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New Sacred Music Magazine — “Altare Dei”

Fr. David Friel · October 27, 2016

Announcing the first issue of a brand new publication focusing on liturgy and sacred music.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Altare Dei Magazine, Choralife Publisher, Colin Mawby, Father Enrico Zoffoli, Monsignor Valentino Miserachs Grau, Reform of the Reform, Renewal of the Renewal, Sheet Music Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Give Yourself a Boost in the New Choral Year

Dr. Lucas Tappan · August 31, 2016

The grandmother of 5 choristers informed me that one of her granddaughters told her rehearsal wasn’t long enough—it seemed to be over just as it was starting!

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Worst Typo Of All Time?

Jeff Ostrowski · August 10, 2016

This one got by the editor’s eye!

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Being Careful With Hymns

Jeff Ostrowski · August 8, 2016

Each individual “ear” must decide what is acceptable.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Free Recordings • British Boys’ Choir

Andrew Leung · July 28, 2016

Free recordings of famous British boys’ choirs on YouTube!

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

The Vatican Has Already Responded To Cardinal Nichols Regarding “Ad Orientem”

Corpus Christi Watershed · July 11, 2016

“No preference is expressed in the liturgical legislation for either position.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Ad Orientem, GIRM Paragraph 299 Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Cardinal Sarah “Reform of the Reform” (5 July 2016) • Full Address in French & English

Corpus Christi Watershed · July 7, 2016

Breathtaking statements from the Vatican’s chief liturgist who—while on retreat—goes 72 hours without food or water.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Ad Orientem, Participatio Actuosa, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Sacra Liturgia Last Updated: July 24, 2023

Theology and Music

Dr. Lucas Tappan · June 28, 2016

I hope and pray the Church continues to raise up true artists who will bring the Gospel to the world through the greatest of all the Church’s arts—Music.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

My Recent Discovery

Andrew Leung · June 9, 2016

I recently discovered some amazing Choral Works by Philip Stopford.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Video • Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum

Dr. Lucas Tappan · May 17, 2016

Our program continues to expand, and we look forward to working with more than 60 students next year!

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Lucas Tappan Schola Last Updated: January 1, 2020

We Need Assistance! Please Help Watershed Survive!

Jeff Ostrowski · April 5, 2016

My 5-part series requesting donations seems to have failed miserably—with a few notable exceptions.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

The Chapel Royal Solemn Vespers is Available on BBC

Andrew Leung · April 1, 2016

A recording of the Solemn Vespers at the Chapel Royal is now available on BBC’s website.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Rehearsal Videos • My Favorite Lenten Hymn

Jeff Ostrowski · March 3, 2016

Can Watershed survive? (Part 3)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Herzliebster Jesu Hymn Last Updated: January 1, 2020

PDF Download • “Woodward Hymnal” (1913) … Outrageously Rare!

Jeff Ostrowski · March 2, 2016

Can Watershed survive? (Part 2)

Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Last Updated: January 1, 2020

| Part 1 of 3 | • “Kyrie Eleison” (SATB) within the reach of any choir!

Jeff Ostrowski · March 1, 2016

Can Watershed survive? (Part 1)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Francisco Guerrero Composer, Missa Beata Mater, Piecemeal Polyphony Last Updated: February 26, 2022

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    “Music List” • 15th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (13 July 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. As always, the Responsorial Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, and propers for this Sunday are also provided at the the feasts website.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    This coming Sunday—13 July 2025—is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). All the chants have been conveniently assembled and posted at the feasts website. The OFFERTORY, Ad Te Levávi, is particularly beautiful.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music Director Job • $80,000 per year
    Our readers will be interested in this job offering for Music Director at Saint Adalbert’s Basilica, located 40 minutes from where I live. My pastor was recently elevated to this basilica. He is offering $80,000 per year, plus benefits. I’m told Saint Adalbert’s Basilica is utterly gorgeous and contains one of America’s most magnificent pipe organs. It would be fantastic to have a colleague nearby!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Pope Pius XII Hymnal?
    Have you ever heard of the Pope Pius XII Hymnal? It’s a real book, published in the United States in 1959. Here’s a sample page so you can verify with your own eyes it existed.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    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

Random Quote

They were not ashamed to lay their hands on Sedulius, on Prudentius, on St. Ambrose himself. Only in one or two cases does some sense of shame seem to have stopped their nefarious work. They left “Ave maris stella,” “Jam lucis orto sidere,” and St. Thomas Aquinas’s hymns alone (they would have made pretty work of “Sacris solemniis”). In 1629 their mangled remnants were published.

— Rev’d Adrian Knottesford Fortescue (25 March 1916)

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