PDF Download • Accompaniment Edition (183 pages) — “Jesuit Hymnal” (Buffalo, New York)
For the first time in history, we release today the accompaniment edition of Father Hacker’s Hymnal.
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A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).

For the first time in history, we release today the accompaniment edition of Father Hacker’s Hymnal.

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

I share my thoughts on whether the Introit should come before or after the procession hymn.

Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.
Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

This is the closest I’ve come to putting down on paper exactly what I heard in my head.
I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

How well do you know your Gregorian Chant?

These are currently ‘making the rounds’ on Twitter.

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

Such a shame it only comes every three years…

There’s no question Knox sometimes enjoyed “pushing the envelope” or stepping outside the box.
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