Re: The “Correct” Way To Sing Gregorian Chant
A choir member’s visit to find Dom Pothier in Normandy’s Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle. She finds beauty and peace.
Dom Pothier
“Gregorian Chant Isn’t a Platform for Your Personal Theories, Jeff” • (A Letter We Received)
“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski
Buckfast Abbey Weighs In
Dom John Stéphan was a Benedictine monk of Buckfast Abbey in South Devon, England.
PDF Download • “Jeff’s Mom Joins Our Fundraiser”
Earlier this year, my mother found out we desperately needed funds and were planning to run a fundraiser…
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
I would argue we must renew our good resolution and stand firm.
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (31st Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 3-NOV-2024
With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”
PDF Download • How to Sing Gregorian Chant Like Dom Pothier
Dom Lucien David gives a practical lesson in applying the method of Dom Pothier to a chant from the Kyriale.
Abbat Pothier on Gregorian Chant
“There is, then, in the Church, in the Catholic liturgy, a music that, as we have just stated, is both a word and a song, a music rich and powerful, although simple and natural, a music that is not self-seeking, which does not attend to itself but comes forth as the spontaneous utterance of religious […]
Accent and Gregorian Melody
The idea of the tonic accent in Gregorian melody runs through the entire Solesmes tradition from Gontier to Pothier to Mocquereau to the present.
Report • “Musical Shape of the Liturgy Conference”
This week I attended part of an excellent academic conference in honor of William Mahrt.
Two Ways of Singing the Easter Sequence
Two recordings of the same chant from the Sacred Music Symposium 2023.