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Archives for January 2023

Keven Smith · January 19, 2023

Hidden Gem: Adoro Te Devote (Carlotta Ferrari)

Find out why this motet is simple enough for beginning choirs yet demanding enough to challenge seasoned singers.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 17, 2023

PDF Download • “Keenly Rare!” • Gregorian Chant Booklet on 5 Lines (1920) — 326 Pages

There must have been a need for such a booklet, otherwise he would not have gone to the trouble of creating it!

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 17, 2023

Church Music • “Should It Make Your Congregation Happy or Sad?”

If your priest approaches you after Mass and says the music sounded horrible, it’s incorrect to reply: “Well, that’s how it’s supposed to be.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 16, 2023

Desperate! • Needing help after robbery

A few years ago, I had valuable books stolen. Recovery efforts with law enforcement have failed, so I’m reaching out to our readers. Can somebody help me obtain VOLUME II and VOLUME VIII of the Nova organi harmonia published in the 1940s and 1950s by the LEMMENSINSTITUUT? As far as I can tell, these volumes can’t […]

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 15, 2023

PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment Booklet” (25 pages) — Vespers, 2nd Sunday after Epiphany

The internet is putting good people in touch with one another.

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Daniel Tucker · January 15, 2023

Introducing The Saint Hildegard Project

Comprised of men and women who share a fervent devotion to the music itself, The Saint Hildegard Project strives to teach with integrity and perform with excellence for the edification of souls and the glory of God.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 14, 2023

Video • “Counting Gregorian Chant” … according to Dom Mocquereau’s Method

The example chosen is the strenuous offertory (“Jubiláte Déo”) for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany.

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Andrea Leal · January 13, 2023

New Lectionary for the USA • Coming in 2028?

“Work hasn’t even begun on the next Lectionary, and there’s nothing definite about 2028 as a date.” — Father Andrew V. Menke, director of the USCCB liturgical committee

Jeff Ostrowski · January 13, 2023

Hymn Experiment • “Does This Work?”

If memory serves, his exact words were: “Gee, I never thought about that before.” Astonishing!

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 11, 2023

PDF Download • Max Springer’s Gradual in Modern Notation (870 pages) — Extravagantly Rare!

In addition to this rare book by Max Springer (870 pages), I release the draft copy of a new Gregorian project (157 pages).

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 8, 2023

Which Hymnal Did Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Endorse?

Musicians can have a stronger voice than even the legendary Fulton J. Sheen!

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 6, 2023

What Exactly Is Dr. Peter Wagner Talking About?

“These manuscripts had to be sought out in the public or capitular libraries, whose conservators were often hardly supportive of—if not outright hostile to—the reproduction of their treasures.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 5, 2023

“Solesmes Method” • Where was it developed?

Father Ralph March wrote: “If any single man could deserve the title father of the renewed chant it would be Dom Joseph Pothier.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 4, 2023

PDF Download • The Official Funeral Booklet for Pope Benedict XVI (37 pages)

We strive to emphasize the positive on this blog, but I have to admit…

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 4, 2023

PDF Download • “Corde Natus Ex Parentis” w/ Modern Harmonies (4 pages)

She said: “Jeff, you should record these harmonies with human voices, to illustrate what you mean.”

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“The Night Office—Nocturns or Matins—except for Holy Week, Easter Octave, and Christmas, has never appeared in the Vatican edition. The larger part of the mediaeval repertory for the Office thus remains still unpublished in the Vatican edition, and is likely to remain so, for the obvious reason that almost no cathedral chapters or monastic choirs sing the Night Office regularly today.”

— John Merle Boe (1968)

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