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Veronica Brandt • Article Archive

Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. As editor, she has produced fine publications (as well as valuable reprints) dealing with Gregorian chant, hymnody, Latin, and other subjects. These publications are distinguished on account of their tastefulness. She lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her husband Peter and six children.—Read full biography (with photographs).

Veronica Brandt · April 1, 2025

When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962

There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass…

Veronica Brandt · January 24, 2025

Our Lady of Good Success Novena (+ Antiphon)

Today starts a Novena to Our Lady of Good Success. Curiously, there is an Antiphon included towards the end of each day’s prayers which looks very similar to this one.

Veronica Brandt · December 7, 2024

Epiphany Proclamation 2025

Each year, without fail, someone asks me to typeset the Epiphany Proclamation, an announcement of moveable feasts chanted each year on the feast of the Epiphany. As a result, you may now find an archive of 23 such proclamations in PDF ready to print HERE.

Veronica Brandt · October 4, 2024

PDF Download • “Vexilla Regis” in 3 or 4 parts, alternating chant & polyphony

A lovely and practical piece with fantastic safety features for any time adoring the Cross of Jesus.

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Veronica Brandt · August 5, 2024

Slavonic Sub Tuum: a 3 part gem of haunting beauty for your choir

An easy-peasy all-year-round Marian motet in three parts plus some reflections on typing up sheet music.

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Veronica Brandt · October 8, 2023

Example collect ending with et cetera (&c.)

Collect Conclusions – Per Dominum &c.

A printable page of collect conclusions in Latin and English. Enjoy!

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Veronica Brandt · April 4, 2023

Passiontide Carols?

… as Christians in the midst of the world, we have a solemn obligation to restore due reverence to these sacred times.

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Veronica Brandt · March 25, 2023

Vespers for Easter Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

A ramble about open source software and three PDF files for 1962 Vespers for Ferias 4-6 in the Octave of Easter.

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Veronica Brandt · March 18, 2023

Mass and Motets

This little booklet has had a long influence on choirs, but isn’t very widely known. How many of these pieces are you familiar with?

Veronica Brandt · November 19, 2022

Reverence: Feeling or Action?

Maybe we can agree that the Latin Mass has more external signs of reverence. Maybe that will clarify our position.

Veronica Brandt · September 17, 2022

Adding More Spaces around Bar Lines in Gregorio

Some useful tips on adjusting the spacing in Gregorio scores.

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Veronica Brandt · September 3, 2022

International Gregorian Chant Conference

An Online International Gregorian Chant Conference! Eight days of great talks plus time for questions and answers.

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Veronica Brandt · July 22, 2022

The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

Singing the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception gets a whole lot more approachable.

Veronica Brandt · May 24, 2022

Review • A Catholic Book of Hymns

A budget, orthodox option for your parish music program.

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Veronica Brandt · December 26, 2021

My submission to the Synod 2023

I felt that the Listening and Discernment Guides would make something of a Christmas Party Diversion while my family was all gathered together. We had a lively discussion, following the Guides with a suitable lack of rigidity. I hope the synod itself will be as much fun for the bishops.

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    “Music List” • Pentecost Sunday
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for Pentecost Sunday (8 June 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. Because our choir is on break this week, the music is relatively simple.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Truly Great Processional” • (Pipe Organ)
    I stumbled upon this live recording of a PROCESSIONAL I played on the pipe organ in 2002. It’s an excerpt from a much longer composition by Sebastian Bach. In those days, there weren’t sophisticated recording devices allowing one “fix” wrong notes. (Perhaps they existed, but we didn’t have machines like that.) So it was necessary to play the entire piece from beginning to end. If you’re a church organist, feel free to download the PDF score. I suppose it’s only a matter of time until some joker uses “artificial intelligence” to play music at church … but there’s something so satisfying about playing an organ in real life.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Proof Which All Can Immediately See!
    “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” as the famous maxim goes. Over the years, I’ve observed malicious attacks on the Brébeuf Catholic Hymnal. Rather than scoring a ‘hit’ on the Brébeuf Hymnal, its attackers often reveal profound ignorance. I’ve been advised never to reply … but I break that rule today. Certain voices online assert that the Brébeuf Hymnal is “untraditional” because it includes both the Urbanite and pre-Urbanite versions of the hymns. But if only they would glance at a copy of the 1913 VESPERALE (printed by order of Pope Saint Pius X) they would see how mistaken such statements are.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

From 1827 until the last month of his life, Liszt gave lessons in composition and piano playing. He wrote in 1829 that his schedule was “so full of lessons that each day, from half-past eight in the morning till 10 at night, I have scarcely breathing time”

— Re: Abbé Franz Liszt

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