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Jeff Ostrowski · August 31, 2026

PDF Download • “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” — Simple Organ Interludes (5 pages)

I love the little “wandering” left-hand accompaniment beginning in the variation on page 3.

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Mark Haas · August 28, 2026

Active Passivity? Yes. Let me explain.

“What a needed reminder for our time.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 27, 2026

“A Mode of Singing & Chanting Mass for Children”

Regarding this topic, the late Dr. William Peter Mahrt of Stanford University once made a statement I’ll never forget.

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Dr. Lucas Tappan · August 25, 2026

Sacred Music in the Sunflower State!

I’m pleased to include these video clips filmed in the cathedral of Detroit by my colleague, Dr. Horst Buchholz.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 21, 2026

The Vanishing Art of Knowing Hymns • We Seek a Hymn “Expert” (Not Just a Hymn “Enthusiast”)

Twenty-three (23) harmonizations of a famous German hymn tune, carefully transcribed from Roman Catholic hymnals printed between 1886 and 1961.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · August 17, 2026

Composer Isabella Quintana: “Christ my teacher, Christ my healer, Christ my Savior.” • (Guest Article)

“Daily Mass is a part of the rhythm of my life and the source of life and grace for my soul.” —Isabella Quintana

Jeff Ostrowski · August 13, 2026

PDF Download • Roman Catholic Hymnal (1953) with Lyrics in Dutch! — 71 pages

Also Included: a Conversation about famous hymns in Duple or Triple rhythm.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 11, 2026

(Simplified Keyboard Accompaniment) • “Now Thank We All Our God”

(Part 2) • Should congregational hymnals include SATB parts?

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 10, 2026

Test Your Gregorian Chant Knowledge!

This melody was found in a Carthusian plainsong book (published hundreds of years ago).

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 9, 2026

“Worst Teacher the World Has Ever Seen”

I recently learned that Pope Leo XII honored him with the “Order of the Golden Spur.”

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Corpus Christi Watershed · August 6, 2026

“Panis Angelicus” • Organ Accompaniment (7 Pages)

“Those two options are as good as any (and better than most).” —Jeff Ostrowski

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2026

1,187 Pages • “Dripping With Color, Craft, and Splendor” (Missale Romanum, 1933)

That such a richly-illustrated missal could have been created—much less mass produced—in the 1930s is beyond belief.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 3, 2026

“Plainsong Propers” • Fascinating 1980s Recordings

Father John Buchanan was a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul–Minneapolis.

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Daniel Marshall · August 3, 2026

“First Things First” • The Order We’ve Reversed: Seven (7) Points for Consideration

Seven thoughts on ‘progressive’ solemnity.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 1, 2026

PDF Download • 1950s Hand Missal including “Priest Photographs” at Mass (944 pages)

Taken with great skill, the photos involved the Right Rev’d Joseph F. Cussen, Rev’d Thomas P. Conley, Rev’d George B. Ford, and Rev’d John F. Carvlin.

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    “Be Joyful Mary” • Organ Interlude

    Peter Piel (1835–1904), was a Roman Catholic composer named “Royal Music Director” under Wilhelm I, King of Prussia.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
    Dutch organist, teacher, and conductor HERMAN STRATEGIER (d. 1988) studied under Hendrik Andriessen. He composed this unison setting with organ accompaniment for the LORD’S PRAYER (“Our Father”) which a children’s choir would find both within reach and worthy of the effort. The whole thing fits neatly on a single page. Strategier eventually became organist of Saint Catherine’s Cathedral in Utrecht. He also taught at the “Dutch Institute for Catholic Church Music” (Nederlands Instituut voor Katholieke Kerkmuziek).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF • “Organ Interlude” (Manuals Only)
    Monsignor Franciszek Walczyński (d. 1937) was a Polish composer. If you play the pipe organ, I encourage you to try out this ORGAN INTERLUDE FOR MANUALS ONLY (1-page PDF) which he composed. Walczyński taught plainsong at the seminary in Tarnów (about 50 miles east of Kraków). With his brother Stanisław—also a Catholic priest—he initiated the Saint Adalbert Society for the Support of Church Music, which ran annual workshops for their diocese. In July of 1894 (more than a decade before the appearance of the Editio Vaticana) Walczyński lectured on “congregational singing and Gregorian Chant.” On top of all that, Monsignor Walczyński founded an organists’ school in Tarnów and the SAINT ADALBERT CHOIR at the cathedral.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • 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: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ 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 book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

If it is the explicit will of the Council that the faithful are to be able to sing the “Gloria” or the “Credo” together in Latin [which it is] then indirectly there is being expressed here the obligation of regularly celebrating Mass with Latin Gregorian chant. And not merely occasionally, but with such frequency and constancy as to make the singing of these Latin texts a genuine possession of the faithful.

— Heinrich Flatten, Apostolic Protonotary & Canon Law Professor (Bonn)

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  • Sacred Music in the Sunflower State!

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