PDF • “Music List” for the 3rd Sunday of Advent
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
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Church Keys Old and New
Musical scholars are divided on whether the modes are a useful way to think about music, but I’m convinced they are. In the seventeenth century, musicians created a fruitful and lasting link between the eight modes and eight particular keys called the church keys.
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PDF Download • “What Child Is This?” (SATB arr.)
In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.
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An Organ-Less Advent
“It results in a heavy burden being placed upon musicians to ensure that whatever they do is well-liked by all—lest the faithful complain (seemingly the great worry of many priests).” —Dr. Lucas Tappan
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Richard J. Clark Featured in ‘Boston Pilot’ Newspaper: “Our Children & Sacred Music”
“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark
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35 Children Chanting “Sálve Regína” From Memory
“This particular article talked about the Catholic Church in Milwaukee…” —Julie Huebner
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Announcement of Easter & the Moveable Feasts • El Anuncio de la Pascua y Fiestas Movibles • 2025
Epiphany Proclamation scores and practice videos in English and Spanish
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PDF Download • “Musical Outline” for the Feast of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception
Rachmaninoff said: “Nine hours? That’s nothing. For a period of my life, I used to practice 17 hours a day.”
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“A Peculiar Discrepancy” • Immac. Concep. (8 Dec.)
Who can explain this?
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PDF Download • Pristine Scan: Father Mathias’ 1905 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (186 pages)
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
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“Promptly, Firmly, & Persistently Repressed.”
The book is called: “Cantica Sacra: Hymns for the children of the Catholic Church.”
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Saint John of the Cross • Arrested & Imprisoned By His Own Carmelite Brothers
Many years ago, I was very calmly trying to de-escalate a disagreement I was having with someone close to me…
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PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
What is he talking about? Where can I go to hear these “aesthetically superior” interpretations? Where can they be found?
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Bouyer on Liturgical Reform: “More intolerant and fussy than anything we’ve ever known.”
“Perhaps in no other area is there a greater distance between what the Council worked out and what we actually have.” —Professor Louis Bouyer
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PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for this Coming Sunday (Christ the King) — 34th in Ordinary Time
Including three separate points on Dom Combe’s shameful and defamatory statement.
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