Vespers

Accompanying Gregorian Chant: “Counter-Melody”

Jeff Ostrowski · July 4, 2019

Do you hear the little counter-melody added by the organist to several verses?

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 10, 2019

Do you understand why some of the harmonies are blank?

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 8, 2019

Mr. Albert Bloomfield has done us a breathtaking favor.

Counter-Melodies • “Accompaniment of Psalm Tones”

Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2018

Go to the 1:07 marker and you will hear something worth dying for…

Sonata during the Gradual?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote seventeen Church Sonatas between 1772 and 1780. These are short pieces intended to be played between the Epistle and the Gospel (during Mass). Shortly after Mozart left Salzburg, the Archbishop mandated that an appropriate choral motet or congregational hymn be sung at that point in the liturgy, with the result that the “Epistle Sonata” fell into disuse.

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Positive Message from a Catholic Priest

Today, we received this wonderful message from a Catholic Priest: I want to say thank you for everything you have done to bring back the sense of the sacred in The liturgy. We are going through a liturgical renewal here in the parish where I was assigned as a parochial vicar. I’ve only been a priest for 1 year and 8 days! We are beginning to use your psalms for our English Masses.

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