O Crux Ave, partial recording
A stepping stone towards singing this motet with a small choir – a recording for the middle voice of Fr Friel’s 3 part motet.
Articles
Pope Francis on musical quality: “mediocrity, superficiality, and banality”
“Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality have prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of liturgical celebrations.”
Did You Forget This Fabulous Lenten Hymn?
The psalm verses are optional—making this piece as long or short as you desire.
Choirmasters, Your Job Is Hard Beyond A Doubt
What does sacred music have to do with the O. J. Simpson murder trial?
EF Divine Office Resource • Daily Recordings of Lauds
“At the crowing of the cock, hope returns…”
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (1891-1976)
“There remains throughout the presence of Bugnini—his bias, his anger, and his prejudice—making one continuously ask the unanswerable question: why?” ~ Msgr. Richard J. Schuler
The Purpose of Art
Considerations from Tolstoy
Making rehearsal CDs and finding mp3s
Burning CDs may seem old-fashioned, but many people still rely on their CD players. All the shortcuts, plus a free recording of Audi Benigne Conditor.
Four Real Reasons for Roman Catholic Funerals
The real purpose of a Roman Catholic funeral is not what most people think.
7 Points • “The Joy of Lent”
Does Lent really put people in a bad mood?
“Morae Vocis” acc. to the Vatican Edition
The «Kyriale» contains very few melismatic morae.
Music and the Imagination
Along the “via pulchritudinis” (the way of beauty) they will come to know Him Who is Beauty itself.
PDF Download • “Cantus Varii” (469 Pages)
The revolution continues!
2-1 Suspension in Guerrero Motet
“Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
Will All Men Be Saved? 1
Hope vs. Certainty