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Views from the Choir Loft

PDF Download • “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord” (Responsorial Psalm)

Jeff Ostrowski · October 13, 2020

HEN I COMPOSE settings of the Responsorial Psalm according to the method of the Chabanel Psalms, I assume that everyone will automatically know how they are intended to be performed. However, this is rather silly—because how can they know what’s inside my mind? I was recently asked to compose Responsorial Psalms for the First Mass of a (soon-to-be-ordained) Australian priest, and I thought it might be good to explain explicitly the correct method. I composed a brand new Chabanel tone, which uses a “pedal tone” on C-Natural in the Tenor:

Here is the score, which contains written instructions:

*  PDF Download • “Taste and See” (CHABANEL)
—Responsorial Psalm (Ordinary Form); Votive Mass the Sacred Heart.

*  PDF Download • Alleluia (FATHER LE MOYNE)
—Alleluia Verse (Ordinary Form); Votive Mass the Sacred Heart.


As you can see, there are six options when it comes to Votive Masses for the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Ordinary Form:

*  PDF Download • Responsorial Psalm Options
—From the Ordo Lectionum Missae.

The priest made his choice, and I followed his request. For the record, I think the Missale Romanum Cum Lectionibus Ad Usum Fidelium made an error. Do you agree?

The United States of America Lectionary, on the other hand, seems to have done it correctly (as far as I can tell):

*  PDF Download • Page from the USA Lectionary

In the Ordinary Form, Anglophone countries each have different translations—which is insane. That’s one reason the Extraordinary Form is experiencing exponential growth. After all, why must Australia have a different Lectionary than the United States? Why must the United States have a different Lectionary than Canada? I am told Great Britain and South Africa have separate lectionaries, also. I don’t know about Singapore, Hong Kong, or the Philippines. To make matters worse, the USA has an “NAB” Lectionary which doesn’t match any Bible—and they are constantly making tiny changes here and there, even though they are not allowed to.

If the Responsorial Psalm is sung, the version from Australia (provided above) is approved for use in the dioceses of the United States of America. The same is the true of the Ted Marier Psalter; it can be sung (but not read) in dioceses of the United States of America. When it comes to “approved collections” for the United States, it’s important to remember that the USCCB overruled the GIRM in 2012 with regard to these approvals. They were challenged on this so-called “tacit approval,” but they held their ground.

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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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    Vespers Booklet (4th Sunday of Lent)
    The organ accompaniment booklet (24 pages) which I created for the 4th Sunday of Lent (“Lætare Sunday”) may now be downloaded, for those who desire such a thing.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Vespers Booklet, 3rd Sunday of Lent
    The organ accompaniment I created for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (“Extraordinary Form”) may now be downloaded, if anyone is interested in this.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Weeping For Joy! (We Hope!)
    Listening to this Easter Alleluia—an SATB arrangement I made twenty years ago based on the work of Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel—one of our readers left this comment: “I get tears in my eyes each time I sing to this hymn.” I hope this person is weeping for joy!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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On 12 March 1908, Feast of St. Gregory the Great, the complete publication of the “Graduale” was issued by the Vatican Press. That very day, Dom Pothier solemnly presented the first copy to the Holy Father. Pius X wished to be the first to see the new book; he opened it at random, at page 128 of the supplement “pro aliquibus locis”—the Introit of the new Feast of Our lady of Lourdes. The Pope sang it with perfect taste to the last note.

— A witness of the papal audience writing circa 1915

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