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President’s Corner

    โ€œHoly, Holy, Holyโ€ transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List โ€ข (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my โ€œmusic listโ€ for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    A Mystery! โ€” Re: the โ€œLiber Usualisโ€

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the โ€œPrรฆfatio de Sancto Josephโ€ inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    โ€œPredictable Rhymes?โ€ โ€ข A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: โ€œHave I said anything I oughtnโ€™t?โ€ Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRร‰BEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    โ€˜Ouldโ€™ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old bookโ€”or, in this case, an โ€œOuldโ€ bookโ€”is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (โ€œAbuse By Reuseโ€) and are utterly predictable. In my recent articleโ€”Two Ways to Defile a Hymnโ€”I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

โ€œRarely indeed,โ€ asserted Pope Benedict XV (2 October 1921), โ€œhas the idealism of art and the glory of the faith been joined in such perfect harmonyโ€ as in the works of Palestrina and fellow polyphonists.

— Quoted by Gerard Ellard SJ (Church history professor at St. Maryโ€™s College, KS)

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