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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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    Music List • (4th Sunday of Lent)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC I created for this coming Sunday, which is the 4th Sunday of Lent (15 March 2026). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. This feast has sublime propers. It is most often referred to as “Lætare Sunday” owing to its INTROIT. I encourage all the readers to visit the feasts website, where the Propria Missae may be downloaded completely free of charge.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • Communion (4th Snd. Lent)
    The COMMUNION ANTIPHON for this coming Sunday, which is the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year A), is particularly beautiful. There’s something irresistible about this tone; it’s neither happy nor sad. As always, I encourage readers to visit the flourishing feasts website, where the complete Propria Missae may be downloaded free of charge.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Good Friday Flowers
    Good Friday has a series of prayers for various parties: the pope, catechumens, pagans, heretics, schismatics, and so forth. In the old liturgical books, there was no official ‘name’ for these prayers. (This wasn’t unusual as ‘headers’ and ‘titles’ for each section is a rather modern idea.) The Missal simply instructed the priest to go to the Epistle side and begin. In the SHERBORNE MISSAL, each prayer begins with a different—utterly spectacular—flower. This PDF file shows the first few prayers. Has anyone counted the ‘initial’ drop-cap flowers in the SHERBORNE MISSAL? Surely there are more than 1,000.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Dies Irae” • A Monstrous Translation
    It isn’t easy to determine what Alice King MacGilton hoped to accomplish with her very popular book—A Study of Latin Hymns (1918)—which continued to be reprinted in new editions for at least 34 years. This PDF file shows her attempt to translate the DIES IRAE “in the fewest words possible.” There’s a place for dynamic equivalency, but this is repugnant. In particular, look what she does to “Quærens me sedísti lassus.”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Holy, Holy, Holy”
    For vigil Masses on Saturday (a.k.a. “anticipated” Masses) we use this simpler setting of the “Holy, Holy, Holy” by Monsignor Jules Vyverman (d. 1989), a Belgian priest, organist, composer, and music educator who ultimately succeeded another ‘Jules’ (CANON JULES VAN NUFFEL) as director of the Lemmensinstituut in Belgium. Although I could be wrong, my understanding is that the LEMMENSINSTITUUT eventually merged with “Catholic University of Leuven” (originally founded in 1425). That’s the university Fulton J. Sheen attended.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Grotesque Pairing • “Passion Chorale”
    One of our rarest releases was undoubtably this PDF scan of the complete Pope Pius XII Hymnal (1959) by Father Joseph Roff, a student of Healey Willan. One of the scarcest titles in existence, this book was provided to us by Mr. Peter Meggison. Back in 2018, we scanned each page and uploaded it to our website, making it freely available to everyone. Readers are probably sick of hearing me say this, but just because we upload something that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wonderful or worthy of imitation. We upload many publications precisely because they are ‘grotesque’, interesting, or revealing. Whereas the Brébeuf Catholic Hymnal had an editorial board that was careful and sensitive vis-à-vis pairing texts with tunes, the Pope Pius XII Hymnal (1959) seems to have been rather reckless in this regard. Please take a look at what they did with the PASSION CHORALE and see whether you agree.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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No concession should ever be made for the singing of the Exsultet, in whole or in part, in the vernacular.

— ‘Fr. Augustin Bea, S.J. in the years immediately before the Second Vatican Council’

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