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Views from the Choir Loft

Archives for October 2024

Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

“Singing With The Girls”

The version by Father Victoria is also quite beautiful, although the ranges for some voices are challenging.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

“Reader Feedback” • 22 October 2024

“I had never directed for the TLM before this semester, and your resources have been beneficial…”

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Corpus Christi Watershed · October 22, 2024

In Search of the Pius XII Psalter!

Robert B. sent us the following email…

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (30th Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 27-OCT-2024

When the congregation isn’t moved, such a musician will reply: “Well, that’s just because they’re uneducated philistines who don’t know anything.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

“Entrance Chant” for Sunday (27-Oct-2024)

This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2024

Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 19, 2024

Is the ‘Orans’ Position Disobedient? • Re: the Congregation’s Posture during the Lord’s Prayer

Forcing the entire congregation to assume various postures has a rather sordid history.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 19, 2024

PDF Download • “Extremely Rare Biography!” — Raphael Cardinal Merry Del Val (272 Pages)

I’ve been patiently waiting to release this since the summer!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 16, 2024

Released! • Stellar Hymn We Just Recorded

The Tenor line is particularly pleasant, the way it rises with stepwise motion and then descends.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · October 16, 2024

“My Best Advice To You” • After 18 Years At My Catholic Parish

A few years ago, I attended Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London…

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 16, 2024

Anybody Want This Prayer?

I posted this on social media. Tons of people requested a copy…

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Veronica Moreno · October 16, 2024

A Story of Success!

Veronica Moreno shares a ‘quick thought’ regarding the topic of the sacred liturgy.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 15, 2024

“This Change Blew My Mind” • Confusion: Is 9 December 2024 a Holy Day of Obligation?

I just got off the phone with a very high ranking official at the USCCB…

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 15, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (20-Oct-2024)

This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 15, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (29th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

With a digression on a 1971 film called “Fiddler on the Roof.”

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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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“We cannot approve of the attitude of those who use the problems raised and discussed by the Council to create in themselves and in others an attitude of unrest and a desire for radical reformation, as if the Council gives every private opinion a chance to destroy the heritage of the Church. acquired during Her many centuries of history and experience.”

— Pope Paul VI (30 June 1965)

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