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Views from the Choir Loft

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 2, 2025

PDF Download • 129 Pages!

This book—now available as a PDF file—is 129 pages long!

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 1, 2025

PDF Download • “What Child Is This” (Harmonized by the Von Trapp Family Singers)

Download this book—129 pages!—free of charge as a PDF: “The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 27, 2024

“Music List” • Feast of the Holy Family

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I have prepared for the Feast of the Holy Family.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 26, 2024

Bizarre Statements From “Leaflet Missal” Founder

Imagine blaming the rise of Adolf Hitler on the Church’s immemorial use of a ‘lingua sacra’ during Mass!

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 25, 2024

PDF Download • From Cambridge: “Saint John Fisher Responsorial Psalms Collection” (253 Pages)

This 2024 collection incorporates responsorial psalms by many composers, particularly Catholic composers associated with Cambridge University.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 25, 2024

“Music List” • Midnight Mass (Christmas)

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” we used at our Christmas Midnight Mass.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 24, 2024

“Silent Night” • Easy Organ Arrangement

Choirs will ‘pick up’ this piece up with minimal rehearsal time.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 23, 2024

PDF Download • “Chart For Each Mode”

If you notice any errors, please let me know!

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Corpus Christi Watershed · December 23, 2024

Reader Question • “Extra Verses” for the Propers

Jeff Ostrowski answers a reader’s question with nine (9) statements.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 20, 2024

“Source and Summit” • What Is That?

Notice how Dom Franquesa (without explanation) stealthily annihilates sacrifice, sin, and the adoration we owe God.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 20, 2024

Rorate Caeli + ICEL + Dynamic Equivalence

There’s an old adage: “Once stung, twice shy.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 19, 2024

“Music List” (4th Sunday of Advent, Year C)

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 19, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • 4th Sunday of Advent

Like so many Advent antiphons, this one is in the first mode and comes from the prophet Isaiah.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2024

Communion (4th Sunday of Advent)

It certainly seems like most of the Advent antiphons come from the book of Isaiah…

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2024

PDF Download • New Version of “What Child Is This” (SATB) … as of 18 December 2024

A different version was requested. I was able to complete that task earlier today.

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    PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
    Dutch organist, teacher, and conductor HERMAN STRATEGIER (d. 1988) studied under Hendrik Andriessen. He composed this unison setting with organ accompaniment for the LORD’S PRAYER (“Our Father”) which a children’s choir would find both within reach and worthy of the effort. The whole thing fits neatly on a single page. Strategier eventually became organist of Saint Catherine’s Cathedral in Utrecht. He also taught at the “Dutch Institute for Catholic Church Music” (Nederlands Instituut voor Katholieke Kerkmuziek).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF • “Organ Interlude” (Manuals Only)
    Monsignor Franciszek Walczyński (d. 1937) was a Polish composer. If you play the pipe organ, I encourage you to try out this ORGAN INTERLUDE FOR MANUALS ONLY (1-page PDF) which he composed. Walczyński taught plainsong at the seminary in Tarnów (about 50 miles east of Kraków). With his brother Stanisław—also a Catholic priest—he initiated the Saint Adalbert Society for the Support of Church Music, which ran annual workshops for their diocese. In July of 1894 (more than a decade before the appearance of the Editio Vaticana) Walczyński lectured on “congregational singing and Gregorian Chant.” On top of all that, Monsignor Walczyński founded an organists’ school in Tarnów and the SAINT ADALBERT CHOIR at the cathedral.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Eucharistic Prayer No. 2 on Sundays?

    Highlighted in yellow (on this single-page PDF file) is documentation concerning whether the 2nd Eucharistic prayer may be used on Sundays.

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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

In 1951 (and again in 1952 and 1955) the Sacred Congregation of Rites gave permission to the bishops of the whole world to celebrate the “Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection” as much as possible in conformity with the ancient ceremonial: the most noticeable change was to transfer the ceremonies to the late evening of Holy Saturday. During the experimental period the text of the Missal remains unchanged, and a special “Ordo Sancti Sabbati” has been published.

— Charles Richard Anthony Cunliffe (1955)

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  • PDF Download • Roman Catholic Hymnal (1953) with Lyrics in Dutch! — 71 pages

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