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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1939 Little Grammar of Gregorian Chant (Gogniat)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1818 Antiphonale (Bourguignon)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1891 Dom Joseph Pothier Antiphonale

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1840s (?) Gregorian Accompaniment (Félix Bélédin)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1928 Bas Vesperale Organ Accompaniment

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1887 Reims/Cambrai Edition of the Graduale

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1928 Proprium Sanctorum (F.X. Mathias)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1906 Gregorian Notes and Neums

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1906 Burkard Manual of Plain Chant

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1909 Mechlin Graduale (Fragment)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1923 Gastoué Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1964 Rayburn Gregorian Chant Rhythm

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1910 (Anglican) Organum Comitans ad Kyriale

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1874 Die Schule des katholischen Organisten

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1930 Feast of the Sacred Heart (Organ Accompaniment)

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President’s Corner

    15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    This coming Sunday—13 July 2025—is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). All the chants have been conveniently assembled and posted at the feasts website. The OFFERTORY, Ad Te Levávi, is particularly beautiful.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music Director Job • $80,000 per year
    Our readers will be interested in this job offering for Music Director at Saint Adalbert’s Basilica, located 40 minutes from where I live. My pastor was recently elevated to this basilica. He is offering $80,000 per year, plus benefits. I’m told Saint Adalbert’s Basilica is utterly gorgeous and contains one of America’s most magnificent pipe organs. It would be fantastic to have a colleague nearby!
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Simplest “Agnus Dei” Ever Published
    Our choir is on break during the month of July. I needed a relatively simple “Agnus Dei,” so I composed this setting for organ & voice in honor of Saint René Goupil. It has been called the simplest setting ever composed. I love CARMEN GREGORIANUM (“Gregorian Chant”), especially the ALLELUIAS, INTROITS, and COMMUNION ANTIPHONS. That being said, some have pointed out that certain sections of the Kyriale aren’t as strong as the Graduale or Vesperale. There’s a reason for this—but it would be too complicated to explain at this moment.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Pope Pius XII Hymnal?
    Have you ever heard of the Pope Pius XII Hymnal? It’s a real book, published in the United States in 1959. Here’s a sample page so you can verify with your own eyes it existed.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed

Random Quote

When you consider that the greatest hymns ever written—the plainchant hymns—are pushing the age of eight hundred and that the noble chorale hymn tunes of Bach date from the early eighteenth century, then what is the significance of the word “old” applied to “Mother at Thy Feet Is Kneeling”? Most of the old St. Basil hymns date from the Victorian era, particularly the 1870s and 1880s.

— Paul Hume (1956)

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