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PDF Download • Immac. Conception Booklet

Jeff Ostrowski · December 8, 2017

3683 Immaculate ELOW, you will find the booklet for the Immaculate Conception, which I first posted several years ago. We had a “Schola Mass” at FSSP.la today—nothing but plainsong—which we do when our choir of 40 voices gets a day off. I printed the booklets, but made some last minute changes at the Church. We substituted for Mass II a mixture of Mass IV and Mass X, which was easily done since the Campion Hymnals contain the full KYRIALE. We also ended up using the Chants Abrégés version of the Gradual, which was easily accomplished since those are in the Goupil Graduals.

But it’s still nice to have these booklets (even when we are inspired to make last-minute changes) because we know that no matter what happens, we can sing the entire Mass from the booklet:

    * *  IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (Booklet)

It struck me today—while singing the Introit—how powerful it is to have the English underneath each Latin word. (This is done for all the scores at the René Goupil website.) My knowledge of Latin is halfway decent, but while singing the notes I’m so glad to look under each word for a reminder. The Introit for today is not extremely familiar to me, but the musical phrases make a lot more sense when we understand their meaning.

In that booklet, you’ll see a splendid piece with these words:

He whom the whole world cannot contain was enclosed in thy womb…

We sang it during the Offertory incensation.

P.S.

The priest who gave the homily said this feast was originally called “the feast of the Conception of Saint Anne.”

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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).

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One of our most popular downloads has proven to be the organ accompaniment to “The Monastery Hymnal” (131 pages). This book was compiled, arranged, and edited by Achille P. Bragers, who studied at the Lemmensinstituut (Belgium) about thirty years before that school produced the NOH. Bragers might be considered an example of Belgium “Stile Antico” whereas Flor Peeters and Jules Van Nuffel represented Belgium “Prima Pratica.” You can download the hymnal by Bragers at this link.

—Jeff Ostrowski
15 February 2021 • To Capitalize…?

In the Introit for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, there is a question regarding whether to capitalize the word “christi.” The Vulgata does not, because Psalm 27 is not specifically referring to Our Lord, but rather to God’s “anointed one.” However, Missals tend to capitalize it, such as the official 1962 Missal and also a book from 1777 called Missel de Paris. Something tells me Monsignor Knox would not capitalize it.

—Jeff Ostrowski
15 February 2021 • “Sung vs. Spoken”

We have spoken quite a bit about “sung vs. spoken” antiphons. We have also noted that the texts of the Graduale Romanum sometimes don’t match the Missal texts (in the Extraordinary Form) because the Mass Propers are older than Saint Jerome’s Vulgate, and sometimes came from the ITALA versions of Sacred Scripture. On occasion, the Missal itself doesn’t match the Vulgate—cf. the Introit “Esto Mihi.” The Vulgate has: “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in domum refúgii…” but the Missal and Graduale Romanum use “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in locum refúgii…” The 1970s “spoken propers” use the traditional version, as you can see.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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“Chants closely related to the readings should, of course, be appropriately transferred for use with these readings. For pastoral reasons also there is an option regarding the chants for the Proper of Seasons: namely, as circumstances suggest, to replace the text proper to a day with another text belonging to the same season.”

— Ordo Cantus Missae (1971)

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