When Hymn Names Don’t Match
I submit to you that calling the same tune by multiple names in the same hymnal is unacceptable.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
I submit to you that calling the same tune by multiple names in the same hymnal is unacceptable.
An extremely rare book from 1941, containing all your favorite Gregorian chants!
“New evidence of wondrous pow’r | Behold in Cana’s marriage-dow’r; | Swift its own nature to resign, | The water blushes into wine.” —Msgr. Knox
“Heaven is not light-years away; that’s a silly way to think about it.” —Most Rev’d Robert Barron
Mass should be a peaceful experience for the congregation, not an opportunity to be harassed.
Many people don’t realize that gorgeous plainsong books were printed in the 19th century…but they were not in Latin.
A recording of Bach’s A-minor Prelude & Fugue made by the master at age 78.
It looks so simple when placed in a booklet like that…
I could not have been more thrilled to see this list—those are exactly the tunes I love!
Go to the 1:07 marker and you will hear something worth dying for…
“And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him up in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”
The physical and mental demands made upon a choirmaster are considerable.
Each verse written out, with a translation by Fr. Adrian Fortescue.
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