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Views from the Choir Loft

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 21, 2025

PDF Download • “Side-By-Side Comparison”

Re: the special hymn for the upcoming feast (9 November).

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 20, 2025

PDF Download • Communion (25th Sn. Ord.)

This Communion antiphon glistens with resplendence!

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 15, 2025

How do you pronounce this word in Latin?

Including a comparison chart (PDF) which many readers will appreciate.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 15, 2025

Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!

It’s always great to see old diocesan newspapers…

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Andrea Leal · September 15, 2025

Children’s Repertoire: “3 Recommendations”

My top repertoire recommendations for easy, delightful, attainable songs.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 15, 2025

PDF Download • Dom Murray Harmonies

Along with so many others, I have deep respect for Dom Gregory Murray as a composer.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 14, 2025

“Music List” • 14 September (Holy Cross)

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for 14 September.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 9, 2025

“Novus Ordo Parish … With Polyphony?” • Is that possible? How specifically does that work?

Many have asked: “Without getting fired, how can choirmasters introduce polyphony to the Ordinary Form?”

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 7, 2025

PDF Download • Croft’s “Canonic Kyrie” (SATB)

The conscientious choirmaster never rests from his relentless pursuit of repertoire ideas.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 6, 2025

“Music List” • 23rd in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 6, 2025

PDF Download • Draft Copy (Pamphlet)

Please feel free to chime in!

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 5, 2025

“Entrance Chant” • 23rd (Ordinary Time)

The Communion Chant includes gorgeous verses in fauxbourdon.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 4, 2025

PDF Download • 3 September

If I can find time, there’s much I would love to say about this 1904 congress.

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 2, 2025

PDF Download • “Full, Conscious, & Active Participation” (12-page pamphlet)

During my research, I discovered three previously-unseen photographs of Hannibal Bugnini (taken in November of 1979).

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Guest Author · August 30, 2025

Installment #6 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

“If we had known what the prayers really said, we would not have wanted to pray them any longer.” —Paul Inwood

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President’s Corner

    “Reprehensible Rhymes” • (1955 Hymnal)

    It really does seem as though this gentleman was only considered an ‘expert’ in Roman Catholic hymnody when compared to others…

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Singers’ Booklet”

    The Communion antiphon this week is the powerful “Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Feast of All Saints (Nov. 1st)

    The formatting of this booklet is ‘messy’—but it’s only ever seen by the singers (not the congregation).

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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

They were not ashamed to lay their hands on Sedulius, on Prudentius, on St. Ambrose himself. Only in one or two cases does some sense of shame seem to have stopped their nefarious work. They left “Ave maris stella,” “Jam lucis orto sidere,” and St. Thomas Aquinas’s hymns alone (they would have made pretty work of “Sacris solemniis”). In 1629 their mangled remnants were published.

— Rev’d Adrian Knottesford Fortescue (25 March 1916)

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