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“Please don’t get cocky and think of your methods as somehow innately superior or universally and inarguably superior in their benefits.” —Email from a Reader
My setting begins with the entire congregation singing—but the middle section is SATB polyphony.
Including a tip on preventing choirs from ‘sinking’ the pitch lower and lower.
Using a favorite melody of Dr. Theodore Marier.
Perhaps you’re saying to yourself: “Jeff comes across as super ungrateful.”
Including a Eucharistic Hymn (#142) every Catholic should know!
He screamed into the telephone: “There’s no such thing as Gregorian Chant!”
Instead, Saint Francis knelt down and kissed the priest’s hands…
We must remember the lesson of the rock.
Today, I release another movement of the “Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting” (for use in the Ordinary Form).
As if the canonic sections were insufficiently stupendous, the composer works in stepwise ascending lines juxtaposed with lines in augmentation.
Today we release an exceedingly rare 1661 edition of the Graduale Romanum, in high resolution and in full color!
Here’s a technique you must try with your choir.
Twenty years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct a week-long interview with Dom Cardine’s former boss.
Should music at the Ordinary Form be identical to music at the Extraordinary Form?
