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Some people accept a job as choir director and say, “I have five singers who don’t read music, so I guess that’s how it will always be.”
A beautiful image from 15th-century Austria.
This extremely rare Catholic hymn book is here made available for the first time ever as a PDF download.
It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful text than Sedulius’ Hymn: Hostis Herodes Impie.
Resist the temptation to believe that Francis is 80,000 times as important as Benedict since he receives 80,000 times as much media coverage.
“They call me a Papist and they laugh at my creed…”
You’ll want to immediately download these scores, videos, and Mp3 files!
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
Many of you asked me to share the results, which I have done below.
Many don’t realize that all the EF chants for the Holy Family can be used at OF—cf. section 397 of the Ordo Cantus Missæ.
“The vitality of the Classical Rite is as fresh as ever.”
Archbishop Sheen said nary a word about any liturgical reforms following the Council.
There’s a discrepancy in this Sunday’s EF Introit.
Here is an except from a Church bulletin published in December of 2014.
“So many of the wonderful Preludes & Fugues by Bach—as splendid as they are—do not work as Processional pieces: they’re simply too long.”
