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Jeff Ostrowski · June 4, 2020

PDF Download • 17 Organ Accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina”

Potiron, Ostrowski, Bragers, Marier, Desrocquettes, Murray, and more!

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 16, 2020

PDF Download • Organ Accompaniments (Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament)

Including O SALUTARIS (“O Saving Victim Opening Wide”) and TANTUM ERGO (“Down in Adoration Falling”) in Latin and English.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 14, 2020

PDF Download • “Victimae Paschali” Organ Accompaniment (Nine Versions)

Organ Accompaniments for “Victimae Paschali Laudes” • Some people love it; others hate it. Regardless, Mocquereau never backed down, and we must admire his tenacity!

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 8, 2020

PDF Download • Haunting “Alleluia” for Ordinary and/or Extraordinary Form

This piece probably won’t “make sense” the first time you hear it.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 24, 2020

PDF Download • “Ad Regias Agni Dapes” (Organ Accompaniment)

I composed this organ accompaniment yesterday, looking ahead towards Eastertide.

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Fr. David Friel · March 20, 2020

CDW Guidelines for Holy Week 2020

The Congregation has released a short document with pertinent guidance.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 16, 2020

PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Audi Benigne Conditor” (Vespers Hymn for Lent)

Finding the “perfect” accompaniment for hymns can be challenging. Here is my attempt.

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Veronica Brandt · March 13, 2020

Stella Caeli – a hymn against pestilence

Veronica Brandt has posted a beautiful antiphon reputed to keep the plague away; updated to correct a semitone variance in the first copy she made • The Cantuale Romano-Seraphicum from 1951 is mentioned • Free download of “Stella Caeli” along with the Litany of Our Lady+

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 3, 2020

PDF Download • Catholic Hymnal by the Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (84 Pages)

An extremely rare hymnal compiled by the Most Rev’d Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio.

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 26, 2020

PDF Download • “Hymnal of Christian Unity” (1964)

There’s something comforting about the Brébeuf hymnal translations, since they were created by Catholic priests.

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Veronica Brandt · January 28, 2020

Litany of St Joseph

The Litany of St Joseph in Latin chant with an English translation.

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Jeff Ostrowski · January 21, 2020

PDF Download • “Lucis Creator Optime” (Vespers Hymn)

I followed the “Brébeuf hymnal method,” in which every verse is written out…

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 30, 2019

PDF Accompaniment • “Jesu Redemptor Omnium”

You can compare my accompaniment to that of Achille P. Bragers.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2019

PDF • “Veni Veni Emmanuel” (2 Voices + Organ)

Download this PDF score—free to all—and sing during Advent!

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Andrea Leal · November 21, 2019

PDF Download • “Erunt Signa In Sole” (Advent)

“One of the challenges of a small choir is having enough singers to pull off any kind of polyphony. ” —Andrea Leal

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”
    When it comes to the Latin language, accent marks aren’t placed on 2-syllable words, because doing so would be excessive. In other words, if a Latin word has two (2) syllables, the first syllable always gets the accent—so there’s no need to mark it. Nevertheless, as the years went on, the ABBEY OF SOLESMES began placing accents on 2-syllable words throughout their publications. Yet, they made exceptions for certain words, and nobody can explain why. For example, they never put an accent on the word simul in Latin, as far as I can tell. Download this PDF file if you wish to see with your own eyes. It seems they omit the accent mark about 20% of the time, which eliminates the possibility of oversight.
    —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

“The chapter orders that any cathedral singer or instrumentalist who uses a paid leave of absence to try out for a post elsewhere shall automatically forfeit his post at Seville Cathedral.” [From “The Life of Father Francisco Guerrero.”]

— Sevilla Cathedral: Chapter Resolution (7 September 1565)

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