PDF Download • “What Child Is This” (Harmonized by the Von Trapp Family Singers)
Download this book—129 pages!—free of charge as a PDF: “The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs.”
Articles
God’s in His Holy Place, but in which Mode?
Ideas have consequences.
Bizarre Statements From “Leaflet Missal” Founder
Imagine blaming the rise of Adolf Hitler on the Church’s immemorial use of a ‘lingua sacra’ during Mass!
PDF Download • From Cambridge: “Saint John Fisher Responsorial Psalms Collection” (253 Pages)
This 2024 collection incorporates responsorial psalms by many composers, particularly Catholic composers associated with Cambridge University.
Reader Question • “Extra Verses” for the Propers
Jeff Ostrowski answers a reader’s question with nine (9) statements.
“Source and Summit” • What Is That?
Notice how Dom Franquesa (without explanation) stealthily annihilates sacrifice, sin, and the adoration we owe God.
Rorate Caeli + ICEL + Dynamic Equivalence
There’s an old adage: “Once stung, twice shy.”
Confirmed • Fr. David Friel elected Vice-President: “Society for Catholic Liturgy”
Father Friel holds a Doctorate in Liturgical Studies from the Catholic University of America…
PDF Download • New Version of “What Child Is This” (SATB) … as of 18 December 2024
A different version was requested. I was able to complete that task earlier today.
PDF Download • “The First Nowell” in Latin — Simplified Version (2024) for Choir & Organ
If you have items you’d like to learn (such as how to make multi-track rehearsal videos) please email them to us.
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.
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.
PDF Download • “What Child Is This?” (SATB arr.)
In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.
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
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
