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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 17, 2014

How Well Did Your Parents Know The Mass?

PDF Download: Order of Mass (Latin & English) printed in THE CROWN HYMNAL of 1911.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 15, 2014

“The Gloves Are Off” — Jonathan Gruber & The Traditional Mass

“The faith of many was quite infantile, I would say.” —Paul Inwood, talking about preconciliar Catholics

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 13, 2014

“The Experience After The Council Was So Strong And In Some Cases Violent…” —Cardinal Burke

6 December 2014 interview with Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke by GloriaTV.

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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

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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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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “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

Random Quote

In the United States, Archbishop Kenrick had said in his “Moral Theology” that it was acceptable to sing the “Véni Sáncte Spíritus” before the sermon.

— Monsignor Schmitt (1977)

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