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Emporium Kevin Allen • Official Site

Emporium Kevin Allen • Official Site

EVIN ALLEN has been highly regarded as a composer of opera, chamber and orchestral music. He has also developed a unique reputation as a composer of church music for the Roman Rite. By popular demand, his works are now being made available in EMPORIUM KEVIN ALLEN. Mr. Allen’s works, sacred and secular, have been performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe. He is the founding director of the Collins Consort, the American Composer’s Project, and the Schola Immaculata. Mr. Allen is also the choirmaster of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chicago.

🔴 Available on Amazon as of 29 June 2025:
Hymns of John Henry Cardinal Newman: Kevin Allen’s Legendary Choral Settings

+  STOWE MISSAL EUCHARISTIC MOTETS (SAB)
—For Soprano, Alto, and Bass • 28-page book • This is Volume 1 (additional volumes will be released each year) • These pieces employ the ancient communion texts from the 7th-century STOWE MISSAL.

+  MATRI DIVINAE GRATIAE (SAB)
—Simple pieces for Soprano, Alto, and Bass • sample page • 42-page book.

+ MISSA FIDELIS SERVUS
—SATB; A Cappella; Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei • 25-page book.

+  MISSA NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND
—SATB • Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Hosanna, Benedictus & Hosanna, Agnus Dei • sample page • 12-page book.

+  MISSA AD TE LEVAVI
—SSA • Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus & Hosanna, Benedictus & Hosanna, Agnus Dei • sample page • 17-page book.

+  MISSA CHRISTUS REX
—SATB with Organ • Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Hosanna, Benedictus & Hosanna, Agnus Dei • sample page • 24-page book.

+  MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS QUINQUE VOCUM
—“Mass for the Dead” for SSATB chorus, a cappella • 55-page book • Requiem Mass.

+  MISSA BREVIS
—“Missa Brevis” for SATB chorus, a cappella • 13-page book.

+  MISSA ORBIS FACTOR
—For Treble Chorus, Chant Schola, and Strings Conductor’s Score (Full Score) with String parts (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass) • 42-page book.
MMM Note: For “Missa Orbis Factor,” the Schola and Treble Chorus will sing from The Rehearsal Score (which has piano reduction).

+  MISSA REX GENITOR
—Mass for three equal voices • 25-page book • 34 practice videos by Matthew J. Curtis.

+  CANTIONES SACRAE II
—Fifteen SATB motets • 55-page book • includes the famous “Tantum Ergo” which opens Sacred, Beautiful, & Universal • 15 free practice videos by Matthew J. Curtis.

+  MISSA REX SPLENDENS
—Mass for SA chorus, chant schola, & organ • 30-page book • based on Gregorian Chant Mass VII in the Kyriale.

+  “I Sing of a Maiden”
—SATB + ORGAN • 8 pages long.

+  MOTECTA TRIUM VOCUM
—Twelve (12) motets for three equal voices • 64-page book • includes optional Psalms in Latin & English • more than 56 free practice videos by Matthew J. Curtis.

+  Missa de Beata Virgine • SATB Chorus A Cappella
—34 pages; Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Hosanna, Benedictus, Hosanna, Agnus Dei.

+  CANTIONES SACRAE SIMPLICES (SATB)
—Twelve simple SATB motets • 84-page book • includes optional Psalms in Latin & English • more than 150 free practice videos by Matthew J. Curtis • Foreword by Dr. William Mahrt • Hear a live recording of one of these motets sung at the Vatican by the choir of the Sistine Chapel.

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    “Sanctus VIII” • Organ Accompaniment
    A few days ago, I composed this organ harmonization for SANCTUS VIII. This Mass is traditionally called Missa de ángelis or “Mass of the angels.” In French, it is Messe de Anges. You can evaluate my attempt to simultaneously accompany myself on the pipe organ (click here) while singing the melody. My parish is currently singing this setting.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (5th Sund. Ordinary Time)
    Readers have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday, 8 February 2026, which is the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. You will probably notice it isn’t as ‘complete’ or ‘spiffy’ as usual, owing to some difficulties which took place this week.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF • “Communion” (5th Sunday in Ordin.)
    The COMMUNION ANTIPHON for this coming Sunday, 8 February 2026—which is the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)—is truly delightful. You can download the musical score completely free of charge. This text will be familiar to altar boys, because it’s PSALM 42. The Feder Missal makes the following claim about that psalm: “A hymn of a temple musician from Jerusalem: he is an exile in a heathen land, and he longs for the holy city and his ministry in the Temple there. The Church makes his words her own.”
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Reminder” — Month of Febr. (2026)
    On a daily basis, I speak to people who don’t realize we publish a free newsletter (although they’ve followed our blog for years). We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoying ads. As a result, our mailing list is crucial to our survival. It couldn’t be easier to subscribe! Just scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Chart • “Plainsong Rhythm”
    I will go to my grave without understanding the lack of curiosity so many people have about the rhythmic modifications made by Dom André Mocquereau. For example, how can someone examine this single sheet comparison chart and at a minimum not be curious about the differences? Dom Mocquereau basically creates a LONG-SHORT LONG-SHORT rhythmic pattern—in spite of enormous and overwhelming manuscript evidence to the contrary. That’s why some scholars referred to his method as “Neo-Mensuralist” or “Neo-Mensuralism.”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF • “O Come All Ye Faithful” (Simplified)
    I admire the harmonization of “Adeste Fideles” by David Willcocks (d. 2015), who served as director of the Royal College of Music (London, England). In 2025, I was challenged to create a simplified arrangement for organists incapable of playing the authentic version at tempo. The result was this simplified keyboard arrangement (PDF download) based on the David Willcocks version of “O Come All Ye Faithful.” Feel free to play through it and let me know what you think.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“We decided to entrust this work to learned men of our selection. They very carefully collated all their work with the ancient codices in Our Vatican Library and with reliable, preserved or emended codices from elsewhere. Besides this, these men consulted the works of ancient and approved authors concerning the same sacred rites; and thus they have restored the Missal itself to the original form and rite of the holy Fathers.”

— ‘Pope St. Pius V (Quo Primum, 1570)’

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