PDF Download • “Hymn for the Feast of All Saints” (Released for the First Time in History!)
“Each day Father Knox would write for his students a Latin poem describing events of the previous day.” —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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.”

“Each day Father Knox would write for his students a Latin poem describing events of the previous day.” —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

“Occasionally, the English texts for some of the hymns are almost barbaric artistically…” —𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 (1960)

“Raising the pitch for the final verse.” (Tag: 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳)
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My thesis on how Dom Mocquereau relates to other theories of musical rhythm is now available for download.

A congregational booklet requested by Mr. Seth Bauer.

Non-rhyming hymns are certainly a strong temptation since they’re so much easier to compose.

They have embraced a certain opinion about matters and will never change—not even on their deathbed.

My Mass setting for the Ordinary Form involves your Congregation, your Cantrix, and your Choir.

A month of William Byrd … in Dallas, Texas!
My setting begins with the entire congregation singing—but the middle section is SATB polyphony.
Including a tip on preventing choirs from ‘sinking’ the pitch lower and lower.
He screamed into the telephone: “There’s no such thing as Gregorian Chant!”

Instead, Saint Francis knelt down and kissed the priest’s hands…

We must remember the lesson of the rock.
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