Psalm Tone Accompaniments (C. Warwick Jordan)

Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013 ·

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* * Psalm Tone Accompaniments by C. Warwick Jordan (PDF)

• One hundred and fifty Harmonies for the Gregorian Tones : : with a few remarks as to their accompaniment • Author: C. Warwick Jordan : Mus. Doc. ; Fel. Col. Org. ; Organist and Director of the Choir of St. Stephen’s, Lewisham ; Hon. Org. to the London Gregorian Choral Association ; Professor of Organ at the Guildhall School of music, London, &c. • 13+ pages • Publishing Info: Nobody knows when this was published. LONDON & NEW YORK : Novello, Ewer and Co. •

“The old man carried the Child, but the Child led the old man.”

The Antiphon for First Vespers of the Feast of the Purification (February 2nd) is beautiful: “The old man carried the Child, but it was the Child who was guiding the old man. The Virgin bore the Child, and after child-bearing was virgin still: whom she bore, him she adored.” —Senex púerum portábat, puer autem senem regébat: quem Virgo péperit, et post partum Virgo permánsit: ipsum quem génuit, adorávit.

—Jeff Ostrowski

A quote from Fr. Valentine Young

I had one brother who was out of the church for quite a few years. When my mother was asked, “Did she worry about him?” I remember her answer: “I don’t worry about him; I just pray for him.” She left that in God’s hands. My mother did not live to see her son return to the Church; but he did, and I was able to celebrate his funeral Mass.

—Jeff Ostrowski

“Theoricam practicamque”

In a book printed by Solesmes Abbey in 1902, “Kyrie Rex Genitor” is also called Theoricam practicamque. Can anyone explain why?

And how does that translate into English? “Theoricam practicamque vitam regens Deus Pater.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

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