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Views from the Choir Loft

President's Corner

Jeff Ostrowski · December 15, 2024

‘Live’ Audio Sample (Dec. 2024)

It’s ‘live’—so you can hear babies crying, the sound of the priest incensing the altar, and so forth.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 12, 2024

CCW • Appeal at Year’s End

As 2024 comes to a close, we could really use your financial support…

Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2024

Re: Sacred Music Symposium 2025

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

Jeff Ostrowski · December 8, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • 3rd Sunday of Advent

This Introit is in the first mode.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2024

For The Record …

It strikes me as quite “Adventy”—for lack of a better term.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2024

PDF • “Advent Kyrie Accompaniment”

Kyrie XVII: “In dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae.”

Jeff Ostrowski · December 6, 2024

Music List • (Immaculate Conception)

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this feast.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 3, 2024

Organ Accompaniment • “Kyrie IV”

This was inspired by Florentinus Peeters (d. 1986).

Jeff Ostrowski · December 2, 2024

Which Gospel Acclamations?

Some have asked which version…

Jeff Ostrowski · November 26, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • Immaculate Conception

This Introit is in mode iii, which some consider the most beautiful.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 25, 2024

How Sharp Are Your Eyes?

The feast of the Immaculate Conception contains a typo.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 22, 2024

“Music List” • (Christ the King Sunday)

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 19, 2024

“Entrance Chant” • Christ the King

The feast of Christ the King—a completely modern feast—was added in 1925.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 16, 2024

“Music List” • (33rd Sund. Ordinary Time)

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 15, 2024

Lectionary Errors

Why even mention such a thing? Everybody makes mistakes, right?

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President’s Corner

    “Entrance Chant” • 4th Sunday of Easter
    You can download the ENTRANCE ANTIPHON in English for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). Corresponding to the vocalist score is this free organ accompaniment. The English adaptation matches the authentic version (Misericórdia Dómini), which is in a somber yet gorgeous mode. If you’re someone who enjoys rehearsal videos, this morning I tried to sing it while simultaneously accompanying my voice on the pipe organ.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • “Repertoire for Weddings”
    Not everyone thinks about sacred music 24/7 like we do. When couples are getting married, they often request “suggestions” or “guidance” or a “template” for their musical selections. I created music list with repertoire suggestions for Catholic weddings. Please feel free to download it if you believe it might give you some ideas or inspiration.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Beginning a Men’s Schola
    I mentioned that we recently began a men’s Schola Cantorum. Last Sunday, they sang the COMMUNION ANTIPHON for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C. If you’re so inclined, feel free to listen to this live recording of them. I feel like we have a great start, and we’ll get better and better as time goes on. The musical score for that COMMUNION ANTIPHON can be downloaded (completely free of charge) from the feasts website.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

“Prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death.”

— Robert Cardinal Sarah (23-sep-2019), chosen by Pope Francis to be the Vatican’s chief liturgist

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