• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Corpus Christi Watershed

A monthly subscription fee of $4.95 gives access to the entire website. Thank you for supporting our efforts!

  • Member Log In
    • My Account
    • “Receipts + Invoices” (Subscribers)
  • Our Team
    • Our Editorial Policy
    • Who We Are
    • How To Contact Us
    • Jeff’s Mom Joins Fundraiser
    • “A New Chapter” • Subscriptions!
    • “Participation” (12 pages)
    • “Choirmaster’s Decalogue” (10 points)
  • Pew Resources
    • Brébeuf Catholic Hymnal
    • Jogues Illuminated Missal
    • Repository • “Spanish Music”
    • Feasts Website
    • KYRIALE • Saint Antoine Daniel
    • Campion Missal, 3rd Edition
  • MUSICAL WEBSITES
    • Secrets of the Conscientious Choirmaster
    • Emporium Kevin Allen
    • Miscellaneous
      • Sainte Marie Bulletin Articles
      • “Let the Choir Have a Voice” (Essay)
      • Catechism of Gregorian Rhythm
      • Sacred Music Symposium 2023
      • The Eight Gregorian Modes
      • Gradual by Pothier’s Protégé
      • Father Enemond Massé Manuscripts
      • Seven (7) Considerations
    • René Goupil Gregorian Chant
    • Saint Jean de Lalande Library
    • Noël Chabanel Psalms
    • Nova Organi Harmonia (2,279 pages)
    • Roman Missal, 3rd Edition
    • Lalemant Polyphonic
  • Donate
  • Cart
Views from the Choir Loft

President's Corner

Jeff Ostrowski · September 12, 2024

Music List • (24th Sund. Ordinary Time)

Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I have prepared for this coming Sunday.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Corpus Christi Watershed · September 11, 2024

Desperate Appeal • (11-Sep-2024)

On 11 September 2024, the president of CCWatershed released…

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · September 7, 2024

Music List • (23rd Sund. Ordinary Time)

This coming Sunday (8 September 2024) is the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. Some have expressed interest in seeing my “ORDER OF MUSIC.” If such a thing be appealing to you, it can be downloaded as a PDF file.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · September 6, 2024

Communion • (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)

This coming Sunday (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time) we’re singing the Communion antiphon in English as adapted by the SISTERS OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD (O’Fallon, Missouri). Their enormous body of work is usually referred to as The O’Fallon Propers. Click here to download this Communion as a PDF file. (For the record, I couldn’t […]

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · September 5, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (8-Sep-2024)

Coming up fast is Sunday, 8 September 2024, which is the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Here’s the PDF file for the ENTRANCE ANTIPHON—in Gregorian notation on five lines—which we’ll be singing. You can also download this organ accompaniment which corresponds to that file. Plainchant scholars will be interested in the ancient version it mimics […]

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 31, 2024

Musical Lineup • (22nd Sund. Ordinary Time)

Jeff’s musical lineup for Sunday, 1 September 2024.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 30, 2024

PDF • “Lamb of God” Harmonization

Harmonized—and carefully notated—in Spanish, English, and Latin.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 29, 2024

“3-Voice Arrangement” (SAB) • Psalm 26

Fabulous rehearsal videos have been created for you.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 28, 2024

Meet Kevin Allen In Person!

If you ever wanted to spend a day with Jeff Ostrowski and Kevin Allen, next Tuesday (3-Sept-2024) is your chance! Learn more by clicking here.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 28, 2024

MONTH OF SEPTEMBER — “Reminder”

Each day I speak to folks who have followed our blog for years but (somehow) don’t realize we publish a free newsletter. Please subscribe to it! Simply scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address. We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoyong ads. Therefore, […]

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 20, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (1-Sep-2024)

Coming up fast is Sunday, 1 September 2024, which is the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Here is the PDF file of the ENTRANCE ANTIPHON—in Gregorian notation on five lines—which we’ll be singing. You can also download this organ accompaniment which corresponds to that file. If you’re somebopdy who enjoys rehearsal videos, you can listen […]

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 19, 2024

“Our Father” • (Arr. for 3 Voices)

This tune has many names such as “Psalm 112” and “Old Hundred Twelfth.”

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 17, 2024

Music List • (20th Sund. Ordinary Time)

This coming Sunday is 18 August 2024.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 15, 2024

Music List • “Assumption” (15 August)

Several readers expressed interest in seeing my music list for the Assumption (15 August). You will notice the COMMUNION HYMN is a special version of “Ave Maris Stella” in English and Spanish. Our Mass on the Assumption was Tri-Lingual: Latin, English, and Spanish. Here’s the organ accompaniment (five pages) for that hymn. Furthermore, those who […]

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 14, 2024

“Missa de Angelis” • Gloria

Feel free to download this PDF file containing GLORIA VIII (“Mass of the Angels”) harmonized by the great Belgian organist: Flor Peeters.

To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 19
  • Page 20
  • Page 21
  • Page 22
  • Page 23
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 45
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Corpus Christi Watershed

President’s Corner

    PDF • “Singers’ Booklet” (22 Pages)

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

    To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.
    —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

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.

    To access this post, you must purchase Monthly Subscription or Yearly Subscription.
    —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

“The banality and vulgarity of the [ICEL] translations which have ousted the sonorous Latin and little Greek are of a supermarket quality which is quite unacceptable.”

— Sir Alec Guinness (1985)

Recent Posts

  • “Ad Orientem” • Six (6) Post-Conciliar Quotes
  • PDF • “Singers’ Booklet” (22 Pages)
  • Twenty-Two (22) English Translations
  • “Creátor Alme Síderum” • Twenty-Two (22) English Translations by Catholic Priests and Archbishops!
  • “Gregorian Chant Rhythm” • Recorded Conversation with Dr. Horst Buchholz Re: Rhythmic Markings

Subscribe

Subscribe

* indicates required

Footer

CONTACT • Corpus Christi Watershed

1 (818) 279-5852
chabanel.psalms@gmail.com
Corpus Christi Watershed
8118 Etienne Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78414

Copyright © 2026 Corpus Christi Watershed · Isaac Jogues on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Corpus Christi Watershed is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization recognized by the state of Texas on 19 October 2006. Our statement of purpose notes that we “employ the creative media in service of theology, the Church, and Christian culture for the enrichment and enjoyment of the public.”