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PDF Download • “Regina Caeli for 3 Voices”

Andrea Leal · April 6, 2022

S A VERY, VERY BUSY homeschooling mom of many who also happens to lead a choir I often have to hurry whenever I am attempting to accomplish something of value. I am a “just get it done” kind of person, and for better or for worse that means that I am often just happy to check something off my list, even if it isn’t perfect. Ironically, I did used to be a perfectionist but I no longer have to battle it as I did before I had children because who has time for that? Nonetheless, my own ridiculous pride sometimes stops me from moving forward with something worthwhile. That is why I have sat on these recordings for 3 years:

*  PDF Download • REGINA CAELI
—For Three Voices; Composed by Gregor Aichinger (d. 1628).

Rehearsal videos: Equal Voices •  Soprano I • Soprano II • Tenor

A 12-Year-Old Singer: Back in 2019 I came across this beautiful polyphonic Regina Caeli by Aichinger and I decided it would be a wonderful piece to try with my choir. I also created rehearsal audio for it, but because I recorded it very quickly so my choir could start learning it, it’s not a very well done recording (to say the least). We did only a few takes, and I settled for electronic corrections over re-recording. I never shared this before because pride and perfectionism held me back. I cringe even now when I listen to the hack job I did. But even hack jobs have their purpose. I am, however, consoled by the best part of these recordings – the lovely soprano voice of one of my singers, who at the time of this recording was just 12 years old!

Pride Is Bad! This Lent, I am trying really hard to let go of the vices of pride and perfectionism, and so I am sharing this with you. If any other choir can benefit from using these recordings to glorify the Lord at Holy Mass on Easter Sunday, then my “bad” recordings are actually very, very good.

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Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Tagged With: Gregor Aichinger, Regina Caeli Laetare, Simple Polyphony Last Updated: April 6, 2022

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About Andrea Leal

Andrea Leal is a wife and homeschooling mother of 6 children. She serves as choir director for the Traditional Latin Mass in Las Vegas.—(Read full biography).

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    Hymn by Cardinal Newman
    During the season of Septuagesima, we will be using this hymn by Cardinal Newman, which employs both Latin and English. (Readers probably know that Cardinal Newman was one of the world's experts when it comes to Lingua Latina.) The final verse contains a beautiful soprano descant. Father Louis Bouyer—famous theologian, close friend of Pope Paul VI, and architect of post-conciliar reforms—wrote thus vis-à-vis the elimination of Septuagesima: “I prefer to say nothing, or very little, about the new calendar, the handiwork of a trio of maniacs who suppressed (with no good reason) Septuagesima and the Octave of Pentecost and who scattered three quarters of the Saints higgledy-piddledy, all based on notions of their own devising!”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    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). I'm not a fan of chant in octaves, but we had such limited time to rehearse, it seemed the best choice. After all, everyone should have an opportunity to learn “Lumen Ad Revelatiónem Géntium,” which summarizes Candlemas.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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Goupil deserves the name of martyr not only because he has been murdered by the enemies of God and His Church while laboring in ardent charity for his neighbor, but most of all because he was killed for being at prayer and notably for making the Sign of the Cross.

— St. Isaac Jogues (after the martyrdom of Saint René Goupil)

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