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1914 Springer “Psalmi in Notis”

Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

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* * 1914 Springer “Psalmi in Notis” (PDF)

• PSALMI : : VESPERARUM ET COMPLETORII : : Pro omnibus Dominicis et festis duplicibus ac pro “officio defunctorum” : : juxta editionem typicam vaticanam : : . . . : : Editio Secunda • Author: Max Springer : : “in quibus concordantiae verborum et melodiae in clausulis (mediationibus et terminationibus) diligenter providit MAXIMILIANUS SPRINGER” • Publishing Information: 1914 : : Ratisbonae et Romae : : Sumptibus et typis Friderici Pustet : : S. Sedis Apostolicae et S. Rituum Congregationis Typographi : : Neo Eboraci et Cincinnati : : Apud Fr. Pustet & Co. : : 1914 • Has some very interesting versions of Psalm tones (just like Gajard’s 1934 Monastic Antiphonal). “Pure Vaticana” . . . naturally. •

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19 May 2022 • “Trochee Trouble”

I’m still trying to decide how to visually present the “pure” Editio Vaticana scores, using what is (technically) the official rhythm of the Church. You can download my latest attempt, for this coming Sunday. Notice the “trochee trouble” as well as the old issue of neumes before the quilisma.

—Jeff Ostrowski

16 May 2022 • Harmonized Chant?

This year’s upcoming Sacred Music Symposium will demonstrate several ways to sing the CREDO at Mass. This is because—for many parishes—to sing a full-length polyphonic CREDO by Victoria or Palestrina is out of the question. Therefore, we show options that are halfway between plainsong and polyphony. You can hear my choir rehearsing a section that sounds like harmonized plainsong.

—Jeff Ostrowski

14 May 2022 • “Pure” Vatican Edition

As readers know, my choir has been singing from the “pure” Editio Vaticana. That is to say, the official rhythm which—technically—is the only rhythm allowed by the Church. I haven’t figured out how I want the scores to look, so in the meantime we’ve been using temporary scores that look like this. Stay tuned!

—Jeff Ostrowski

“Only against this background, of the effective denial of the authority of Trent, can one understand the bitterness of the struggle against allowing the celebration of Mass according to the 1962 Missal after the liturgical reform. The possibility of so celebrating constitutes the strongest, and thus (for them) the most intolerable contradiction of the opinion of those who believe that the faith in the Eucharist, as formulated by Trent, has lost its validity.”

— Cardinal Ratzinger, 2001