“Must Hymns Always Rhyme?” • (With Examples)
Non-rhyming hymns are certainly a strong temptation since they’re so much easier to compose.
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Eight (8) Responsorial Psalm Options • On turning Missalettes into little “gods”
They have embraced a certain opinion about matters and will never change—not even on their deathbed.
PDF Download • All Seven (7) Movements: “Mass in Honor of Saint Noël Chabanel”
My Mass setting for the Ordinary Form involves your Congregation, your Cantrix, and your Choir.
PDF Download • “Kyrie for the Ordinary Form in Honor of Saint Thomas More”
A month of William Byrd … in Dallas, Texas!
PDF Download • “Glory To God” for Congregation & Choir (Mass of Saint Noël Chabanel)
My setting begins with the entire congregation singing—but the middle section is SATB polyphony.
(Quiz) • “How Well Do You Know Your Hymns?”
Including a tip on preventing choirs from ‘sinking’ the pitch lower and lower.
Eucharistic Hymn by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Using a favorite melody of Dr. Theodore Marier.
“Momentous Release!” • Freakishly Rare Gradual & Vesperal Published by Pothier’s Protégé (1,638 pages!)
He screamed into the telephone: “There’s no such thing as Gregorian Chant!”
PDF Download • “Alleluia Verse before Gospel” • (Mass in honor of Saint Noël Chabanel)
Instead, Saint Francis knelt down and kissed the priest’s hands…
PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Kýrie Eléison”) for the Ordinary Form
We must remember the lesson of the rock.
PDF Download • “Our Father” (SATB Version)
Today, I release another movement of the “Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting” (for use in the Ordinary Form).
PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Holy, Holy, Holy”) for the Ordinary Form
As if the canonic sections were insufficiently stupendous, the composer works in stepwise ascending lines juxtaposed with lines in augmentation.
“OCP” (Oregon Catholic Press) Forbids Organ Improvisation! • Screenshot Provided
The hubris on the part of OCP is breathtaking.
“Did One Man Single-Handedly Sabotage the Gregorian Restoration?” • (Part 1 of 2)
Including a scanned copy of a rare “Graduale” (Pustet, 1911) released a few minutes ago—for the first time in history!
PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Lamb of God”) for the Ordinary Form
Today, we release the congregational “Lamb of God” with SATB polyphonic extension.