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Views from the Choir Loft

Jeff Ostrowski • Article Archive

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).

Jeff Ostrowski · December 13, 2014

Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Advent

Including “Creator Alme Siderum” with English Translation by Rev. Adrian Fortescue.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 11, 2014

What They Didn’t Tell You About Psalm Tone VIII

Even the “Liber Usualis” omits critical information about Tone VIII.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2014

Review: An English Gradual (Belmont Abbey, 2013)

For myself, I prefer the liturgy entirely in Latin or entirely in the vernacular. Others will disagree.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 9, 2014

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?

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 8, 2014

The Polyphonic Piece Your Choir Has Been Desiring!

As an added bonus, the score contains solfege markings!

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 6, 2014

Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Advent

Including scores, audio files, and organ accompaniments.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 5, 2014

Latin Mass In Los Angeles • THIS SUNDAY!

“I’m not one of those Novus Ordo = bad, Tridentine = good people…” —Carlos de Quesado

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 3, 2014

The Actual Authentic Writing Of Palestrina

Colin Mawby, former Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, travels to Rome in this video, letting you see an original manuscript of Palestrina.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 1, 2014

The Current Missal Specifies When To Face the Altar & When To Face The People

The phrase “ad populum conversus” does appear in the postconciliar books, and no amount of polemical articles can change this fact.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 29, 2014

Tutorial For Priests: Singing The Prayers After The “Asperges Me”

Priests often unknowingly drift into another tone, which is not allowed.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 26, 2014

Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Advent

Including scores, audio files, and organ accompaniments.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 24, 2014

Weakest Argument Ever Made Against “Ad Orientem”

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.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 21, 2014

The Traditional Way Of Having “Asperges Me”

Including a special PDF download of the “Asperges Me” you’ll want to obtain immediately!

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 19, 2014

New Propers Collection By Lawrence M. Rutherford

“English Psalm-Tone Propers for the Ordinary Form of the Mass” is now available in print!

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 18, 2014

“As you might imagine, it was a disaster.”

“While most worshipers were stumbling through the Introit or Collect, a few fluent in Latin would be loudly racing through the prayers.”

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President’s Corner

    Absolutely ‘Perfect’ Voice-Leading?

    This brief passage seems (in my humble opinion) to be a delightful specimen.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Calling Dr. Weaver!

    A remarkable exposition of the “mora vocis” (published in 1953 in the Netherlands) which doesn’t shy away from a certain item!

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    SLANE • “Simplified” Keyboard Arr.

    Do you know ‘SLANE’ the hymn tune?

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reader Feedback” • 22 June 2026
    A reader wrote to us from Virginia: “I really appreciate the 23 harmonizations that you posted on CORPUS CHRISTI WATERSHED for the Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary hymn. I hope to find willing voices in our small Schola Cantorum to try the three-voice version. Carry on, sir! You’re doing the Lord’s work.” While we don’t know this gentleman personally, we note that he earned a Ph.D. (which demonstrates that our blog has something for everybody). 😊
    —Corpus Christi Watershed

Random Quote

From 1827 until the last month of his life, Liszt gave lessons in composition and piano playing. He wrote in 1829 that his schedule was “so full of lessons that each day, from half-past eight in the morning till 10 at night, I have scarcely breathing time”

— Re: Abbé Franz Liszt

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