(Quiz) • “How Well Do You Know Your Hymns?”
Including a tip on preventing choirs from ‘sinking’ the pitch lower and lower.
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Articles
Enter the Gregorian Rhythm Wars
My goal is to clarify and illumine what I believe exactly is at stake when we debate the rhythm in chant. I shall first attempt to summarize the core arguments that each of the main authors in this blog series use.
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Implementing a Private Lesson Program for Your Choir
How to sell the idea to your singers, and what to teach them. (Part 2 of 2)
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Natália Explains: “Why You Should Care About Shared Melodies.”
Everything’s going great, until you start playing…
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Traditional Latin Mass with Vernacular (!) Ordinary at High Mass in the 1600s
I will let you in on a secret!
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A Concert in Honor of William Byrd
The better the voice is, the meeter it is to honour and serve God therewith: and the voice of man is chiefly to be employed to that end.
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Eucharistic Hymn by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Using a favorite melody of Dr. Theodore Marier.
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“Ever Ancient, Ever New” • Sacred Concert in North Florida
“It is even more encouraging when a concert with 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐 Catholic music is done.” —Mæstro Fritz
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“Can No One Defend This?” • Why Everyone Should Sing From the Official Edition
I can never go back!
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Jeff Ostrowski’s Discovery • (Does Anyone Care?)
Feel free to examine every single page if you doubt what I’m saying!
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Can a Lens Make a Difference?
My husband tells me this edition (by Dom Pothier’s student) is of monumental importance. I take him at his word.
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Lack Choir Boys? • A Foolproof Way to Get Them!
What happened to this masculine presence in all things musical in the United States?
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Dr. Alfred Calabrese on William Byrd’s “Sanctus” • (Mass for Five Voices)
“The Byrd Masses were printed without title pages, and with no reference to a composer. It was too dangerous to do so.” —Dr. Calabrese
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Natalia’s Message • “Explaining The Two Sections!”
If you asked random Catholics to recite in English—without reference to a book—a stanza from the “Tantum Ergo” of Saint Thomas Aquinas, how many do you think could?
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Does It Make Sense to Alphabetize Hymnals?
Perhaps you’re saying to yourself: “Jeff comes across as super ungrateful.”
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