August 1970 • “Graduale Simplex Doc” (12 pages)
Similar to polyester vestments & wreckovations, its sad legacy is bound up with everything regrettable about the 1960s liturgical reforms.
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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).

Similar to polyester vestments & wreckovations, its sad legacy is bound up with everything regrettable about the 1960s liturgical reforms.

This can be sung by one woman and one man.

With an excerpt from the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

Simplified keyboard accompaniment for “Bethlehem! Of noblest cities” (Epiphany hymn).
Broadly speaking, only one has attained general use throughout the English-speaking world…

If you know a shorter one, please email me!

Imagine walking up into a choir loft and sounding like these young ladies without rehearsal.

Please play through it and let me know what you think.

I came very close to paying an unspeakably severe price.

If anyone wants to download this organ accompaniment, feel free to do so!

From what I can tell, the 1970 rubrics moved each “O Antiphon” to the Gospel Acclamation at Mass (in late December).

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for the feast of the Holy Family.

Including the “music list” I have prepared for Christmas Midnight Mass.

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for Christmas Midnight Mass.
This topic I had believed to be fairly well understood—but I was wrong.
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