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PDF Download • “Polyphonic Creed Extension” (Perfect Canon Between Soprano & Alto)
This fabulous technique is common in Germanic countries…
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A “Must Read” for Choir School Enthusiasts
I also feel this is the reason that many church musicians in England don’t matriculate into doctoral programs—their choir schools imparted more than a doctoral program could ever give.
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Free Online Movie! • “Scarlet and the Black” (1983)
Telling the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a Catholic priest who saved thousands of lives during WW2.
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“Talk Is Cheap” • Advice For Music Directors
If you fail to carefully plan your rehearsal, you’ll be eaten alive. And rightfully so!
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Organ Improvisation: To Record, or Not to Record?
If you missed it, you can hear my iPhone recording on YouTube. But will it be quite the same?
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PDF Download • Pentecost Sequence In English! — Gregorian Notation w/ Organ Accompaniment
Does plainsong work in English? It actually can!
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PDF Download • Colossally Stupendous “Missal for the Faithful” — 1,142 pages
This is a large file (172 MB), but trust me! You will love it.
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Hidden Gem: Tantum Ergo II (Kwasniewski)
If you enjoy juicy dissonances and hearing the sun dart in and out of the clouds, you’ll love this modern setting of an ancient text.
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Hymn Translations That Don’t Rhyme?
The Fulton J. Sheen Missal (1961) does something rather puzzling…
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Attack on “Female Organists” • (Not Kidding)
This liturgical controversy lasted for fifty years!
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“Te Deum Laudamus” • Booklet fits on a single page!
Don’t ask me how this booklet works … but it does.
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Hymn • “Christ is King” (Father Ivor Daniel) + Rehearsal Videos!
“Once there were lost islands, but most of them have been found…”
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1975 • Jerry Brown Vs. William F. Buckley: “Was Thomas Aquinas Liberal or Conservative?”
Ronald Reagan stopped being governor of California in 1975; then Jerry Brown was elected. Bizarrely, Brown ended his final term in 2019.
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“Easy Polyphonic Agnus Dei” • Part 1 of 3
A perfect canon is the hardest thing to compose—and this is one!
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