“Te Deum” • Printable 4-Page Sheet

Jeff Ostrowski · December 31, 2017

OMEBODY WHO IS very smart at computers figured out how to “fit” the TE DEUM LAUDAMUS into a perfect little, single-page, very convenient booklet on 8.5×11 paper size. Don’t ask me how this booklet works, but it does. Just print using any “double sided” home printer. The English translation is by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles E. Spence. This is the Tonus Solemnis (“Solemn Tone”). The 1961 Graduale gives a total of three tones. The IMPRIMATUR is from 1953. Enjoy!

* PDF Download • TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (Booklet)
—It prints out as a perfect, single-page booklet!

From the olden days:

If you want it REALLY LARGE, here’s a printable file containing the TE DEUM:

* PDF Download • “Te Deum Laudamus”
—With English Translation by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles E. Spence.

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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).

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I’m still trying to decide how to visually present the “pure” Editio Vaticana scores, using what is (technically) the official rhythm of the Church. You can download my latest attempt, for this coming Sunday. Notice the “trochee trouble” as well as the old issue of neumes before the quilisma.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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

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)

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