Solmization from the Inside: Part 2
What can medieval and renaissance music pedagogy offer to us now?
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PDF Download • SATB “Alleluia” by J.S. Bach
This short piece shimmers with beauty. The arrangement is by Monsignor René Moissenet.
“My Reflections” • Re: 2022 Symposium Keynote
“I ended up spending hours, transcribing each and every word from Father Fryar’s Symposium lecture. Although it took many hours, I relished the process.” —Corrinne May
PDF Download • 2-Voice Eucharistic Hymn by Flor Peeters (45 pages) • Includes a Descant!
Lyrics in English, with an (optional) version in Latin.
PDF Download • “Choir Warm-Up Exercise”
Your singers might enjoy this vocal warm-up exercise I composed for a volunteer choir.
PDF Download • “Organ Interludes—including pedals—on Plainchant Melodies” (55 pages)
Father Ould and William Sewell (organist at the Birmingham Oratory of Saint Philip Neri) produced an impressive collection.
PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for Kyrie VIII (“Missa de Angelis”) by Jeff Ostrowski
I consider this my best organ accompaniment … I hope you like it!
PDF Download • Extremely Rare! — 1913 “Vesperale” by Schwann (954 pages)
Today’s release will go down in history!
PDF Download • Organ Interludes Based on Plainsong (Manuals Only) — 104 pages!
A terrific collection of organ interludes (manuals only) for free PDF download.
Pothier Teaches Us to Sing an Antiphon
A look at Dom Pothier’s performance instructions for a communion antiphon reveals a great deal of complexity in this pre-Mocquereau interpretive approach.
PDF Download • Professionally-Scanned “Graduale Romanum” (Schwann, 1908) • 1,129 pages!
This is the “pure” Vatican Edition—technically the only version of the rhythm allowed by Church documents!
PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers” (22 pages)
In spite of its imperfections, creating this (draft) booklet required much more effort than I had anticipated.
“Stowe Missal Eucharistic Motets” • For 3 Voices
This melody won’t leave your head—it keeps playing “on repeat.”
PDF Download • “Spanish TLM Missal” (2,288 pages)
A french version (1,798 pages) is also available for free PDF download.
PDF Download • “A Canon Choirs Love!”
You will notice Father Guerrero takes the chant melody (“Beata Mater”) and creates a perfect canon between Soprano and Alto.
PDF Download • 2022 “Vespers Booklet” (99 Pages)
If you spot typos, please let us know!
{ Next Year! } • Somber Kyrie Settings For Lent
Corpus Christi Watershed has provided rehearsal videos to assist choir members who do not read music well.
PDF Download • SATB “Refrain” for Good Friday
Is it “traditional” to receive Holy Communion on Good Friday?
PDF Download • “Regina Caeli for 3 Voices”
I never shared this before because pride and perfectionism held me back.
“Victimæ Paschali Laudes” • Nineteen (19) Organ Accompaniments
Including a remarkable musical setting by Father Adrian Fortescue (d. 1923).