Views from the Choir Loft

Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Lent

Jeff Ostrowski · February 21, 2015

RESPONSES FOR HIGH MASS

PDF Score (Singer) • printed on a single sheet

PROCESSIONAL • 824 The Painful Cross Of Christ (St. Thomas More)

No organ — sung in unison from Campion Hymnal.

ASPERGES

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • No Organist

INTROIT

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

KYRIE ELEISON • from Mass XVII

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

GRADUAL & TRACT • Mode III

PDF Score (Singer)

CREDO IV • Alternatim

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • No Organist

OFFRT. ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer)

OFFERTORY HYMN • Pange Lingua (from Liber Cantualis)

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • No Organist

SANCTUS • Morales & Plainsong

Score & Practice Videos

AGNUS

Polyphonic Verset by T. L. Victoria

COMM. ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

COMMUNION POLYPHONY

Engagé Section

Donné Section

With Gregorian chant: PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

RECESSIONAL HYMN • #829 Forty Days And Forty Nights

No organ. Sung from Campion Hymnal.

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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).

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

14 May 2022 • Gorgeous Book

If there is a more beautiful book than Abbat Pothier’s 1888 Processionale Monasticum, I don’t know what it might be. This gorgeous tome was today added to the Saint John Lalande Online Library. I wish I owned a physical copy.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Impelled by the weightiest of reasons, we are fully determined to restore Latin to its position of honor, and to do all We can to promote its study and use. The employment of Latin has recently been contested in many quarters, and many are asking what the mind of the Apostolic See is in this matter. We have therefore decided to issue the timely directives contained in this document, so as to ensure that the ancient and uninterrupted use of Latin be maintained and, where necessary, restored.”

— Pope John XXIII (22 February 1962)