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Views from the Choir Loft

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Corpus Christi Watershed · February 10, 2025

Monsignor Ronald Knox—His Actual Voice!—Speaks of Saint John Henry Newman (1948)

It is beyond fascinating to hear his actual voice.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · February 7, 2025

“Win or Lose, a Fight Worth Fighting!” • (Email Received from a Priest)

We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Jeffrey Tucker, who prevented a non-Christian company from securing a monopoly on the (mandatory) English psalm translation!

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 6, 2025

PDF Download • “Communion Refrain” (Polyphony) for Three Voices — with Psalm 117

This injunction from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is crucial for artists.

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 5, 2025

PDF Download • “Psalm Comparison Chart”

This PDF chart will be of interest to Catholic musicians!

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 4, 2025

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

I would argue we must renew our good resolution and stand firm.

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 3, 2025

Jesuit Recruitment Video (1950s)

It’s difficult to understand why some modern-day Jesuits have not been reprimanded by their superiors.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · February 3, 2025

“Jeff, Your Assertions Are False and Misleading”

“This is a false assertion: one I’ve never heard, read about, or heard organ builders discuss.” —Kyle H.

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 3, 2025

Richard Nixon • “Federal Aid for Parochial Schools”

Colson claims Nixon signed an ‘executive order’ giving federal money to Roman Catholic schools.

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 1, 2025

Can Marian Hymns Be Sung During the Offertory?

My colleague, Corrinne May, has published an article for the “Totus Tuus” apostolate.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 31, 2025

PDF Download • Intensely Rare 1898 “Roman Gradual” — (Released for the First Time in History)

I carefully scanned all 642 pages in (color) high resolution.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 30, 2025

Thoughts on the “English” Method of Hymn-Printing

Protestants sometimes say: “One must never omit verses of a hymn, because hymns tell a story.”

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Corpus Christi Watershed · January 30, 2025

Reader Feedback • Re: “Simplified” Music (Part 2)

“I haven’t been doing parish music that long—only about 3 years at this point.” —Celeste M.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · January 30, 2025

“Entrance Chant” (Feast of the Presentation, 2 Febr.) • Sung by Three Young Women

This ‘live’ video shows three young women singing…

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Veronica Moreno · January 29, 2025

Finding the Choir in FSSP-Lyon

“For twenty years I sang in the front of a Novus Ordo parish despite wanting to sing in the back.” —Veronica Moreno

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 29, 2025

8 Reasons • “Why the Sacred Music Symposium Is Unlike Other Conferences”

Consider a few items you’ll learn at this year’s conference…

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President’s Corner

    “Reminder” — Month of September (2026)
    On a daily basis, I speak to people who don’t realize we publish a free newsletter (although they’ve followed our blog for years). Since we were founded in 2006, not one of our board members has ever accepted any remuneration whatsoever—not a penny. We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoying ads. As a result, our mailing list is crucial to our survival. It couldn’t be easier to subscribe! Just scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Cordero de Dios”
    Feel free to download this setting of the “Cordero de Dios” (AGNUS DEI) in Spanish. The congregation gets an interesting melody within reach, the organist gets a straightforward accompaniment, and the person assembling the ORDER OF WORSHIP gets a ‘ready-to-paste’ plainsong version. Try this setting of the “Santo, Santo, Santo” (SANCTUS) if you desire one that’s easy to sing and includes a simple organ accompaniment. For the record, I have harmonized the Spanish “GLORIA” found in the MISAL ROMANO, Tercera Edición. Click here to download that.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “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

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

“Saint Pius X restored to the faithful the two essential means of participation: communion and chant. Unfortunately, owing to prevailing ideas and circumstances, there was a tendency (it still persists) to separate the two, and one consequence of the increase of communions has been the desertion of high Mass; a distinction has grown up between communion Mass (anomalous term) and sung Mass, as if the two were incompatible.”

— Lancelot Capel Sheppard (22 Jan 1955)

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