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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1930 Nashdom Abbey Graduale (Fragment)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1924 “Liber Usualis” in Modern Notation (Solesmes)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1932 “Le nombre musical Grégorien” (Mocquereau)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1905 Solesmes Kyriale (643)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1930 Text Book of Solesmes Gregorian Chant

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1923 Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment (Giulio Bas)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1963 Chant According to the Manuscripts (Murray)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1856 Gevaert Method for Accompanying Plainchant

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1939 Little Grammar of Gregorian Chant (Gogniat)

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1818 Antiphonale (Bourguignon)

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1909 Mechlin Graduale (Fragment)

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1923 Gastoué Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1964 Rayburn Gregorian Chant Rhythm

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1856 Niedermeyer Gregorian Accomp. Treatise

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Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

1945 The Rhythm of Plainsong (Dom Gajard)

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    PDF • “Singers’ Booklet” (22 Pages)

    The formatting of this booklet is ‘messy’—but it’s only ever seen by the singers (not the congregation).

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Twenty-Two (22) English Translations
    We gathered every English translation of “Creátor Alme Síderum” ever made by Catholic poets, priests, bishops, cardinals, and saints (22 in all). Click this link to see them displayed, placed directly alongside the original Latin. Some are strikingly beautiful (e.g. “Great Maker of the glitt’ring stars”) and together they trace the hymn back to the ancient “Cónditor Alme Síderum,” which POPE URBAN VIII reworked in 1632AD.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Stained Glass Window • Father Brébeuf
    Saint John de Brébeuf was one of the North American Martyrs. The photograph of a gorgeous stained glass window depicting Father Brébeuf was sent to us by Courtney Roberson. Father Brébeuf and his companions were canonized by Pope Pius XI on 29 June 1930. We are told this window is found in the Cathedral of Peoria, Illinois.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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    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

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“Catholics in America have been the heirs of a sentimental and subjective hymn tradition that, for some reason or other, has taken a deep and fast hold on the fancy of the average person.”

— Fr. Francis Brunner (1953)

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