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Views from the Choir Loft

President's Corner

Jeff Ostrowski · November 12, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • Sunday (17 Nov. 2024)

This Introit is in the sixth mode (known as the “peaceful” mode).

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2024

“Quotation” • Pope Pius X on Plainsong

“That would be to me the finest triumph sacred music could have…” —Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto (1897)

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2024

Genitive Case

In Latin, the genitive case is sometimes unclear.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 9, 2024

Music List • (32nd Sund. Ordinary Time)

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 5, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • Sunday (10 Nov. 2024)

The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from the Ember Saturday of Lent.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 4, 2024

“Free” Is Better!

A masterpiece for Soprano, Alto, and Bass.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 31, 2024

Music List • (31st Sund. Ordinary Time)

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 29, 2024

“Entrance Chant” for Sunday (3-NOV-2024)

The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from Wednesday in the 2nd week of Lent.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 28, 2024

The Truth About Chant Modality

It’s distressing to observe (in certain in quarters) an immature understanding of modality.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 28, 2024

Bishop of Jefferson City Forbids Hymns

Bishop McKnight earned a doctorate in Sacred Theology.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 26, 2024

Music List • (30th Sund. Ordinary Time)

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 24, 2024

New Treasures Daily?

What lofty language!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

“Reader Feedback” • 22 October 2024

“I had never directed for the TLM before this semester, and your resources have been beneficial…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

“Entrance Chant” for Sunday (27-Oct-2024)

This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2024

Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)

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President’s Corner

    “Be Joyful Mary” • Organ Interlude

    Peter Piel (1835–1904), was a Roman Catholic composer named “Royal Music Director” under Wilhelm I, King of Prussia.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
    Dutch organist, teacher, and conductor HERMAN STRATEGIER (d. 1988) studied under Hendrik Andriessen. He composed this unison setting with organ accompaniment for the LORD’S PRAYER (“Our Father”) which a children’s choir would find both within reach and worthy of the effort. The whole thing fits neatly on a single page. Strategier eventually became organist of Saint Catherine’s Cathedral in Utrecht. He also taught at the “Dutch Institute for Catholic Church Music” (Nederlands Instituut voor Katholieke Kerkmuziek).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF • “Organ Interlude” (Manuals Only)
    Monsignor Franciszek Walczyński (d. 1937) was a Polish composer. If you play the pipe organ, I encourage you to try out this ORGAN INTERLUDE FOR MANUALS ONLY (1-page PDF) which he composed. Walczyński taught plainsong at the seminary in Tarnów (about 50 miles east of Kraków). With his brother Stanisław—also a Catholic priest—he initiated the Saint Adalbert Society for the Support of Church Music, which ran annual workshops for their diocese. In July of 1894 (more than a decade before the appearance of the Editio Vaticana) Walczyński lectured on “congregational singing and Gregorian Chant.” On top of all that, Monsignor Walczyński founded an organists’ school in Tarnów and the SAINT ADALBERT CHOIR at the cathedral.
    —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

This was first breach in the walls of a fortress, centuries old, stoutly built, strong and robust, but no longer capable of responding to the spiritual needs of the age. [N.B. the “fortress” is a liturgy which nourished countless great saints.]

— Annibale Bugnini (19 March 1966)

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