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“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski
We can hardly do better than to join in the same melodies sung by Catholic saints throughout history.
My husband tells me this edition (by Dom Pothier’s student) is of monumental importance. I take him at his word.
Years ago, I struggled with being a “people pleaser.” (That means saying whatever will please the person standing in front of you.)
… from the “Roman Gradual” (1912) edited by Max Springer, a famous Gregorianist of the Beuron school.
Fascinating details from never-before-seen letters recently discovered in southern France!
You look upon these thousands of manuscripts in much the same way that I view the plainsong editions of Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers.
Why declare that rhythmic signs are permitted if alteration of any kind is unacceptable? It doesn’t make any sense…
I consider this my best organ accompaniment … I hope you like it!
This is the “pure” Vatican Edition—technically the only version of the rhythm allowed by Church documents!
Ostrowski Vs. Weaver: Solesmes Rhythm, Gregorian Semiology, Dom Mocquereau, Dom Pothier, Mensuralism, and more!
Dom Mocquereau, prior to becoming a monk, was a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War.
For this coming Sunday (Passion Sunday), there’s only one “MMV” singers must observe—and I placed a little arrow above it.
For years, I couldn’t understand this business about “the eyes and the ears.” What did Pothier mean? Then it hit me. • Topics include Dom Joseph Pothier, the mora vocis, Abbot Pothier’s brother (Dom Alphonse Pothier), Dom Lucien David, Dom Paul Jausions, and a truly magnificent story about Pope Pius X and Abbot Pothier, which is essential reading+
