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Views from the Choir Loft

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 25, 2025

Typo in the “Missale Romanum” (1962)

Father Valentine Young, OFM, pointed out many errors and typos in the 1962 Missal.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 24, 2025

“Music List” • 30th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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

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Christopher Mueller · October 23, 2025

Children’s Repertoire • Mueller’s Recommendations

Further thoughts about children’s choirs…

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2025

PDF Download • “Marian Antiphon Booklet” (4 pages) + Five Rhythmic Considerations

This 4-page ‘insert’ contains the seasonal Marian antiphons and various settings of the “Kýrie” my parish will be learning.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2025

(Part 2) • Did they simplify this hymn?

Looking through a (Roman Catholic) German hymnal printed in 1929…

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Corpus Christi Watershed · October 20, 2025

PDF • “Lectionary Comparison Chart”

Such tinkering has gone on for 60+ years, and it’s reprehensible.

Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2025

“Can Choral Music Survive?” • 3 Reasons It Will

You may think I’m crazy, but I have a belief when it comes to choral music.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 18, 2025

“Music List” • 29th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Keven Smith · October 14, 2025

Children’s Repertoire • Three More Recommendations by Keven Smith

Don’t give up. Your work with young singers today will continue to bear fruit for decades after you die.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 14, 2025

Liturgical Round (“Canon”) in C-Major

I have provided an accompaniment, but it’s only for use during rehearsal.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 14, 2025

PDF Download • Liturgical Round (“Canon”) for your Children’s Choir

An example that’s truly great art, yet still within their reach.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · October 13, 2025

Latin Liturgy Association

The newsletter of the “Latin Liturgy Association” is definitely something worth looking at!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 11, 2025

“Music List” • 28th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Mark Haas · October 10, 2025

Every Diocesan Music Commission Should Do This

“To assist this process, I have compiled links to the documents…” —Mark Haas

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 9, 2025

PDF Download • “Offertory” for this Sunday

Anyone know why the Book of Esther was chosen? That same section of Esther was chosen for last Sunday’s Introit.

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —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

“The free space which the new order of Mass gives to creativity it must be admitted, is often excessively enlarged. The difference between the liturgy with the new liturgical books, as it is actually practiced and celebrated in various places is often much greater than the difference between the old and new liturgies when celebrated according to the rubrics of the liturgical books.”

— Cardinal Ratzinger (1998)

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