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Views from the Choir Loft

Father Friel • Article Archive

Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at Saint Anselm Church in Northeast Philly before earning a doctorate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America. He presently serves as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.—(Read full biography).

Fr. David Friel · March 24, 2019

New Musical Settings for the Blessing of the Holy Oils

The USCCB has provided freely downloadable versions of the musical settings of these newly translated texts.

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Fr. David Friel · March 17, 2019

The Lorica of St. Patrick

A fifth-century hymn preserved in an eleventh-century manuscript

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Fr. David Friel · March 10, 2019

Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast

Dedicated to exploring the teaching and vision of the Church on the topic of liturgical music

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Fr. David Friel · March 3, 2019

Leo XIII to St. Katharine Drexel: “What about you?”

Today marks the feast of Mother Katharine Drexel, whom the Holy Father challenged to become a missionary.

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Fr. David Friel · February 23, 2019

New Resource! • Chant Videos for Treble Voices

A new website seeks to record the full Gregorian propers each week using a treble voice.

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Fr. David Friel · February 17, 2019

Sacred Architecture and Brexit

A connecting link in the form of Gothic cathedrals

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Fr. David Friel · February 2, 2019

Fourth-Century Advice for Choir Directors

A passage from Nicetas of Remesiana remains eminently applicable today.

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Fr. David Friel · January 27, 2019

Formed in Beauty Lectures

Videos have been posted from the 2017 & 2018 conferences of the Catholic Art Guild

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Fr. David Friel · January 20, 2019

Music Leads Us to Heaven

Franz Schubert’s famous art song, “An die Musik”

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Fr. David Friel · January 13, 2019

Two February Workshops

A Symposium in Chicago and the Winter Pastoral Chant Conference in Indiana

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Fr. David Friel · December 23, 2018

New Chair of Sacred Music at US Seminary

Dr. Nathan Knutson will inaugurate this new position.

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Fr. David Friel · December 1, 2018

How Does Benedict XVI Perceive His Retirement?

Clues from a Wednesday General Audience

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Fr. David Friel · November 18, 2018

Portland Publishes an “Archdiocesan Liturgical Handbook”

New publication from Archbishop Sample’s Office of Divine Worship

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Fr. David Friel · November 4, 2018

Fulton Sheen on the Priesthood of the Baptized

A Lesson from a Retreat for the Priests of Gary, IN

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Fr. David Friel · October 28, 2018

Proclaiming Christ’s Kingship

Acknowledging the Lord’s Dominion on Earth and in Heaven

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President’s Corner

    “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
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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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

“If the cantor goes about the matter correctly, he can in half an hour impart two hymns to the schola which remain forever the inalienable possession of the person.” (Wenn der Kantor die Sache richtig anfaßt, kann er in einer halben Stunde zwei Lieder der Schola vermitteln, die für immer unverlierbares Eigentum des Menschen bleiben.)

— Professor Vinzenz Goller (student of Franz Xaver Haberl) writing in 1952

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