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Views from the Choir Loft

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 9, 2025

Music Director Job • $80,000 per year

My pastor was elevated to this basilica two weeks ago.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 7, 2025

New “Latin/English Missal” for the Novus Ordo

This English/Latin missal is being created by several priests and seminarians.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 6, 2025

Simplest “Agnus Dei” Ever Published

For organ and voice, some have called this “the simplest setting ever composed.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 5, 2025

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

The chants have been posted!

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 22, 2025

PDF Download • Soprano Descant — “Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above”

There’s something thrilling about soprano descants!

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 17, 2025

PDF Download • “2025 Booklet for Participants for the Sacred Music Symposium” — (155 pages)

We feel this conference will be one for the history books!

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Corpus Christi Watershed · June 13, 2025

Pope Pius XII Hymnal?

This extremely rare hymnal was published in 1959.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · June 11, 2025

“Hybrid” Chant Notation?

See whether you agree that Father Weinmann made matters worse.

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Cynthia Ostrowski · June 11, 2025

Available! • Free Rehearsal Videos for Agnus Dei “Mille Regretz” after Gombert (d. 1560)

Artificial intelligence will never replace authentic polyphony.

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Corrinne May · June 9, 2025

PDF Download • “Polyphonic Extension” (Kevin Allen) for Gloria III

I will be conducting Palestrina’s ‘Ave Maria’ as well as teaching plainsong.

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 9, 2025

“Booklet of Eucharistic Hymns” (16 pages)

This will be used while our congregation processes around the city to various churches.

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Julie Huebner · June 9, 2025

PDF Download • “Text by Saint Francis of Assisi” (choral setting w/ organ: Soprano & Alto)

“I am near to end of my first year as a full-time choirmaster.” — Julie Huebner

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 7, 2025

“Music List” • Pentecost Sunday

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 3, 2025

“Truly Great Processional” • (Pipe Organ)

It’s an excerpt from a much longer composition by Sebastian Bach.

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 30, 2025

Proof Which All Can Immediately See!

There’s a reason for this!

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President’s Corner

    Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC which I created for this coming Sunday, the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The INTROIT for this Sunday explains why this Sunday is called “Apple Sunday.” As we approach the end of the liturgical year, most of the INTROITS seem to be in Mode III or Mode IV, which are ‘haunting’ tones.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “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

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

“However well equipped and trained a choir may be, all its good points may be obscured by an unsuitable accompaniment. In fact the organist can, in a large measure, either make or mar his choir. It must be owned, however, that the accompanist of Plainsong has to contend with many difficulties. […] The purist will still find his best enjoyment of the chant when it is sung unaccompanied, but to most a becoming accompaniment gives an added charm.”

— Benedictines of Stanbrook (1905)

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  • A Peculiar Plainsong Practice of the Anglicans

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