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PDF Download • 17 Organ Accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina”

Jeff Ostrowski · June 4, 2020

TARTING this Saturday night, we no longer sing “Regina Cæli”—instead, we switch back to “Salve Regina.” That’s because FIRST VESPERS always happens the night before the Feast in question. (TRINITY SUNDAY is this coming Sunday, so “First Vespers” of Trinity Sunday happens on Saturday night.) The Salve Regina has a haunting “Solemn tone,” but most people sing the Simple tone. Veronica Brandt posted both versions in 2017.

The Nova Organi Harmonia website contains the “solemn” tone—but what about the “simple” tone? Here are organ accompaniments you might want to explore:

*  PDF Download • Version 1 (Jeff Ostrowski)
—Jeff tried to make this 2011 version as simple as humanly possible.

*  PDF Download • Version 2 (Father Green)
—Father Andrew Green, OSB, assisted Father Herman Koch with a 1942 hymnal.

*  PDF Download • Version 3 (Father Rossini)
—Father Carlo Rossini had a long career at Saint Paul’s Cathedral (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

*  PDF Download • Version 4 (Dom Desrocquettes DM)
—D Major Version • Dom Jean-Hébert Desroquettes was organist at Solesmes Abbey.

*  PDF Download • Version 5 (Dom Desrocquettes CM)
—C Major Version • Dom Jean-Hébert Desroquettes was organist at Solesmes Abbey.

*  PDF Download • Version 6 (Dom Murray)
—Dom Andrew Gregory Murray was organist at Downside Abbey.

*  PDF Download • Version 7 (Trappist Monk)
—A Trappist monk wrote this circa 1950.

*  PDF Download • Version 8 (Dr. Marier)
—Dr. Theodore Marier published this version in 1953.

*  PDF Download • Version 9 (Bragers DM)
—D Major Version • Achille P. Bragers studied at the Lemmens Institute (Belgium).

*  PDF Download • Version 10 (Bragers Eb)
—Eb Major Version • Achille P. Bragers studied at the Lemmens Institute (Belgium).

*  PDF Download • Version 11 (Giulio Bas)
—Julius Bas was engaged by Solesmes Abbey to compose accompaniments for the entire Editio Vaticana.

*  PDF Download • Version 12 (Henri Potiron)
—Henri Potiron was choirmaster of Sacred Heart Basilica (Paris) and taught at the Gregorian Institute.

Additional Versions:

*  PDF Download • Malton Boyce (1914)

*  PDF Download • Nicola A. Montani (1920s)

*  PDF Download • Dom Jean Hébert Desrocquettes (unknown)

*  PDF Download • Father Percy Jones (1952)

*  PDF Download • Dr. Eugène Lapierre (1953)

*  PDF Download • Professor Patrick Russill (1998)
—Reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the London Oratory.

Note: The excellent accompaniment
by Professor Russill comes from
The Catholic Hymn Book
(Gracewing—Fowler Wright).

I’m thinking of assembling organ accompaniments for all four Marian antiphons (Alma Redemptoris Mater; Ave Regina Caelorum; Regina Caeli; Salve Regina); please let me know—in the Facebook combox—if you would appreciate such a post. Thank you!

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

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Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Tagged With: Gregorian Chant Accompaniments, Marian Antiphons Gregorian, Salve Regina Organ Accompaniment Last Updated: November 17, 2020

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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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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
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If there is a more beautiful book than Abbat Pothier’s 1888 Processionale Monasticum, I don’t know what it might be. This gorgeous tome was today added to the Saint John Lalande Online Library. I wish I owned a physical copy.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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