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Jeff Ostrowski • Article Archive

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).

Jeff Ostrowski · December 20, 2024

Rorate Caeli + ICEL + Dynamic Equivalence

There’s an old adage: “Once stung, twice shy.”

Jeff Ostrowski · December 19, 2024

“Music List” (4th Sunday of Advent, Year C)

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 19, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • 4th Sunday of Advent

Like so many Advent antiphons, this one is in the first mode and comes from the prophet Isaiah.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2024

Communion (4th Sunday of Advent)

It certainly seems like most of the Advent antiphons come from the book of Isaiah…

Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2024

PDF Download • New Version of “What Child Is This” (SATB) … as of 18 December 2024

A different version was requested. I was able to complete that task earlier today.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2024

PDF Download • “Order of Music” (Funerals)

I have made some changes to my “musical list” for funerals.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2024

PDF Download • “The First Nowell” in Latin — Simplified Version (2024) for Choir & Organ

If you have items you’d like to learn (such as how to make multi-track rehearsal videos) please email them to us.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 15, 2024

‘Live’ Audio Sample (Dec. 2024)

It’s ‘live’—so you can hear babies crying, the sound of the priest incensing the altar, and so forth.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 14, 2024

PDF • “Music List” for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 13, 2024

PDF Download • “What Child Is This?” (SATB arr.)

In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 12, 2024

CCW • Appeal at Year’s End

As 2024 comes to a close, we could really use your financial support…

Jeff Ostrowski · December 11, 2024

Richard J. Clark Featured in ‘Boston Pilot’ Newspaper: “Our Children & Sacred Music”

“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark

Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2024

Re: Sacred Music Symposium 2025

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

Jeff Ostrowski · December 8, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • 3rd Sunday of Advent

This Introit is in the first mode.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2024

For The Record …

It strikes me as quite “Adventy”—for lack of a better term.

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President’s Corner

    “Common” Responsorial Psalm?
    I try to avoid arguing about liturgical legislation (even with Catholic priests) because it seems like many folks hold certain views—and nothing will persuade them to believe differently. You can show them 100 church documents, but it matters not. They won’t budge. Sometimes I’m confronted by people who insist that “there’s no such thing” as a COMMON RESPONSORIAL PSALM. When that happens, I show them a copy of the official legislation in Latin. I have occasionally prevailed by means of this method.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
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    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

Far from dreading an encounter with the Iroquois, Fr. Garnier often told us he would be quite content to fall into their hands and remain their prisoner if—while they were torturing him—he at least had a chance of instructing them as long as his torments lasted. If they allowed him to live, it would afford him a golden opportunity to work for their conversion, which was now impossible, since the gateway to their country was closed as long as they were our enemies.

— Father Ragueneau (Jesuit Relations)

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