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Archives for November 2020

Keven Smith · November 30, 2020

How to Help Children Match Pitch (part I)

It all starts with teaching your kids to sing in head tone. Here are some ideas on how to do it.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 30, 2020

30 November 2020 • “Case in point”

The Solesmes rhythmic markings, which often contradict the official rhythm, do such damage to the antiphons of the Divine Office that—in my humble opinion—they should be abandoned. (In reality, this will never happen.) But sometimes, they do great damage to the melody of the Graduale Romanum, and I would offer the Offertory for the 1st […]

Jeff Ostrowski · November 30, 2020

The “Winking” Part • Where’d Father Lasance Get It?

A curious translation which Father Lasance “borrowed” for the Ash Wednesday Introit…

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Fr. David Friel · November 30, 2020

A Whale of a Pulpit

An unusual genre of ambo architecture

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 29, 2020

Extremely Rare! • Pages from the “Directorium Chori” (Solesmes Abbey, 1864)

The entire edition was destroyed in a fire (circa 1866) except four rare copies.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 27, 2020

27 November 2020 • ACCENTS

Certain Latin words are constantly mispronounced. For example, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is supposed to be pronounced “Cármina” but people frequently pronounce it as “Carmína”—wrong! Another example: Nova organi harmonia is supposed to be pronounced “órgani” but many people erroneously say “orgáni.” A somewhat tricky word is incipit. In Latin, it would be “íncipit” while […]

Jeff Ostrowski · November 25, 2020

Feast of the Holy Family • Where did it come from?

The Consilium asked (15 March 1965): “Is it pleasing that the feast of the Holy Family be suppressed?” • Discussion of the First Sunday After Epiphany; the Feast of the Holy Name; the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord; the two (2) instances of different “Jubilate Deo” Offertories which repeat; “Abhinc Duos Annos” (23 October 1913); and many other items+

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 24, 2020

“Homily — 1st Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM

All of us are now closer to our moment of death than we were last year or in any time in the past.

Lucas Tappan · November 23, 2020

Inspiration for Organ Improvisation

Organ improvisation is on the mind of many organists these days as they cope in the absence of choirs and other musicians.

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Keven Smith · November 23, 2020

St. Matthew, St. Jane, and the End of a Liturgical Year

St. Jane de Chantal’s Prayer of Abandonment can help you make peace with a liturgical year that was not what any of us expected.

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Fr. David Friel · November 22, 2020

Resurgam and the Month of All Souls

Thoughts on Death from Emily Dickinson

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 20, 2020

20 November 2020 • Epiphany Sequence?

A very interesting Missale from 1759AD has a Sequence for the Epiphany, but I don’t know where one could find the musical notation. The Seqence is called: “Prompto Gentes Animo Ferte Nunc Altissimo Honorem Et Gloriam.”

Jeff Ostrowski · November 19, 2020

PDF Download • Several Useful Plainsong Books

“Variae Preces” (1892) — “Cantus Varii” (1902) — “Cantus Varii” (1928) — “Cantus Selecti” (1957)

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 19, 2020

18 November 2020 • FEEDBACK

From a priest in the Midwest: “That video by Andrea Leal which explains hymn meters and hymn text exchange is informative and a truly great explanation. Thank you for sending it to me. I hope all is well with you. God bless you as we soon enter into Advent.”

Andrea Leal · November 18, 2020

(Installment #14) “Catholic Hymnals” • Andrea Leal

I stand behind it to the extent that I have even volunteered to record several practice recordings, for which I have never received—nor will I ever receive—a single cent.

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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

Random Quote

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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