PDF Download • New Version of “What Child Is This” (SATB) … as of 18 December 2024
A different version was requested. I was able to complete that task earlier today.
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PDF Download • “Order of Music” (Funerals)
I have made some changes to my “musical list” for funerals.
PDF Download • “The First Nowell” in Latin — Simplified Version (2024) for Choir & Organ
If you have items you’d like to learn (such as how to make multi-track rehearsal videos) please email them to us.
PDF Download • “What Child Is This?” (SATB arr.)
In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.
“Entrance Chant” • 3rd Sunday of Advent
This Introit is in the first mode.
For The Record …
It strikes me as quite “Adventy”—for lack of a better term.
PDF • “Advent Kyrie Accompaniment”
Kyrie XVII: “In dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae.”
Music List • (Immaculate Conception)
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this feast.
PDF Download • “Musical Outline” for the Feast of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception
Rachmaninoff said: “Nine hours? That’s nothing. For a period of my life, I used to practice 17 hours a day.”
PDF Download • Pristine Scan: Father Mathias’ 1905 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (186 pages)
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
Organ Accompaniment • “Kyrie IV”
This was inspired by Florentinus Peeters (d. 1986).
“Promptly, Firmly, & Persistently Repressed.”
The book is called: “Cantica Sacra: Hymns for the children of the Catholic Church.”
Which Gospel Acclamations?
Some have asked which version…
“Entrance Chant” • Immaculate Conception
This Introit is in mode iii, which some consider the most beautiful.
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
What is he talking about? Where can I go to hear these “aesthetically superior” interpretations? Where can they be found?