well as the parish church and its chapels.
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03 • Lenten Kyrie (Polyphonic)
Why not consider doing some Machaut or Dufay during Lent? Or how about Brudieu? Matthew J. Curtis has recorded more than 800 practice videos to help your choirs!
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04 • Mass for Three Voices (Polyphony)
Kevin Allen (2011) • Missa Rex Genitor • Polyphonic Mass Setting for Three Equal Voices • I Kyrie • II Gloria • III Credo • IV Sanctus • VI Agnus Dei • Thirty (30) free practice videos by Matthew J. Curtis
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05 • Joan Brudieu (†1591) • Easy Polyphonic Kyrie
This short Kyrie, based on a work by Joan Brudieu (†1591), has many things recommending it. It’s extremely short, easy to learn (especially with the practice videos we provide), involves the congregation in a meaningful way, contains beautiful polyphonic lines, and fits on just one, easily printable sheet of music!
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06 • Special Announcement: The Vatican II Hymnal
750 pages long • Complete Readings for all Sundays and Major Feasts (Years A, B, & C) • First Hymnal to contain complete texts for Sung Propers • 100+ pages of Mass Settings (Roman Missal, Third Edition) • Complete texts (Latin/English) for both forms of the Mass (Ordinary & Extraordinary) • Beautiful hymns, and much more!
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07 • Mass in honor of St. Edmund Jennings
St. Jennings was executed for being a Catholic priest. Seized whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of St. Swithun Wells, he was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house. His execution was particularly bloody. St. Swithun Wells was hanged immediately afterwards.
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08 • Mass Setting Honoring Saint Ralph Sherwin
This new Gregorian Chant Mass (with optional organ accompaniment) uses the new ICEL translation of the Roman Missal. We provide free practice videos, vocalist scores in modern and Gregorian notation, congregational booklets, and much more!
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09 • Simple Sacred Motets For SATB Choirs
Kevin Allen's brilliant new SATB collection of twelve (12) Sacred Motets that can be used all throughout the Liturgical year. 144 Practice videos by Matthew J. Curtis. Optional Psalm tones written out for each piece, in Latin & English.
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10 • New "Glory to God" in honor of St. Edmund Arrowsmith (†1628) • Roman Missal, Third Edition
Here is a newly-composed Gregorian Chant GLORIA in honor of Saint Edmund Arrowsmith (†1628). Please feel free to download the PDF organist scores, PDF vocalist scores (in both Modern and Gregorian notation). This setting uses the new ICEL translation of the Roman Missal.
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11 • I Sing of a Maiden • Kevin Allen DVD & CD
DVD includes a 30-minute interview with Kevin Allen. • 1. Salve Regina (Gregorian) 2. Salve Regina 3. Regina Caeli 4. Pater de Caelis (Organ) 5. Sub Tuum Praesidium (Gregorian) 6. Sub Tuum Praesidium 7. Spiritus Sancte Deus 8. Sancta Trinitas 9. Ave Regina Caelorum 10. Recordare (Gregorian) . . . AND MANY MORE!
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12 • Sacred Polyphony for Three Voices
A 70-page collection of polyphonic Motets that can be sung by the average parish choir! Although the pieces were designed for SSA or TTB choirs, they also work well for mixed choirs. Matthew has also recorded 56 free practice videos to help your choir members learn these beautiful pieces.
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13 • Gloria Setting (New Translation)
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father . . .
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14 • Kevin Allen's New Simple SATB Collection
If you have an SATB choir that would love a brand new collection of dignified, beautiful, not-too-difficult motets, you need to check out Kevin Allen's "Cantiones Sacrae Simplices." Vocal phenomenon Matthew J. Curtis has also recorded more than 144 practice videos which carefully instruct singers who do not read music well. All 144 training videos are free!
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15 • The Oratory Church And Prayer
Watershed assisted the Birmingham Oratory with media work leading up to the Papal visit and Beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Our documentary shorts provide online tours of the Oratory, including the Cardinal’s Room and Library as well as the parish church and its chapels.
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16 • This Will Change Lives (Musically)
Distinguished composer Kevin Allen has set twelve Eucharistic Motets for three voices. Although the pieces were designed for SSA or TTB choirs, they also work well for mixed choirs, and a special transposition table has been included for the ease of the choirmaster. Choirmasters and singers will appreciate the fact that these pieces are not difficult to sing.
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17 • Sacred, Beautiful & Universal Documentary
An hour-long documentary on Sacred Music. Watershed's cameras take you inside the 19th annual Sacred Music Colloquium, sponsored by the Church Music Association of America. The DVD includes a 45-minute, never-before-seen interview with Dr. William Mahrt, CMAA President & Stanford Professor.
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20 • Six-Voiced Agnus Dei by Morales
Corpus Christi Watershed provides special practice videos to help your choir members learn this beautiful, extremely short, rare, polyphonic Agnus Dei for six voices by Cristóbal de Morales (†1553). On these practice videos, each individual part is raised, making it easy to learn, even if you don't read music.
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21 • Kevin Allen Collection (Cantiones Sacrae II)
1. Oculi Omnium; 2. Sepulto Domino; 3. Intellige Clamorem; 4. Hodie Scietis; 5. Hoc Corpus; 6. Sanctificavit Moyses; 7. Jerusalem Quae Aedificatur; 8. Qui Meditabitur; 9. Juxta Vestibulum; 10. Scapulis Suis; 11. Gustate et Videte; 12. Ave Regina Caelorum; 13. Tota Pulchra Es Maria; 14. Tristis Est Anima Mea; and 15. Tantum Ergo.
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22 • Vatican II Hymnal
750 pages long • readings for all three liturgical years • beautiful hymns, including more than 100 pages of Communion hymns • Chabanel responsorial psalms, Garnier gospel acclamations, and much more!
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23 • GoupilChant • Free Gregorian Chant
The Rt. Rev'd Dom Hervé Courau, Abbat of Notre Dame de Triors, has authorised Watershed to post the Community's Gregorian chant recordings on our sites. For this gracious permission, sincere thanks to Father Abbat, also in the name of all those chanters who will profit from studying these beautiful sung prayers of the Church.
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25 • John Henry Cardinal Newman Archivium
John Henry Newman was born in London (2/21/1801) and died in Birmingham (8/11/1890). As Vicar of St Mary’s Oxford he exerted a profound spiritual influence on the Church of England. Through his extensive published writings and private correspondence he created a greater understanding of the Catholic Church.
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26 • Sacred Music Colloquium XX • CMAA Videos
Watershed was present at Colloquium XX, hosted by the Church Music Association of America. This video presents highlights from this amazing Sacred music conference.
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27 • St. Noël Chabanel Responsorial Psalms
This is part of our ongoing Liturgical work, and we are grateful to the many guest composers who generously donate their scores. In addition, we offer free resources for all the other parts of the Mass, and currently provide more than 6,000 free Liturgical scores.
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28 • Birmingham Oratory • Cardinal Newman
Corpus Christi Watershed was involved in assisting the Birmingham Oratory with media work leading up to the Beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman.
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30 • Famous Tantum Ergo now in print!
Kevin Allen's world-famous SATB "Tantum Ergo" is now in print. This piece has been enjoyed by many thousands of people, and is featured as the opening piece on "Sacred, Beautiful, & Universal: Colloquium XIX." Corpus Christi Watershed is proud to offer this Motet, along with fourteen other beautiful Motets, in "Cantiones Sacrae II."
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31 • Cantiones Sacrae Simplices (Kevin Allen)
1. Dóminus Dabit Benignitátem 2. Meditábor in Mandátis Tuis 3. Justítiae Dómini Rectae 4. Bonum Est Confitéri Dómino 5. Dómine Convértere 6. Ego Clamávi 7. Illúmina Fáciem Tuam 8. Unam Pétii a Dómino 9. Circuíbo et Immolábo 10. Panem de Caelo 11. Panis Quem Ego Dédero 12. Dómine Memorábor
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