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Archives for July 2024

Jeff Ostrowski · July 31, 2024

“Saint Felix Creed” • Musical Setting for the Nicene Creed (Roman Missal, 3rd Edition)

On 20 March 2014, this musical setting was approved for liturgical use by “The Committee on Divine Worship” (a standing committee of the USCCB).

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 31, 2024

Reminder • “Lalemant Propers” (392 Pages)

You can purchase this book in hard-copy, but many prefer to download the PDF file.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 30, 2024

“Entrance Chant in English” • 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

“Entrance Chant” for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 29, 2024

PDF Download • “O’Fallon Mass Propers” (483 Pages)

Including an English version of the “Dies Irae,” an English version of the “Lauda Sion,” and hundreds of pages of English Mass Propers.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 29, 2024

Can You Answer These Four (4) Questions?

How to unify your parish music program for different Masses in different languages.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 27, 2024

Music List • (17th Sund. Ordinary Time)

Some have expressed interest in seeing my “Order of Music” for tomorrow, which is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. If such a thing be appealing to you, it can be downloaded as a PDF file.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 26, 2024

“Simplified” Accomp. (3,400 downloads)

Saint Georg’s Windsor is often paired with “Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise” by Christopher Wordsworth.

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Richard J. Clark · July 25, 2024

Spanish Psalter that’s great for the Organ!

Free download of Responsorial Psalms in Spanish that work great for the organ from composer Marc Cersiser

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 24, 2024

MONTH OF JULY • “Reminder”

Each day, I speak on the phone with Catholics who’ve supported Corpus Christi Watershed for years—yet many don’t subscribe to our free email newsletter! Please sign up! Simply scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address. (We have no endowment, no major donors, run no advertisements, and have no savings. Therefore, our […]

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Dr. Samuel Backman · July 24, 2024

Sacred Music and Suspicions of Elitism

“While a student, I was told to avoid playing Bach in the context of worship, as doing so might give the impression that I was targeting a sort of ‘elite’ class.” —Dr. Samuel Backman

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 23, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • This coming Sunday!

This Sunday (28 July 2024) is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Here is the PDF file of the ENTRANCE ANTIPHON—in Gregorian notation on five lines—which we’ll be singing. You can also download the organ accompaniment that corresponds to that file. If you are someone who enjoys rehearsal videos, you can listen to my recording […]

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 23, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Years ABC)

Including ten (10) alternate versions!

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Corrinne May · July 22, 2024

National Catholic Register Features Our Own!

“I listened to his composition in awe.” —Corrinne May

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 22, 2024

“Death Stops Us. It Stops Our Race.”

“One builds a house, and its roof is not finished; another buys merchandise, and it is not yet sold.” —Cardinal Newman

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 20, 2024

21 July 2024 • “Musical Plan” (English)

Some of our readers expressed interest in what I’m doing for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. You are welcome to download my musical outline for tomorrow, which is Sunday (21 July 2024). I’ve only been at this job a few weeks—so I don’t have a choir yet. But that will come!

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    PDF Download • “Cordero de Dios”
    Feel free to download this setting of the “Cordero de Dios” (AGNUS DEI) in Spanish. The congregation gets an interesting melody within reach, the organist gets a straightforward accompaniment, and the person assembling the ORDER OF WORSHIP gets a ‘ready-to-paste’ plainsong version. Try this setting of the “Santo, Santo, Santo” (SANCTUS) if you desire one that’s easy to sing and includes a simple organ accompaniment. For the record, I have harmonized the Spanish “GLORIA” found in the MISAL ROMANO, Tercera Edición. Click here to download that.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Be Joyful Mary” • Organ Interlude

    Peter Piel (1835–1904), was a Roman Catholic composer named “Royal Music Director” under Wilhelm I, King of Prussia.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
    Dutch organist, teacher, and conductor HERMAN STRATEGIER (d. 1988) studied under Hendrik Andriessen. He composed this unison setting with organ accompaniment for the LORD’S PRAYER (“Our Father”) which a children’s choir would find both within reach and worthy of the effort. The whole thing fits neatly on a single page. Strategier eventually became organist of Saint Catherine’s Cathedral in Utrecht. He also taught at the “Dutch Institute for Catholic Church Music” (Nederlands Instituut voor Katholieke Kerkmuziek).
    —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

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing—direct murder by the mother herself. And we read in the Scripture, for God says very clearly: “Even if a mother could forget her child, I will not forget you: I have carved you in the palm of my hand.”

— Mother Theresa (11 Dec 1979)

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