“Veni Veni Emmanuel” • Original Setting (Two Voices)
This famous Advent hymn was not written in the 1800s—it goes back at least to the 15th century.
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Why Don’t Serious Catholics Address This?
If you want to test the USCCB policy, try this experiment.
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Rehearsal Videos • Victoria’s “Ave Maria” (SATB)
Including six reasons why Tomás Luis de Victoria may be the true composer of this piece.
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Rehearsal Videos • “O Magnum Mysterium” (Victoria)
With a masterpiece like this, we must be careful not to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Propers for Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 December)
Providing music for the Traditional Latin Mass is not nearly as hard as some believe.
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Musical Resources • Second Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)
“Gather ye together His Saints to Him; who have set His covenant before sacrifices…”
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Introit For The Immaculate Conception (8 December)
“Gaudens Gaudebo” is not a short Introit.
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The Most Important Thing A Choirmaster Can Do
Sometimes it takes decades to appreciate the genius of this or that Gregorian chant.
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Changing The Good Friday Prayer For The Jews
“Christianity is the perfect development of the Jewish religion…” —Fr. Leslie Rumble
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Musical Resources • First Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)
“Arise in thy strength, we beseech thee, O Lord, and come…”
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Clarity Regarding The Pius XII “Turkey” Indult
Whether this rumor is accurate makes no difference, because the rules for Friday abstinence were changed in the 1960s.
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Our Church Music Movement: How Are We Doing?
I never dreamed that so many people love this stuff…and are willing to fight for it!
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PDF Download • Hymnal by Fr. John Selner (1954)
Some of the old Catholic hymnals were dreadful, but this one is splendid.
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PDF Download • “Liber Brevior” (1954)
This special Solesmes book contains another version of the “Chants Abrégés.”
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Sacred Music & Babies
What’s our end game?
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