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Views from the Choir Loft

President's Corner

Jeff Ostrowski · December 4, 2025

PDF • “Music List” (Immaculate Concep.)

Readers have expressed interest in examining the music list I prepared for 8 December (“In Conceptione Immaculata Beatae Mariae Virginis”).

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 1, 2025

“Reminder” — Month of December (2025)

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 27, 2025

Dr. Mahrt explains the ‘Spoken’ Propers

This image is found on the first page of a 1974 Sacramentary.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 25, 2025

PDF • “Music List” (1st Sunday of Advent)

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 17, 2025

“Music List” • Christ the King Sunday

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 15, 2025

“Simplified” Keyboard Accompaniment (PDF)

A simplified keyboard accompaniment for the “O Jesus Christ, Remember” hymn.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2025

‘Bogey’ of the Half-Educated: Paraphrase

This is something Monsignor Ronald Knox had to explain time and again…

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2025

Father Cuthbert Lattey • “The Hebrew MSS”

“the ancient Christian versions (and some other ancient sources) seem to have been based upon a better Hebrew text…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 8, 2025

“Music List” • 9 Nov. (Dedic. Lateran)

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 8, 2025

PDF Download • Offertory (9 Nov.)

“Mother and Head of all churches of the City and of the World” says the inscription over the entrance.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 7, 2025

Job Opening • $65,000 per year +

Exciting job opening in Michigan for a Roman Catholic choir director!

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 6, 2025

“Reminder” — Month of November (2025)

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 3, 2025

“Offertory” at Catholic Funerals

This setting cleverly inserts themes from the absolution of the body.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 1, 2025

“In Paradisum” • Gregorian Chant

While the coffin is being carried to the grave, the following anthem is sung.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 31, 2025

“Music List” • All Souls (2 November)

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —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

“It would be a grave error to imagine that the principle orientation of the sacrificial action is towards the community. If the priest celebrates «VERSUS POPULUM», which is legitimate and often advisable, his spiritual attitude ought always to be «VERSUS DEUM PER JESUM CHRISTUM», as representative of the entire Church.”

— Official Vatican Statement (25 September 2000)

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