PDF Download • “Liber Brevior” (1954)
This special Solesmes book contains another version of the “Chants Abrégés.”
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PDF Download • “Story of Redemption” for Children (1952) • With Audio Recordings!
“I’m sure you’ll enjoy the beautiful poems, songs, and pictures…” —Very Rev. Norbert M. Shumaker
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PDF Download • “Christ The King Hymnal” (1955)
An extremely rare Canadian hymnal produced by Rev. Aloysius Knauff.
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PDF Download • Extremely Rare Hymnal (1952)
Published by the Catholic Choirmasters’ Guild of Buffalo, New York.
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PDF Download • SAB Setting of “Jesu Rex Admirabilis”
Including an update on wonderful things happening for Sacred Music in Colorado!
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The Ordinary Form’s Incredible Freedom
Here’s a chart with rubrics from the 1974 “Graduale” translated into English.
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PDF Download • Rossini’s “Canticum Novum” (1935)
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.
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PDF Download • “Mount Mary Hymnal” (1937)
All 255 pages of this famous hymn book can now be downloaded as a PDF.
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PDF Download • “Gloria In Excelsis” With 3-Voice Polyphony By Cristóbal De Morales
Could this have something to do with how each line comes through “cleanly” in 3-part music?
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PDF Download • “A Manual For Church Musicians” (1964) — 130 pages
A generous reader sent me copies of this extremely rare book.
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Veni Sancte Spiritus | Two Free Resources
Two free resources for the Pentecost Sequence, “Veni Sancte Spiritus”
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PDF Downloads • Vernacular Mass Settings Published During The 1960s
If they were set upon avoiding the word “men,” I wish ICEL would have done something like “peace on earth to *those* of good will.”
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PDF Download • “The Parish Hymnal” (1957)
“The origins of some are not known due to the long and nearly untraceable popular usage they have enjoyed.” —Gregorian Institute
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PDF Download • “Hymns Of The Roman Liturgy” (Rev. Joseph Connelly, 1955)
“These samples from Connelly make less sense in English than the Latin originals would to a North Korean.” —Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
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PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vita Sanctorum”
I’d like to produce my own version, setting all six verses to different harmonizations.
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