Views from the Choir Loft

Musical Resources • Second Sunday after Epiphany

Jeff Ostrowski · January 15, 2015

RESPONSES FOR HIGH MASS (single sheet)

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PROCESSIONAL HYMN • As With Gladness Men Of Old

PDF Score (Singer) • Organist

ASPERGES ME

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

PRAYERS AFTER ASPERGES ME

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INTROIT

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Video (Singer)

KYRIE ELEISON • from Mass XII

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

GLORIA • from Mass III

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

GRADUAL & ALLELUIA

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

CREDO IV

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON

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OFFERTORY POLYPHONY • Verdelot

The score & audio files for practice can be found HERE.

SANCTUS

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

Please learn the Morales Polyphonic Extensions as soon as possible.

AGNUS DEI

Polyphonic Verset by T. L. Victoria

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

COMMUNION POLYPHONY & HYMNUS • Crudelis Herodes

PDF Score (Singer)

PRACTICE FILES for ADDITIONAL VERSET by Lhoumeau

Audio Practice (SOPR) • Audio Practice (ALTO) • Audio Practice (BASS)

RECESSIONAL HYMN • Song of Thankfulness and Praise

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

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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).

Don’t You Agree About These?

If you want to make Jeff Ostrowski really happy, send him an email with effusive praise about the individual voice recordings for hymn #296. [Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass] They came out dazzlingly sensational, don't you agree?

—Jeff Ostrowski

Choral Vowels? Yes? No?

Here's a live recording of one of the choral “warm-up” exercises my choir enjoys. It was taken during our rehearsal on 27 January 2023. It’s good to make sure each chord is perfectly in tune and balanced before moving to the next one. That only happens when each singer has the correct vowel. If you like, you can freely download that vocal exercise.

—Jeff Ostrowski

26 January 2023 • FEEDBACK

“Jeff, I wanted to personally thank you for your spiritual witness at the Symposium & often blogs that you write too. Praying that prayer in the mornings My God, my Father and my all (by Cardinal Merry Del Val), mentioning saints’ stories of Brébeuf, Jogues, John Vianney, monks who fought in WWII, their hard work in spite of terrible conditions, their relentless zeal for the faith, their genuine love for the laypeople they served, etc. Overall though—more than anything concrete I can point to that you did or said—it was your demeanor at the Symposium. I could tell you really absolutely love and believe the Catholic Faith. You don’t get that everywhere, even in Church circles. And your humility is what then makes that shine even brighter. It is super inspiring! God is working through you probably way more than you know.”

—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