Introit • Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity • Free Download

Richard J. Clark · June 8, 2017

AST YEAR, I was honored to have been commissioned a new setting of the Introit for the first Mass of Fr. Patrick Fiorillo. This took place on the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. The setting is in English and composed for SATB, organ, schola/cantor, and congregation.

You may read about his first Mass here—a true model of singing the Mass in the Novus Ordo. You may download the score and listen to a live recording of the Introit from Rev. Fiorillo’s first Mass:

FREE DOWNLOAD:
PDF • Blessed Be the Holy Trinity • Introit
for Schola, SATB, Organ, Congregation

LISTEN HERE:
MP3 • Blessed Be the Holy Trinity • Introit

Bridgette Wargovich directed the extraordinary choir. Fr. Michael Ruminski from the Diocese of Hartford served as organist. Corey Bassett-Tirrell, a seminarian at Pope Saint John XXXIII Seminary was the cantor.

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About Richard J. Clark

Richard J. Clark is the Director of Music of the Archdiocese of Boston and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.—(Read full biography).

30 November 2020 • “Case in point”

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

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)

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