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“Adze” • Do you know this word?

Jeff Ostrowski · April 12, 2021

ERHAPS SOMEDAY I will reveal what I think of William F. Buckley—if could be persuaded that people care one way or the other about my views. For the moment, I will simply say something nobody will dispute: his television shows were on a high level; a level that would not be tolerated today. Mr. Buckley interviewed all sorts of people on his television show: Mother Theresa, Fulton J. Sheen, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Norman Mailer, Jesse Jackson, E. Howard Hunt, Richard Nixon, and so forth.

In this clip, somebody asks Mr. Buckley why he uses such a large vocabulary:

Mr. Buckley is not wrong. In fact, you can download a fascinating PDF file of “The Trials Of A Translator” (Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, 1949) if you click here. The same book is also called “On Englishing the Bible.” I’m not really sure why the same book has two different titles.

A Difficult Word :

A very difficult and confusing word is found in the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible:

Douay-Rheims — (Luke 5: 9) For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken…

The word “draught” is pronounced here as if it were “draft.” We pronounce “slaughter” differently than we pronounce “laughter.” I believe that Miller Genuine Draft could also be spelled: “Miller Genuine Draught.” (not kidding) Monsignor Knox wisely changes that difficult word in his Bible translation: (Luke 5: 9) “Such amazement had overcome both him and all his crew, at the catch of fish they had made…”

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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
14 May 2022 • Gorgeous Book

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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“Now we are aware of the fact that during recent years some artists, gravely offending against Christian piety, have dared to bring into churches works devoid of any religious inspiration and completely at variance with the right rules of art.”

— Ven. Pope Pius XII (25 December 1955)

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