Views from the Choir Loft

Musical Resources • Low Sunday (1962 Missal)

Jeff Ostrowski · April 3, 2016

RESPONSES FOR HIGH MASS

PDF Score (Singer) • printed on a single sheet

PROCESSIONAL

Organist.

VIDI AQUAM

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

INTROIT • Sung by the men.

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

KYRIE ELEISON

The new “Kyrie” is #3661 and #3579 and is mixed with this score.

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

We will sing #3610.

GRADUAL & ALLELUIA

During Eastertide, there’s a special Alleluia.

We sing #3524 with the verses which you don’t need to practice.

CREDO IV • Alternatim

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

Men need to learn #3445 ASAP.

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer)

OFFERTORY HYMN

“Omni Die” • Score for Organist & Choir

And you need to learn #3473, “Hymn to the Trinity.”

SANCTUS & HOSANNA

We have been singing the “Hosanna” section from #3496

AGNUS DEI

The current setting lacks rehearsal videos.

Please be learning #3379.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

COMMUNION POLYPHONY

“Jesu Dulcis Memoria” is number #4428.

With added verses.

RECESSIONAL HYMN • #841 Christ The Lord Is Ris’n Today

From the Campion Hymnal. • Here’s how the organist version looks in the Campion hymnal.

PRAYER WITH THE CHOIR (taken from the CAMPION HYMNAL) :

810 Endings Collects CAMPION MISSAL

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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).

22 April 2021 • SATB Plainsong?

In an emergency, we pull out random hymns from the Brébeuf hymnal. The Brébeuf choral supplement has every single verse—every single verse—written out, which makes reading SATB a breeze. Last Sunday, we pulled out an Easter hymn which is a mix between plainsong and metrical hymnody…and I think this live recording came out nicely! Please see whether you agree.

—Jeff Ostrowski

22 April 2021 • ICTUS ALERT

My friends, for the record, this coming Sunday has something which is pretty rare. It is an example of Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes adding an ictus marking to their previous (1908) version of the Graduale Romanum. You can examine before and after. Do I feel better, having pointing this out? I absolutely do…

—Jeff Ostrowski

Can You Spare 33 Seconds?

Here’s an audio excerpt (33 seconds) of a setting for Kyrie VIII which was recorded live last Sunday at our parish in Los Angeles. The setting (“Missa de Angelis”) is by composer Richard Rice, and you can download the free PDF if you click here and scroll to the bottom. I think Richard’s composition is marvelous. I missed a few notes on the organ, but I’ll get them right next time.

—Jeff Ostrowski

The representative Protestant collection, entitled “Hymns, Ancient and Modern”—in substance a compromise between the various sections of conflicting religious thought in the Establishment—is a typical instance. That collection is indebted to Catholic writers for a large fractional part of its contents. If the hymns be estimated which are taken from Catholic sources, directly or imitatively, the greater and more valuable part of its contents owes its origin to the Church.

— Orby Shipley (1884)