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Archives for September 2021

Jeff Ostrowski · September 28, 2021

28 September 2021 • FEEDBACK

From a reader: “I have read the pages explaining the Blessed Sacrament in the Brébeuf hymnal and plan on continuing to contemplate them. Moreover, the Christ the King Hymn is beautifully sung on the recording you posted (to the Watershed blog), and I wish my church would sing these hymns instead of modern ones from […]

Jeff Ostrowski · September 28, 2021

PDF Download • “Can A Hymnal Be Too Catholic?”

Can Protestant translations be dangerous? This paper presents items worth considering.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 28, 2021

“Catholic Sensibility” • What Makes A Hymnal Catholic?

I personally find the following pairings (hymn text + hymn melody) to be reprehensible…

Jeff Ostrowski · September 28, 2021

Gregorian Chant • Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel

From a rare book of Franciscan chants (1902)

Jeff Ostrowski · September 27, 2021

New CD release from the FSSP in Europe!

Christmas Matins from Bavaria…

Jeff Ostrowski · September 26, 2021

“Salve Regina” • Organ Accompaniment

Readers already realize that seventeen (17) splendid organ accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina” can be freely and conveniently downloaded here. But what about the solemn tone for the “Salve Regina”—has anyone composed an organ accompaniment for that? Yes, Canon Jules Van Nuffel has composed one for the solemn version.

Jeff Ostrowski · September 24, 2021

“Easy Polyphonic Agnus Dei” • Part 3 of 3

The ability of your singers to sight-read music instantly does not guarantee a good performance.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 24, 2021

“A Tale Of Two Missals”

Sometimes words are superfluous. Sometimes no commentary is needed. If you look at this Tale of Two Missals (PDF)—which compares the Canon from the “Modern” ICEL Missal with a “Dark Ages” Missal, I think you will understand exactly what I’m getting at.

Jeff Ostrowski · September 23, 2021

23 September 2021 • FEEDBACK

From a reader: “Corpus Christi Watershed is the greatest musical organization ever created in the Church!”

Jeff Ostrowski · September 21, 2021

Church “Narthex” • What’s that?

Do you know what the church narthex is? It’s kind of like a separate room, blocked off by a wall. A buddy of mine (sitting in the narthex) took some iPhone recordings of our congregation singing Vespers. Here’s how they sound sans organ. [Note: Whenever I play for Vespers, I make sure to have some […]

Jeff Ostrowski · September 21, 2021

“A Truly Eucharistic Hymn” • Christ the King (SATB)

Did Vatican II “restore” the hymns—as mandated by §93 of Sacrosanctum Concilium?

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 19, 2021

Clarion Call To All Choirmasters! • (26 Sept.)

Forty images of (IMHO) the patron saints of church musicians.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 18, 2021

“Homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM

“In our day and age I think it is good that we all be reminded that Christ will eventually overcome his enemies.”

Jeff Ostrowski · September 16, 2021

16 September 2021 • Fulton J. Sheen

Here is a photo of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen celebrating Mass in Jerusalem. That image was included in the “Fulton J. Sheen Sunday Missal” (1961), which was edited by Father Caramen and has an IMPRIMATUR by William Cardinal Godfrey, who served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1956 until his death in 1963. The Fulton Sheen […]

Jeff Ostrowski · September 16, 2021

15 September 2021 • Offertory Problem

I submit to you that nothing is gained by these slight variations in the repeats for the Epipany Offertory. The edition is by Carl Ott, a musicologist. Almost nothing is about Carl Ott—as far as I can tell, nobody even knows when Carl Ott was born or when Carl Ott died.

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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

“Angularis fundamentum” is typically sung at the dedication or consecration of a church and on church anniversaries. For constructions too numerous to list in recent generations, it would be more appropriate to sing that Christ had been made a temporary foundation. A dispirited generation built temporary housing for its Lord, and in the next millnenium, the ease of its removal may be looked back upon as its chief virtue.

— Fr. George Rutler (2016)

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