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PDF Download • “Saint Anne Line Mass”

Jeff Ostrowski · June 17, 2020

AST THURSDAY, I announced that I will be releasing five “MR3” Mass settings composed in 2011. For those who may have forgotten, MR3 was known as the “new translation” of the Mass: specifically, the English translation of Roman Missal, Third Edition. This “new” (2011) version sought to provide a more accurate translation of the Latin. I was encouraged to release these Mass settings based upon an astonishing telephone call I received—out of the blue—by one of the most respected choral conductors in the world. The first installment was the Saint Ralph Sherwin Mass setting.

Today, for the second installment, I release the SAINT ANNE LINE Mass setting:

*  PDF Download • ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENTS
—Organ Accompaniment for the “Our Father” is included.

*  PDF Download • Congregational Booklet
—Make sure to select “double sided” when printing.

Rehearsal videos some may find helpful:

KYRIE: (with organ) • (without organ)

GLORIA: (with organ) • (without organ)

SANCTUS: (with organ) • (without organ)

MYSTERIUM: (with organ) • (without organ)

AGNUS DEI: (with organ) • (without organ)

Many of my Mass settings use a “walking bass line.” For example, if you look at the harmonization for the “Our Father” in the accompaniment for Saint Anne Line, the bass line moves entirely by step, although occasionally octave displacement was necessary. If you have no idea what STEPWISE MOTION is all about, study these examples (taken at random from my Mass settings):

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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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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.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“As often as possible they gathered together the children of the village and sat them down in the cabin. Father Brébeuf would put on a surplice and biretta and chant the Our Father, which Father Daniel had translated into Huron rhymes, and the children would chant it after him. Next, he taught them the sign of the cross, the Hail Mary, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Commandments.”

— Biography of St. Jean de Brébeuf

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