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Views from the Choir Loft

Archives for January 2025

Jeff Ostrowski · January 17, 2025

“2-Voice Piece” • For February 2nd

The hymn traditionally sung on the feast of the Purification.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 15, 2025

“Entrance Chant” • 2nd Sunday (Ord. Time)

This English adaptation matches the mode of the authentic Gregorian Chant version.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 14, 2025

PDF Download • “Rare Hymnal” (1966) by Monsignor Hayburn and Others — 632 Pages!

In 1979, Monsignor Robert F. Hayburn published an important book called: “Papal Legislation on Sacred Music.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 14, 2025

Repugnant Rhymes in Hymns

This stuck out like a sore thumb.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 14, 2025

Was “Ordinary Time” Found in the 1962 Missal?

The answer might surprise you!

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Corpus Christi Watershed · January 13, 2025

“What A Choral Conductor Must Know” • Interview with Dr. John Paul Johnson

Dr. John Paul Johnson—a frequent guest conductor at Carnegie Hall—served as a conductor-in-residence at the Trinity College of Music (London).

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Julie Huebner · January 13, 2025

PDF Download • “Small Choirs Unite!”

We have a wide range of expertise: from experienced choristers (some with music degrees) to a gentleman who’d never sung in a choir in his life before joining.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · January 11, 2025

When Does “Christmas” End?

“I believe (though I could be wrong) the USCCB website is correct and Jeff is wrong.” —Father J. Haley

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 10, 2025

PDF Download • “Baptism of the Lord” (Hymn)

From what I have seen, musicians tend to be the best liturgists…

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 9, 2025

“Music List” • Baptism of the Lord

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I prepared…

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Dr. Lucas Tappan · January 9, 2025

Livestreams Worth the Reader’s Time

Today I introduce two very different—yet equally sublime—choral foundations.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · January 8, 2025

“Prelim. Details” • Sacred Music Symposium 2025

Too many parish choirs don’t sound as nice as they could. We’re here to help!

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 8, 2025

“Entrance Chant” • Baptism of the Lord

This English adaptation matches the mode of the authentic Gregorian Chant version.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 6, 2025

Hidden Treasure!

What are you waiting for?

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 6, 2025

PDF Download • Extremely Rare! —Solesmes “Graduale” acc. to the Official Rhythm (1,049 pages)

Doesn’t it stand to reason that we should sing from this edition in the manner its creators intended?

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President’s Corner

    Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC which I created for this coming Sunday, the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The INTROIT for this Sunday explains why this Sunday is called “Apple Sunday.” As we approach the end of the liturgical year, most of the INTROITS seem to be in Mode III or Mode IV, which are ‘haunting’ tones.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “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

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

A hymn verse need not be a complete sentence, but it must have completed sense as a recognisable part of the complete sentence, and at each major pause there would be at least a “sense-pause.” Saint Ambrose and the early writers and centonists always kept to this rule. This indicates one of the differences between a poem and a hymn, and by this standard most of the modern hymns and the revisions of old hymns in the Breviary stand condemned.

— Fr. Joseph Connelly

Recent Posts

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  • PDF Download • “Hymns We Have Used” (306 Entries) – Including an 11-Page Chart
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