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Archives for October 2024

Corpus Christi Watershed · October 31, 2024

Pop Quiz • “How Well Do You Know Plainchant?”

Re: the “Communion Antiphon” for the Feast of All Saints (November 1st).

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Keven Smith · October 31, 2024

Final Sundays after Pentecost

There’s no reason to get bored at this time of year!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 31, 2024

Music List • (31st Sund. Ordinary Time)

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 30, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (31st Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 3-NOV-2024

With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 29, 2024

“Entrance Chant” for Sunday (3-NOV-2024)

The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from Wednesday in the 2nd week of Lent.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 29, 2024

Parallel Fifths In Plainsong Accompaniment?

The great masters sometimes even wrote parallel sevenths!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 29, 2024

A Suggestion for Ordinary Form Masses

The idea developed (somehow) that having the priest wait 15 minutes for an item he needs is “good and reverent” liturgy. But that’s false.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 28, 2024

The Truth About Chant Modality

It’s distressing to observe (in certain in quarters) an immature understanding of modality.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 28, 2024

Bishop of Jefferson City Forbids Hymns

Bishop McKnight earned a doctorate in Sacred Theology.

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Christopher Mueller · October 28, 2024

*Gasp* — Other Sacred Music Websites!

In a show of “web-ecumenism” I’d like to mention five today.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 26, 2024

Music List • (30th Sund. Ordinary Time)

Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Veronica Moreno · October 26, 2024

PDF Download • “Seasonal Index” for the Brébeuf Hymnal

It’s been downloaded more than 4,000 times, so it seems useful.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 24, 2024

New Treasures Daily?

What lofty language!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 23, 2024

PDF Download • “Like Gold Dust” — Extremely Rare Book of Gregorian Chants (315 pages)

Including “O Come All Ye Faithful” (with Latin text) in a delightful arrangement for two voices.

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Rebecca De La Torre · October 22, 2024

Entrance Antiphons • “Transitioning from a Contemporary to Sacred Music Program”

“These are simple propers, but not to the point of being monotone.” —Rebecca De La Torre

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    Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

    There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

    The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

    Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reminder” — Month of May (2026)

    Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

    I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

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“By no means would I offer the counsel that Mass be celebrated in languages other than Latin.”

— Archbishop Dwyer (one of the Vatican II fathers)

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