Video Demonstration • “Do Choral Vowels Matter?”
Can you see the difference? Can you hear the difference?
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
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).
Can you see the difference? Can you hear the difference?
Download these Propers for Saint Pio of Pietrelcina—according to the 1962 Missale Romanum!
“I think that all of us clerics should rethink our choice of clothing…” —Bishop René H. Gracida
I first sang this marvelous piece as a freshman in college, under Dr. James F. Daugherty.
“May thine abiding loving-kindness, O Lord, cleanse and fortify thy Church…”
Here’s a chart with rubrics from the 1974 “Graduale” translated into English.
Astounding video about how the Amiens Cathedral was saved by a medieval “iron band-aid.”
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.
“Reconciled for evermore to thy Church, do thou watch over her, O Lord…”
I dare you NOT to immediately assign this piece to your choir!
University professors don’t sit around wondering whether they should teach the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria or Marty Haugen.
“We have received, O Lord, thy heavenly sacrament…”
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