PDF Booklet • Christmas Midnight Mass (36 pages)
It looks so simple when placed in a booklet like that…
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PDF Download • “Easy Organ Interludes” (229 pages)
Giovanni Battista Fasolo published an enormous book of organ interludes without pedals • Pierre Gouin typed them up, bringing you this clear window into renaissance liturgical music for free! • Enjoy this treasure trove of organ music from almost 400 years ago! Plus a few highlights from along the way+
PDF Download • Mass Hymns by Fr. Seed, SJ (1906)
How utterly strange to see such items!
PDF Download • “Pope Pius XII Hymnal” (1959)
Very few people have a copy of this incredibly rare Catholic hymnal.
“Source Material” • The Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal
We assembled a staggering number of Catholic hymnals and selected only the very best material from each.
PDF Download • “Sanctus” (SATB) by JS Bach!
Wow … I bet you’ve never heard this piece before!
PDF Download • SATB Christmas Carol by Peter Lejeune • “Jam Désinant Suspíria”
I recorded all the voices, to demonstrate how it sounds…
PDF Download • “Leeds Catholic Hymnal” (232 pages)
A hymnal out of print for fifty years has been scanned by Mr. Colin E. Jackson!
PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers”
…including a failed descant from 1983.
PDF Download • A “Bright” Eucharistic Hymn
Could there be a nicer hymn than this? It is fresh and glorious.
PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vexilla Regis” (Hymn) by Fr. Adrian Fortescue
When I saw this page, my opinion of Fortescue went down—but then I remembered…
PDF Download • Rare German Hymnal (879 pages)
Most German hymnals we’ve come across contain words only—but this one has harmonies!
PDF Download • “Agnus Dei” … for Lent
…including rehearsal videos for each individual voice!
PDF Download • Dom Pothier Biography (1947)
“Dom Pothier himself acted as an illustrator, decorating his work with vignettes, illuminated capitals, tailpieces, even full-page illustrations representing the mysteries of the Annunciation and Christmas.”
PDF Download • Easy Hymn with Melody in Tenor
The Brébeuf hymnal contains carefully chosen and flexible melodies; do you see how the following tune (“Old Hundredth”) can be used in the Tenor voice?