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Organ Accompaniments for the Campion Hymnal

St. Edmund Campion Missal and Hymnal · July 1, 2013

Remember! This page is from 2013.

ORGANIST VOL. 1   •   388 pages, spiral bound
— Complete Kyriale   •   $37.99

Contents:   Three (3) different harmonizations of the Ordinarium Missae are included in our book:
1.) Achille P. Bragers, LOW KEY;
2.) Carlo Rossini, MIDDLE KEY;
3.) Nova Organi Harmonia, HIGH KEY.

For purposes of comparison:   Other merchants sell the Bragers Kyriale (alone!) for $38.


ORGANIST VOL. 2   •   374 pages, spiral bound
— Hymns & Simple Chants   •   $44.95

Contents:   1.) Organ accompaniments for all the Hymns in Campion Hymnal;   2.) Additional transpositions and alternate harmonizations for many of the hymns;   3.) Information on interpreting the Vatican Edition rhythm;   4.) Organ accompaniments for the “Simple Chants” in the Campion Hymnal.

For purposes of comparison:   GIA sells their “Gather Comprehensive” accompaniment book for $105.   OCP sells their “Journeysongs Third Edition” accompaniment book for $110.   GIA sells their “Worship Fourth Edition” accompaniment book for $115.

To sing SATB versions of the hymns, please use the harmonizations provided in the Organist Edition. Permission is hereby given to xerox copy individual pages, as long as such copies are used in accordance with this goal (and not shared for any other purpose).

A NOTE ABOUT HYMN HARMONIZATIONS :

The “perfect” hymn harmonization does not exist. Harmonizations must be chosen according to: 1.) skill of the organist; 2.) acoustic of the Church; 3.) type of choir; 4.) needs of the congregation; 5.) amount of verses to be sung; 6.) time of day (lower for morning, higher for evening); and a thousand other important considerations. For this reason, we included the “standard” harmonization for each hymn. We also included transpositions for more than half of the hymns (based on range and tessitura, which, incidentally, are not the same thing). Furthermore, we included alternate harmonizations when this seemed appropriate.

 

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—Jeff Ostrowski
19 January 2021 • Confusion over feasts

For several months, we have discussed the complicated history of the various Christmas feasts: the Baptism of the Lord, the feast of the Holy Family, the Epiphany, and so forth. During a discussion, someone questioned my assertion that in some places Christmas had been part of the Epiphany. As time went on, of course, the Epiphany came to represent only three “manifestations” (Magi, Cana, Baptism), but this is not something rigid. For example, if you look at this “Capital E” from the feast of the Epiphany circa 1350AD, you can see it portrays not three mysteries but four—including PHAGIPHANIA when Our Lord fed the 5,000. In any event, anyone who wants proof the Epiphany used to include Christmas can read this passage from Dom Prosper Guéranger.

—Jeff Ostrowski
6 January 2021 • Anglicans on Plainsong

A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier’s Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): “No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded.” They are absolutely correct.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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