Palm Sunday Outline • Extraordinary Form
During the procession, all or some of the following selections may be sung…
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Musical Resources • Palm Sunday (1962)
There are two ways to distribute palm branches in the Extraordinary Form.
Essential Resources for Holy Week
Knowing What Is Needed
Scales and counterpoint
Two part choir exercises – one for every day of the year plus a few dozen to spare.
Five Things Directors and Choirs Must Remember This Week
You may forever change the lives of someone you do not know in ways you will never know.
Diversity Of Thought
When it comes to reforming the liturgy, they want “all voices heard.”
“O Sacred Head Surrounded”
An easier organ accompaniment, provided by Dr. Eugène Lapierre, teacher of Roger Wagner.
Free PDF • Polyphonic Gloria With Practice Videos
Uses Gregorian chant with polyphonic _Falsibordone_ by Caesare de Zachariis (†1594).
Video • Vocation Story Of Bishop Robert C. Morlino
“Scranton is a very Catholic town. Every guy, growing up considered the priesthood.” —Bishop Morlino
Do You Know The Hymn Of Saint Casimir?
The *original* meter & rhyme scheme were miraculously kept in English, Polish, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hungarian!
Regensburger Domspatzen
I would still love to see a choir of this quality in every major Catholic church in America.
Musical Resources • 5th Sunday of Lent “Passion”
The “Gloria Patri” is not said at the Introit from this day until Easter Sunday, except on Feasts.
Adoremus & the Way Forward
Continuing the Work of Helen Hull Hitchcock
Video • “A House Divided”
“We must not allow ourselves to become judgmental with our brothers and sisters who don’t appreciate what we appreciate.” —Archbishop Sample
Professional Recording • “Salve Festa Dies”
Including a video demonstration: “What makes polyphony so beautiful?”