Announcement of Easter & the Moveable Feasts • El Anuncio de la Pascua y Fiestas Movibles • 2025
Epiphany Proclamation scores and practice videos in English and Spanish
Archives for December 2024
“Entrance Chant” • 3rd Sunday of Advent
This Introit is in the first mode.
Epiphany Proclamation 2025
Each year, without fail, someone asks me to typeset the Epiphany Proclamation, an announcement of moveable feasts chanted each year on the feast of the Epiphany. As a result, you may now find an archive of 23 such proclamations in PDF ready to print HERE.
For The Record …
It strikes me as quite “Adventy”—for lack of a better term.
PDF • “Advent Kyrie Accompaniment”
Kyrie XVII: “In dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae.”
Music List • (Immaculate Conception)
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this feast.
PDF Download • “Musical Outline” for the Feast of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception
Rachmaninoff said: “Nine hours? That’s nothing. For a period of my life, I used to practice 17 hours a day.”
“A Peculiar Discrepancy” • Immac. Concep. (8 Dec.)
Who can explain this?
PDF Download • Pristine Scan: Father Mathias’ 1905 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (186 pages)
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
Organ Accompaniment • “Kyrie IV”
This was inspired by Florentinus Peeters (d. 1986).
“Promptly, Firmly, & Persistently Repressed.”
The book is called: “Cantica Sacra: Hymns for the children of the Catholic Church.”
Which Gospel Acclamations?
Some have asked which version…