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Rehearsal videos • Missa “Ave Maris Stella” (Victoria)

Jeff Ostrowski · May 22, 2018

ATHER Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Missa Ave Maris Stella will be sung at the final Mass of the Sacred Music Symposium. CCWatershed has commissioned rehearsal videos for everything that will be sung—but not all participants utilize them. Some prefer to learn their music by singing through the parts silently in their head. 1 Others use the piano. All methods are perfectly acceptable, because each participant has a different level of expertise. By the way, there are still a few spots available; we have currently accepted 75.

Over the next few months, I will release all the rehearsal videos.

Today, we begin with the Kyrie:

REHEARSAL VIDEOS for each individual voice and PDF score await you at #89425.

Many readers won’t click on that link (#89425)—depriving themselves of the PDF score. I’m saddened by this.

Other readers will avoid clicking that link (#89425)—and consequently miss the opportunity to have fun singing along with individual voice parts.

THOSE WHO ATTEND Sacred Music Symposium 2018 will be taught how we make rehearsal videos such as the one above. They will also have an opportunity to meet Fr. Josef Bisig, a truly legendary figure in the Catholic Church. They will also sing Solemn Vespers each night. These are just some of the marvelous opportunities found at the Symposium.



NOTES FROM THIS ARTICLE:

1   For myself, I don’t use recordings to learn music. Neither did most of the people who studied at the Conservatory with me. Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms I learned sitting in a doctor’s office—and I would not have been able to sight-read a chromatic piece like that. However, I suspect some of our readers could perform even a difficult piece like that instantly, without looking in advance. Each person has a different level of skill. The logical approach is to accept this…and plan accordingly.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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