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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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President’s Corner

    “Reprehensible Rhymes” • (1955 Hymnal)

    It really does seem as though this gentleman was only considered an ‘expert’ in Roman Catholic hymnody when compared to others…

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Singers’ Booklet”

    The Communion antiphon this week is the powerful “Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Feast of All Saints (Nov. 1st)

    The formatting of this booklet is ‘messy’—but it’s only ever seen by the singers (not the congregation).

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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 chapter orders that any cathedral singer or instrumentalist who uses a paid leave of absence to try out for a post elsewhere shall automatically forfeit his post at Seville Cathedral.” [From “The Life of Father Francisco Guerrero.”]

— Sevilla Cathedral: Chapter Resolution (7 September 1565)

Recent Posts

  • Seven (7) ‘Ad Libitum’ Antiphons • “Gateway to the Gregorian Propers”
  • “Reprehensible Rhymes” • (1955 Hymnal)
  • 70% Moonshine? • Jeff Responds to a Dissertation-Length Article on Gregorian Chant
  • Hymn: “Lux Alma Jesu Méntium” • 16 English Translations by Priests, Cardinals, & Bishops
  • PDF Download • “Singers’ Booklet”

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