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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1895 Pothier Liber Gradualis (2nd Edition)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1902 Solesmes “Manuale Missæ et Officiorum”

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1903 Solesmes “Liber Usualis” (Mocquereau)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1910’s Organum Comitans (Peter Wagner)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1903 Solesmes Manuale (Gregorian Notation)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1903 (?) Mohr Manuel de Chant

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1910s (?) Wagner’s Proprium de Sanctis

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1908 Graduale Romanum (Vatican Edition)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1925 Graduale (Julius Bas)

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1908 Graduel Neumé by Cardine

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1909 Weinmann Graduale (on modern staves)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1909 Schwann Graduale Romanum

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1927 Proprium Sanctorum (Julius Bas)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1928 Proprium Sanctorum (F.X. Mathias)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1911 Pustet Graduale Romanum

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1933 Organum Comitans (Henri Potiron)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1936 Graduale (Dr. Franz Xavier Mathias)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1951 Mechlin Graduale Romanum (incomplete)

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1947 Graduale (Achille P. Bragers)

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1953 Schwann Graduale Romanum

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6 January 2021 • Anglicans on Plainsong

A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier’s Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): “No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded.” They are absolutely correct.

—Jeff Ostrowski
2 January 2021 • Temptation

When I see idiotic statements made on the internet, I go nuts. When I see heretics promoted by people who should know better, I get angry. Learning to ignore such items is difficult—very difficult. I try to remember the words of Fr. Valentine Young: “Do what God places in front of you each day.” When I am honest, I don’t believe God wants me to dwell on errors and idiocy; there’s nothing I can do about that. During 2021, I will strive to do a better job following the advice of Fr. Valentine.

—Jeff Ostrowski
31 December 2020 • “COMITES CHRISTI”

The feasts for Saint Stephen Proto-Martyr (26 December), Saint John the Evangelist The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved (27 December), and the Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December) seem untouched by any liturgical reforms. These are very powerful feasts—I believe they once possessed octaves—and I believe they could sometimes “overpower” a Sunday feast. The rules for octaves in the olden days are extremely complex. These feasts are sometimes referred to as a single entity as: Comites Christi (“Companions of Christ”). This is just a guess, but there seems to be a triple significance: STEPHEN martyred after Christ lived, JOHN was a martyr who knew Christ personally, and the HOLY INNOCENTS were martyred before Christ’s birth.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“I have, on the other hand, retained several more or less traditional tunes, absolutely valueless and without merit from a musical point of view, but which seem to have become a necessity if a book is to appeal—as I hope this one will—to the varied needs of various churches.”

— A. Edmonds Tozer (1905)

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