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Archives for August 2021

Jeff Ostrowski · August 14, 2021

PDF Download • “Ave Maris Stella” (Organ Accompaniment)

The second part has blank staves—so you can compose your own organ harmonies!

Jeff Ostrowski · August 13, 2021

“Part 3 of 3” • Guerrero Kyrie for Our Lady

This is—perhaps—the most phenomenally gorgeous piece ever written.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 12, 2021

PDF Download • Hymn for the Assumption • (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

This hymn was originally for the Assumption, but now can be used on various Marian feasts.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 11, 2021

“Feast of All Saints” • Do You Know This Hymn?

All Saints—November 1st—will be here before you know it!

Jeff Ostrowski · August 9, 2021

PDF Download • “A Very Sloppy Accompaniment”

What I played from yesterday…

Jeff Ostrowski · August 8, 2021

8 August 2021 • “More on the Moræ”

If you look at the 1961 Solesmes Gradual for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, you will see that somebody in the 1960s was trying to figure out the “melismatic moræ vocis” (a.k.a. “Vaticana white notes”) which we have spoken of so frequently on this blog.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 7, 2021

Hymn For The Transfiguration (6 August) • “Recorded During Choir Rehearsal”

An English translation by Robert Campbell of Skerrington (d. 1868), who was a convert to the Catholic Faith.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2021

PDF Download • Alleluia (SATB) by Morales for “Ordinary Form” + “Extraordinary Form”

This piece works well in the “OF” (Ordinary Form) and also the “EF” (Extraordinary Form).

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 5, 2021

“Talking To Dead Composers” • Part 2

Including a live recording (without organ) of “Alleluia, Sing To Jesus” by a volunteer choir.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 4, 2021

It Finally Happened.

Father Valentine used to say: “The cemeteries are full of people who thought they were indispensable.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 2, 2021

“What is Vespers?” • Live Rec. + 100% Scrolling Score

After more than a year of Vespers having been forbidden (due to Covid-19) we’re back!

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Richard J. Clark · August 2, 2021

Michael Olbash on Sounds from the Spires

Olbash holds the distinction of being the Director of Music of two seminaries: Saint John’s Seminary, Boston, and Pope Saint John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 1, 2021

“Homily: 10th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM

Unfortunately, this virtue often seems to be lacking in people who have high positions of authority.

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    Introit • Candlemas (2 February)
    “Candlemas” • Our choir sang on February 2nd, and here's a live recording of the beautiful INTROIT: Suscépimus Deus. We had very little time to rehearse, but I think it has some very nice moments. I promise that by the 8th Sunday after Pentecost it will be perfect! (That Introit is repeated on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost.) We still need to improve, but we're definitely on the right track!
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Simplified Antiphons • “Candlemas”
    Anyone who desires simplified antiphons (“psalm tone versions”) for 2 February, the Feast of the Purification—which is also known as “Candlemas” or the Feast of the Presentation—may freely download them. The texts of the antiphons are quite beautiful. From “Lumen Ad Revelatiónem Géntium” you can hear a live excerpt (Mp3).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Tempo?? • 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘞𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘺 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦
    Once, after Mass, my pastor said he really loved the hymn we did. I said: “Father, that's Holy God, We Praise Thy Name—you never heard it before?” He replied: “But the way you did it was terrific. For once, it didn't sound like a funeral dirge!” Last Sunday, our volunteer choir sang that hymn. I think the tempo was just about right … but what do you think?
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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“In my opinion, there should be reached the aim that all priests could continue to use the old Missal.”

— ‘Cardinal Ratzinger, Letter to Wolfgang Waldstein (14 December 1976)’

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