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PDF Download • “Audi Benigne Conditor” (Organ Accompaniment)

Jeff Ostrowski · March 13, 2022

T IS SOMEWHAT remarkable how difficult it is to find accompaniments for Vespers. Without question, the best source is the Nova Organi Harmonia—using, of course, the search function, which is COMMAND+F on a Mac, or CONTROL+F on a Windows computer. People like Giulio Bas, Joseph Hanisch, John Lambert and Peter Wagner also harmonized parts of the Divine Office, which you can conveniently download at the Lalande Library—but those collections are problematic in various ways. In Lent, the organ is permitted “to accompany the voices.” We have posted a number of articles with Vespers resources.

Here’s an accompaniment I created:

*  PDF Download • “Audi Benígne Cónditor”
—Harmonization by Jeff Ostrowski (15 March 2020).

Do you see how every verse is written out? This imitates the accompaniments for the Brébeuf hymnal:

Below is “Audi Benigne Conditor” as it appeared approximately 1425AD:

By the way, here’s an organ accompaniment to AUDI BENIGNE CONDITOR by Marcel Dupré (d. 1971), whom some consider the greatest concert organist of all time:

Our parish has five Sunday Masses, plus Vespers. I am so glad the Brébeuf hymnal provides numerous different tunes for each hymn, because I would go crazy playing the same tune six times in one day!

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Audi Benigne Conditor, Vespers Hymn for Lent, Vespers Organist Scores Last Updated: March 13, 2022

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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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PDF • “Organ Interludes” (Manuals Only)

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
For the Upcoming Choir Season!

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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