Any Hope For Modern Catholic Hymnody? Yes!
Major publishers include Haugen’s verse “not in some heaven, light-years away”—what can be done about it?
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).
Major publishers include Haugen’s verse “not in some heaven, light-years away”—what can be done about it?
As an added bonus, the score contains solfege markings!
“I’m not one of those Novus Ordo = bad, Tridentine = good people…” —Carlos de Quesado
Colin Mawby, former Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, travels to Rome in this video, letting you see an original manuscript of Palestrina.
The phrase “ad populum conversus” does appear in the postconciliar books, and no amount of polemical articles can change this fact.
Priests often unknowingly drift into another tone, which is not allowed.
Some weren’t happy with Bill Murray’s opinions on the Latin Mass, and a certain editor—in his zeal to refute—made an egregious error.
Including a special PDF download of the “Asperges Me” you’ll want to obtain immediately!
“English Psalm-Tone Propers for the Ordinary Form of the Mass” is now available in print!
“While most worshipers were stumbling through the Introit or Collect, a few fluent in Latin would be loudly racing through the prayers.”
We’re called to discover Christ and conform our lives to His teachings.
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