Does Your Musical Program Have Balance?
What I’ve labeled “musical diversity” could also be thought of as “balance.”
PDF Download • Quinquagesima Vespers
I created a booklet for my choir. (The congregation already has their own booklet). This booklet is for Quinquagesima Vespers, and you can download it if you desire. Print on “double sided” and the booklet will come out correctly. The polyphonic Magnificat is not included in that booklet, since the choir members have it in […]
FEEDBACK • 25 February 2022
We love receiving mail from our readers. Here are two messages we received today from two different music directors in Canada: (1) “We are a small Schola in Yukon, Canada and love your practice videos repertoire.” (2) “Thank you so much for the indispensable work that you are doing to rebuild the musical life of […]
PDF Download • Missa Philomena (Philippe Verdelot)
This music is from a much earlier period; and you can tell.
“Common” Hymn Tunes? • Another Example
The first text is for the “pre-Lent” season…
Cardinal Cupich’s Diocese • “What Mass Looks Like”
The “primary cross” for most young men has to do with temptations against the 6th Commandment.
PDF Download • No More OCP “Breaking Bread”
This powerful response—by a Catholic priest—is without question one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever read.
A Fugue that “explains” itself
One of my choir members sent me this Ontological Fugue. If you can get past the performance—which is terrible (perhaps on purpose)—you will learn an awful lot about fugues. In my opinion, whoever created that score is a genius! It would be awesome to know from a professional theorist, such as Charles Weaver, whether they […]
Eucharistic Hymn • By a Jesuit Martyr Priest
English has words whose meanings directly contradict each other (such as “cleave” or “sanction”).
Sound superb! … with just 2 minutes of rehearsal
I’m someone who harbors an irrational fear of anything I’m not familiar with.
“Alleluia” • Gone For Good?
Two days ago, Bishop Ronald Fabbro of London (Ontario) released a rigid decree. Much could be said, but let’s take just one item. Bishop Fabbro demands that everyone adhere to “the celebration of Mass as found in the new Roman Missal (2011).” Then, in the very next sentence, he rigidly demands that all priests celebrate […]
Attention! • “15,283 Signatures … More Needed”
I’m generally against online petitions, but here’s the thing…
Breaking! • Bishop Lobsinger Forbids Spanish and French (for Confession & Last Rites)
Spanish may no longer be used (starting 3/6/2022) for the Sacrament of Confession or the Last Rites.
Ruth Slenczynska & “Traditionis Custodes”
Bishop Arthur Roche recently sent out puzzling instructions which encourage “Ordinary Form” Catholics to ostracize and belittle those who prefer the Traditional Mass.
Fr. Fortescue • “Sequences”
Originally, the Sequence began as farcing of the long neum at the end of the ALLELUIA (the “jubilus”), as did the alleluiatic verse. This does not mean that all the notes of our sequences were originally neums of a jubilus; but once the idea was admitted, numberless sequences were composed and added at this point. […]