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Archives for March 2019

Fr. David Friel · March 31, 2019

Sacred Music US • Website for Fr. Weber’s Resources

A website exists to disseminate Fr. Samuel Weber’s sacred music resources

Veronica Brandt · March 30, 2019

How to Install Compline in Your Home

A first step to planting the timeless prayer of the Universal Church in your home. Plus a four part setting of the prayer just because.

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Dr. Gregory Hamilton · March 27, 2019

Beauty in the Service of the Lord

“Recently, playing a prelude before a Mass, I thought of the preeminence of beauty in our faith.” —Dr. Hamilton

Fr. David Friel · March 26, 2019

Flash Mob • Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria”

A special celebration of the Annunciation 2019

Fr. David Friel · March 24, 2019

New Musical Settings for the Blessing of the Holy Oils

The USCCB has provided freely downloadable versions of the musical settings of these newly translated texts.

Veronica Brandt · March 23, 2019

Upgrading to a Missa Cantata for Singers

One of those fantastic diagrams of the structure of the Mass, expostulated in under 9 minutes.

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Richard J. Clark · March 22, 2019

Funerals: The Most Challenging Pastoral Responsibility

The centrality of Christ in the Funeral Mass is a priceless gem, a lifeline urgently needed in grief.

Jeff Ostrowski · March 19, 2019

A Short Piece We’re Singing For Lent

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with one of the smartest Catholic priests alive.

Fr. David Friel · March 17, 2019

The Lorica of St. Patrick

A fifth-century hymn preserved in an eleventh-century manuscript

Veronica Brandt · March 16, 2019

A German Franciscan Soldier who Sang

Excerpts from the life of Fr Gereon Goldmann – bombs, concentration camps, espionage and Gregorian chant.

Jeff Ostrowski · March 14, 2019

“Sarum Rite” • Did it exist? What is it?

“To contrast Ancient Sarum with Modern Roman is absurd.” —Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1912)

Jeff Ostrowski · March 13, 2019

Offensive Music in Germany • Ash Wednesday (2019)

Have you ever seen a liturgical “instrument” like this?

Fr. David Friel · March 10, 2019

Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast

Dedicated to exploring the teaching and vision of the Church on the topic of liturgical music

Veronica Brandt · March 9, 2019

Every Church Musician Deserves Music Lessons

In which Veronica describes some unexpected benefits of taking up music lessons.

Jeff Ostrowski · March 7, 2019

“The New Mass” • Discussed by Michael Davies, Malachi Martin, Msgr. Champlin, and William F. Buckley

Fascinating debate recorded 22 April 1980.

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    “Music List” • 15th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (13 July 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. As always, the Responsorial Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, and propers for this Sunday are also provided at the the feasts website.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    This coming Sunday—13 July 2025—is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). All the chants have been conveniently assembled and posted at the feasts website. The OFFERTORY, Ad Te Levávi, is particularly beautiful.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music Director Job • $80,000 per year
    Our readers will be interested in this job offering for Music Director at Saint Adalbert’s Basilica, located 40 minutes from where I live. My pastor was recently elevated to this basilica. He is offering $80,000 per year, plus benefits. I’m told Saint Adalbert’s Basilica is utterly gorgeous and contains one of America’s most magnificent pipe organs. It would be fantastic to have a colleague nearby!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Pope Pius XII Hymnal?
    Have you ever heard of the Pope Pius XII Hymnal? It’s a real book, published in the United States in 1959. Here’s a sample page so you can verify with your own eyes it existed.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
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Random Quote

“In all this mediaeval religious poetry there is much that we could not use now. Many of the hymns are quite bad, many are frigid compositions containing futile tricks, puns, misinterpreted quotations of Scripture, and twisted concepts, whose only point is their twist. But there is an amazing amount of beautiful poetry that we could still use. If we are to have vernacular hymns at all, why do we not have translations of the old ones?”

— Fr. Adrian Fortescue (d. 1923)

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