Choir Members Can’t Get Enough of This Piece
An English translation of “Veni Creator Spiritus.”
Abbot Joseph Pothier of Solesmes
Must We “Love” All Gregorian Chant?
Where “Parce Dómine” (the famous song for Lent) came from.
PDF Score • “Mass Setting I Wrote For Corrinne”
I demonstrate how the “Kyrie Eleison” can be adapted for use in the Extraordinary Form.
My Response to Dr. Weaver’s Latest Article
Is it fair to forever bind Dom Guéranger to what he wrote about “barbarous archaisms” in 1855?
PDF • Draft Booklet “Couture Chant” (255 Pages)
This is very much a “work in progress”…
Can a Lens Make a Difference?
My husband tells me this edition (by Dom Pothier’s student) is of monumental importance. I take him at his word.
“Momentous Release!” • Freakishly Rare Gradual & Vesperal Published by Pothier’s Protégé (1,638 pages!)
He screamed into the telephone: “There’s no such thing as Gregorian Chant!”
PDF Download • 1909 “Modern Notation” Gradual (Extremely Rare) — 712 Pages
The truth is stranger than fiction.
PDF Download • Mocquereau on Trochee Trouble
This can seem like a dry topic, but it actually often deals with practical issues faced by every choirmaster who wants to promote plainchant.
“New Gregorian Chant Project” • Part 2
Using this coming Sunday (12th Sunday after Pentecost) as an example.
PDF Download • Professionally-Scanned “Graduale Romanum” (Schwann, 1908) • 1,129 pages!
This is the “pure” Vatican Edition—technically the only version of the rhythm allowed by Church documents!
“Chant Rhythm Wars” • Dueling Lectures!
Ostrowski Vs. Weaver: Solesmes Rhythm, Gregorian Semiology, Dom Mocquereau, Dom Pothier, Mensuralism, and more!
PDF Download • Colossally Stupendous “Missal for the Faithful” — 1,142 pages
This is a large file (172 MB), but trust me! You will love it.
“Slanty Wampus” Doesn’t Count
From one of my composition teachers…
Extremely Rare! • Pages from the “Directorium Chori” (Solesmes Abbey, 1864)
The entire edition was destroyed in a fire (circa 1866) except four rare copies.