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Views from the Choir Loft

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 25, 2025

Kid’s Repertoire • “Jeffrey’s 3 Recommendations”

Growing up, I remember hearing this adage…

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 24, 2025

PDF Download • ‘Choral Extension’ for the Sanctus (especially useful in the Ordinary Form)

It’d be easier to accept if they admitted they were explicitly contradicting Vatican II … but instead, they lied egregiously.

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Mark Haas · November 20, 2025

Kid’s Repertoire • 3 Recommendations (Mark Haas)

“My children’s choir absolutely loves this piece.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 18, 2025

PDF Download • “Hymn for Christ the King”

“Catholic parishes are slow to change their habits. They still sing what the oldest members learned at school.” —Evelyn Waugh

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 17, 2025

“Music List” • Christ the King Sunday

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 16, 2025

PDF Download • “Pope Pius XII Psalter” — English, Latin, and Commentary (532 pages)

I know of no greater commentary on the psalms. Its author—an erudite Dominican priest—founded the famous “Homiletic and Pastoral Review.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 15, 2025

“Simplified” Keyboard Accompaniment (PDF)

A simplified keyboard accompaniment for the “O Jesus Christ, Remember” hymn.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 10, 2025

Re: The People’s Mass Book (1974)

“A Man Can Kill With a Gun, a Bomb, or a Lance…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 8, 2025

PDF Download • “Music List” for 9 November

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 8, 2025

PDF Download • Offertory (9 Nov.)

“Mother and Head of all churches of the City and of the World” says the inscription over the entrance.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 7, 2025

Job Opening • $65,000 per year +

Exciting job opening in Michigan for a Roman Catholic choir director!

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 3, 2025

“Offertory” at Catholic Funerals

This setting cleverly inserts themes from the absolution of the body.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 1, 2025

“In Paradisum” • Gregorian Chant

While the coffin is being carried to the grave, the following anthem is sung.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 1, 2025

Gospel Options for 2 November (“All Souls”)

We’ve been told some bishops are suppressing the TLM because of “unity”…

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 31, 2025

“Music List” • All Souls (2 November)

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

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President’s Corner

    PDF Download • “Cordero de Dios”
    Feel free to download this setting of the “Cordero de Dios” (AGNUS DEI) in Spanish. The congregation gets an interesting melody within reach, the organist gets a straightforward accompaniment, and the person assembling the ORDER OF WORSHIP gets a ‘ready-to-paste’ plainsong version. Try this setting of the “Santo, Santo, Santo” (SANCTUS) if you desire one that’s easy to sing and includes a simple organ accompaniment. For the record, I have harmonized the Spanish “GLORIA” found in the MISAL ROMANO, Tercera Edición. Click here to download that.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Be Joyful Mary” • Organ Interlude

    Peter Piel (1835–1904), was a Roman Catholic composer named “Royal Music Director” under Wilhelm I, King of Prussia.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
    Dutch organist, teacher, and conductor HERMAN STRATEGIER (d. 1988) studied under Hendrik Andriessen. He composed this unison setting with organ accompaniment for the LORD’S PRAYER (“Our Father”) which a children’s choir would find both within reach and worthy of the effort. The whole thing fits neatly on a single page. Strategier eventually became organist of Saint Catherine’s Cathedral in Utrecht. He also taught at the “Dutch Institute for Catholic Church Music” (Nederlands Instituut voor Katholieke Kerkmuziek).
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“Worse, composers are now setting the introits of the missal [instead of the Graduale] to music, even to chant, though these texts were explicitly for spoken recitation only.”

— ‘Dr. William Mahrt (Fall, 2015)’

Recent Posts

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  • “A Mode of Singing & Chanting Mass for Children”

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