How To Sing The Gregorian Alleluia
The Alleluia can be confusing, especially during Eastertide.
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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).
The Alleluia can be confusing, especially during Eastertide.
This lovely image is courtesy of D.F. — taken at Georgetown University.
Congregations in South Texas normally applaud for the musicians during Mass.

I’m unaware of ANY other liturgical occurrence like this one.

“…otherwise the entire Mass might be placed into the vernacular; whereupon the Council fathers burst into uproarious laughter.” — Cardinal Stickler speaking of Vatican II

This is no hybrid: it’s an elegant, accurate, modern, unified English translation of the Graduale!

Free PDF downloads for “Mass of the Angels” organ accompaniments • Henri Potiron (1950), Achille Bragers (1937), Dr. Eugene Lapierre (1946), Franz Xaver Mathias (1906), Dr. Peter Wagner (1905), Monsignor Leo P. Manzetti (1906), Julius Bas (1906), and more+
Musicians tend to be very “picky” people who don’t get along with one another.

Scripture at Mass is an act of worship: it is not purely didactic, nor is it a make-believe drama that we must re-enact with emotion.

Archbishop Sheen did not produce this Missal alone: it was a joint effort by many, especially the Jesuit priests Rev. Philip Caraman and Rev. James Walsh.

What can one say about the “Art of the Fugue” by J. S. Bach? Marvelous. Simply marvelous.
These same exact rubrics have been found in Missals published in 1962, 1927, 1943, 1906, and 1886.

I love hymns … sung properly, that is!

This summer, the Catholic University of America is offering training in the Ward method.
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