“O Escam Viatorum” • (Holy Thursday)
I was way off the mark!
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PDF Download • Simplified Keyboard Accompaniments for Lenten Hymns
There’s nothing wrong with simplicity—so long as the music itself is inspired, memorable, dignified, and singable.
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Music List • (4th Sunday of Lent)
Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.
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PDF Download • Communion (4th Snd. Lent)
There’s something irresistible about this tone.
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Most “Congregational” Hymn • (In My Experience)
The key ingredient for a good parish music program.
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Good Friday Flowers
Surely there are more than 1,000.
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PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for Holy Thursday (Plainsong in English)
Only a foolish and stubborn person would claim that “hyena” is basically the same thing as “a holy person.”
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“Dies Irae” • A Monstrous Translation
There’s a place for dynamic equivalency, but this is repugnant.
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PDF Download • “Holy, Holy, Holy”
This is what we use for vigil Masses on Saturday (a.k.a. “anticipated” Masses).
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Music List • (3rd Sunday of Lent)
Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.
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“Samaritánæ” (3rd Sunday of Lent)
The “Ordo Cantus Missae” introduces not only…
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Grotesque Pairing • “Passion Chorale”
Were you shocked to see the Pius XII Hymnal (1959) assigning vernacular hymns to different parts of the Mass?
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PDF Download • “Ubi Caritas” (SATB)
A wonderful option for smaller choirs.
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PDF • “Cantus Mariales” (192 pages)
This gorgeous PDF scan is being offered completely free of charge
PDF Download • Fourteen (14) Versions of the Splendid Hymn: “Salve Mater Misericordiae”
My favorite Gregorian hymn for Lent!
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