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Finding the “perfect” accompaniment for hymns can be challenging. Here is my attempt.
Veronica Brandt has posted a beautiful antiphon reputed to keep the plague away; updated to correct a semitone variance in the first copy she made • The Cantuale Romano-Seraphicum from 1951 is mentioned • Free download of “Stella Caeli” along with the Litany of Our Lady+
Monsignor Higinio Anglés, a Spanish priest and musicologist, was director of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music.
Any Christian who tries to make a difference in the sacred music world must expect to face opposition and scorn. Today, the attacks will frequently come from “internet cowards” who hide behind false names, fake biographies, anonymous blogs, and so forth. Falsehoods and calumnies from anonymous sources are impossible to debunk—because recognition is what they […]
Have you heard of the “People’s Mass Book,” published by Omer Westendorf in 1964?
Cardinal Dolan at Mass
Guarding the Sense of Sight so as to Promote Participation
Some of you may not know, but in seminaries and houses of religious, the 150 psalms are still recited or sung every month.
Pope Francis was right to allow the Pre-1955 Holy Week. Father Krisman is incorrect to suggest it will “hurt people.”
Some believe Stevenson was the greatest musicologist of all time, but I believe he made an error here.
“Juan Sánchez, first admitted in June, 1529, was the most flamboyant member of the generally hot-tempered Spanish section of the choir. In January, 1540, not wishing to sing the part allotted him by the director, he hit him “in the presence of the Sacrament,” thus creating a “very great scandal.” He was imprisoned, but the […]
There were about 32 singers: “A singer need not be in holy orders but must be a man of honor and of good repute. When a new member is proposed, his character shall first be examined, and then he shall be brought to a musical examination conducted by the choir members themselves. The first requisite […]
An extremely rare hymnal compiled by the Most Rev’d Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio.
Once we realize how high that standard for accepting a chorister is, it becomes easier to understand the boy’s rapid musical progress in the choir.
During his final year of theological studies at the seminary, Pope Pius X served as choirmaster to the seminarians! While serving as bishop of Mantua, he founded a Schola Cantorum and personally taught courses in sacred music and Cantus Gregorianus. Fascinating!
