“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (13-Oct-2024)
This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.
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 one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.
Probably one of the most valuable PDF scores we’ve ever released.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I have prepared for this coming Sunday.
For years I’d been meaning to harmonize the famous KYRIE SIMPLEX—but I never got the opportunity until today. Feel free to download the PDF score if you wish. It is “Kyrie XVI,” which in the old books bore the title In Feriis Per Annum.
ICEL wasn’t the only group that produced reprehensible translations in the 1970s…
Let Busoni’s statement serve as a reminder to Catholic music directors everywhere.
This one’s in Mode 4, imitating in an admirable way the authentic Gregorian chant.
This coming Sunday—6 October 2024—is the 27th in Ordinary Time.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I have prepared for this coming Sunday.
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