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Archives for July 2017

Jeff Ostrowski · July 11, 2017

Does Polyphony “Fit” Ordinary Form Masses?

Can you hear the difference? Listen closely to the third section.

Corpus Christi Watershed · July 10, 2017

PDF Download • (2,292 Pages) Choral Music in Latin & English by Richard Rice

A stunning announcement by Richard Rice!

Fr. David Friel · July 9, 2017

JPII: “The Roman Church Has Special Obligations to Latin”

This vision of the Church’s relationship with Latin is quite different from the perspective held by many post-conciliar liturgists.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 6, 2017

Symposium 2017 Was A Spectacular Success!

“I cannot say enough good things about my experience at the symposium. Words cannot express just how wonderful it was to be there, and how much I brought back with me.”

Andrew Leung · July 6, 2017

The Most Sensitive Musical Instrument

“Have you thanked God for this failure already?”

Fr. David Friel · July 2, 2017

Formation in the Liturgy

Remarkable Speech by a High School Valedictorian

Richard J. Clark · July 1, 2017

On Emptiness, Wisdom, and Fortune • Music and Discernment

Music and Discernment

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PDF Download • Trinity Sunday (22 pages)

Feel free to download this Organ Accompaniment Booklet for Trinity Sunday (Second Vespers). Notice how the modes progress by number. Psalm 1 is mode 1; Psalm 2 is mode 2; Psalm 3 is mode 3; Psalm 4 is mode 4; Psalm 5 is mode 5. I am told by an expert that other feasts (such as Corpus Christi) are likewise organized by mode, and it’s called a “numerical office.”

—Jeff Ostrowski
10 June 2022 • “Official” rhythm of plainsong

I continue to search for the most beautiful way to present the “pure” Editio Vaticana scores. (Technically, the “pure” rhythm of the official edition is what everyone is supposed to use.) You can download my latest attempt, which is the Introit for this coming Sunday: Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Because this is not an ancient feast, the Introit had to be adapted (perhaps around 750AD). Prior Johner says the adaptation is “not an entirely happy one.”

—Jeff Ostrowski
7 June 2022 • FEEDBACK

From Chelan, Washington: “CCWatershed is a God-sent resource that I can’t function without! Such great work by the team to bring beauty back to our liturgy!” From Gainesville, Florida: “I am so appreciative of the work, of my brothers and sisters in music!” From Troutman, North Carolina: “Keep up the excellent work in service of the Liturgy!”

—Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“Iconographic tradition has theologically interpreted the manger and the swaddling cloths in terms of the theology of the Fathers. The child stiffly wrapped in bandages is seen as prefiguring the hour of his death: from the outset, he is the sacrificial victim, as we shall see more closely when we examine the reference to the first-born. The manger, then, was seen as a kind of altar.”

— Pope Benedict XVI (2012)

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