“How Do I Use Gregorio? How Do I Use GABC?”

Jeff Ostrowski · June 8, 2013

ANY MUSICIANS DESIRE to create beautiful Gregorian chant scores, but have no idea how. The answer is simple: use Gregorio. This free program allows each of us to effortlessly create fantastic musical scores with GABC.

To prove how easy it is, I created the following Gregorio Training Video while holding a baby!

Gratitude is owed to Veronica Brandt, Richard Chonak, and Aristotle Esguerra. By the way, if you’re too lazy to copy down the URL links in the video, here they are:

* * Gregorio Interface • English Lyrics • 1-Page Summary • Latin Lyrics

Wasn’t that an extremely easy video to follow? If you disagree, please let me know in the combox.

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Los Angeles.—(Read full biography).

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The Solesmes rhythmic markings, which often contradict the official rhythm, do such damage to the antiphons of the Divine Office that—in my humble opinion—they should be abandoned. (In reality, this will never happen.) But sometimes, they do great damage to the melody of the Graduale Romanum, and I would offer the Offertory for the 1st Sunday of Advent as a “case in point.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

27 November 2020 • ACCENTS

Certain Latin words are constantly mispronounced. For example, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is supposed to be pronounced “Cármina” but people frequently pronounce it as “Carmína”—wrong! Another example: Nova organi harmonia is supposed to be pronounced “órgani” but many people erroneously say “orgáni.” A somewhat tricky word is incipit. In Latin, it would be “íncipit” while some believe it has entered the English language as “incípit”—but I’m not convinced…

—Jeff Ostrowski

20 November 2020 • Epiphany Sequence?

A very interesting Missale from 1759AD has a Sequence for the Epiphany, but I don’t know where one could find the musical notation. The Seqence is called: “Prompto Gentes Animo Ferte Nunc Altissimo Honorem Et Gloriam.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

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