High Resolution Scan • “Missale Romanum” (1857)
This rare missal from 1857 contains some musical notes.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
This rare missal from 1857 contains some musical notes.
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
“As the congregation sings their part, the choir “enhances” them with polyphony. This is genius!” — Veronica Moreno
The sixth mode is sometimes the “peaceful” mode.
This Introit is in the sixth mode (known as the “peaceful” mode).
For sixty years, Catholics have demanded to know what is gained by the ceaseless tinkering with liturgical translations.
“That would be to me the finest triumph sacred music could have…” —Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto (1897)
A perfect “apples-to-apples” comparison.
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
His statement is not only foolish, it approaches heresy!
Singing Gregorian Chant lifts one’s spirits. Agree or disagree?
The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from the Ember Saturday of Lent.
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