English Plainchant Revival • “Is It Real?”
Let Busoni’s statement serve as a reminder to Catholic music directors everywhere.
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“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (6-Oct-2024)
This one’s in Mode 4, imitating in an admirable way the authentic Gregorian chant.
You Forgot About This One!
I’d be interested to see the actual citations for this…
An Anglican “Mess”
If I live to be 100 years old, there’s something I’ll never understand.
Communion Antiphon • “For Any Mass?”
Rehearsal videos are included—and they’re pretty fantastic!
PDF Download • “Offertories and Communion Hymns for Unison + Organ” (Carlo Rossini, 1951)
I provide three (3) reasons you’ll want to download this book immediately.
“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (29-Sep-2024)
This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant in a magnificent way.
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” in English (26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)
Sometimes one hears the objection: “But Gregorian Chant was not originally accompanied on the organ…”
PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” by Father Edgard de Laet — For Any Mass!
A musical setting for “An Alphabet of Right-doing” (as Monsignor Knox famously called it).
“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (22-Sep-2024)
This one’s in Mode 4—and it imitates the authentic Gregorian chant in a magnificent way.
PDF Download • “The Saint John’s Gradual”
Free download of Saint John’s Gradual with Ecclesiastical Approbation from his Eminence Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O. F. M., Cap., Archbishop of Boston
Music List • (24th Sund. Ordinary Time)
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I have prepared for this coming Sunday.
Musical Setting • “Confíteor Déo Omnipoténti”
The participants went nuts over this musical setting. They just couldn’t get enough of it!
Desperate Appeal • (11-Sep-2024)
On 11 September 2024, the president of CCWatershed released…
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Plainchant in English)
Today I discuss a myth about accompanying plainsong on the pipe organ.