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PDF Download • “Feast of the Holy Name” (Vespers Organ Accompaniment)

Jeff Ostrowski · January 6, 2022

OBODY COULD EVER KNOW. Nobody, that is, except a choirmaster! Only a fellow choirmaster knows how much work it takes to run a music program. We are required to do so much more than our “job description” outlines. Whether it’s spending time creating the Order of Worship, editing scores, researching repertoire, communicating with current choir members, recruiting new members—the list goes on and on. Not to mention rehearsing and learning more about sacred music. Then we have the “extra” things required to run a successful program: such a becoming the sound technician because nobody else will. Then we have the “annoying things” that seem endless: such as people who intrude into your pre-Mass rehearsal (when time is so precious) and—I am not making this up— stuff cash into your pockets literally while you’re playing the organ. When you catch up to the stranger after Mass, he says: “Oh, that money was for my sister’s wedding in two months.” The list goes on and on.

Here’s an organ accompaniment I put together for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. It’s pretty ugly, but maybe it will give you some ideas:

* PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment (14 pages)
“Feast of the Holy Name” • Organ Accompaniment for Vespers
—Ugly Score for organists only!

You can download the organ accompaniment for Vespers of the Holy Family at this website. That score needs a lot of cleaning; time will tell whether I can fix it before this coming Sunday!

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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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In graduate school, one is taught a valuable lesson: if you emphasize everything, nothing is emphasized. In other words, putting every other word in bold or italic (or both) wrecks your paper. I never to use the word “best”—but today I make an exception. The book of organ interludes released today by my colleague is without question the best I’ve ever seen. Including Dom Gregory Murray, Flor Peeters, Jacques Lemmens, John Lee, C. H. Rinck, Dom Alphege Shebbeare, Oreste Ravanello, Louis Niedermeyer, Eugène Gigout, Luigi Bottazzo, Johann Sebastian Bach, and many others. Learn more by clicking here.

—Jeff Ostrowski
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Last week, I posted an SATB choral setting of the SANCTUS in a ‘contemporary’ style. You might want to consider this piece for two reasons: (1) It’s extremely brief; (2) Free rehearsal videos are available for each individual part. The piece is by Father Lhoumeau.

—Jeff Ostrowski
PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers” (22 pages)

When an organist accompanies Vespers, there is no time to think. It’s one thing after another: Bam – Bam – Bam. And that’s what makes Vespers difficult to accompany; there’s hardly even time to check the key signature for each piece! Therefore, although it’s far from perfect, I’m releasing this 22-page booklet:

PDF Download • SUNDAY VESPERS ACCOMPANIMENT

As time goes on, I will explain why I believe this booklet is important, my hopes for it, and why I selected the official edition, directly from the Vesperale Romanum. In spite of its imperfections, creating this (draft) booklet required much more effort than I had anticipated.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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At the Council of Trent, the subject was raised whether it was correct to refer to the unconsecrated elements of bread and wine as “immaculata hostia” (spotless victim) and “calix salutaris” (chalice of salvation) in the offertory prayers. Likewise the legitimacy of the making the sign of the cross over the elements after the Eucharistic consecration was discussed.

— ‘Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, Cong. Orat.’

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