PDF Download • Professionally-Scanned “Missale Romanum” (1957) with American Feasts
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn!
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn!
Confirmed: Full archives of “Triumph” (a 1960s Roman Catholic magazine) are available online!
Twenty years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct a week-long interview with Dom Cardine’s former boss.
Should music at the Ordinary Form be identical to music at the Extraordinary Form?
Church musicians ought not proceed in a frenzied, panic-stricken manner.
You’re probably thinking: “Jeff, if you think Father Rossini’s narrow-mindedness was bad, get ready for a rude awakening when you see what we’re up against in 2023.”
Years ago, I struggled with being a “people pleaser.” (That means saying whatever will please the person standing in front of you.)
With a digression on Corrinne May’s upcoming presentation.
“Gentlemen: Nobody is going to follow the archaic and quack ideas on Chant you are trying to propagate.” Mr. John Sandar
My colleague, Patrick Williams, has given me permission to share with our audience a recording his choir made.
I find this melody hauntingly gorgeous.
Certainly the most beautiful capital “Q” I’ve ever seen!
Including an “added bonus” I discovered while researching Julius Bas (an Italian musicologist and organist).
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