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Jeff Ostrowski • Article Archive

A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).

Jeff Ostrowski · December 24, 2015

Musical Resources • Christmas Midnight Mass (Extraordinary Form)

We won’t be singing “Frosty The Snowman” for Offertory!

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2015

Sacred Vs. Secular • What Do You Think?

My performance leaves much to be desired, but you get the idea.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 16, 2015

“Veni Veni Emmanuel” • Original Setting (Two Voices)

This famous Advent hymn was not written in the 1800s—it goes back at least to the 15th century.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 14, 2015

Why Don’t Serious Catholics Address This?

If you want to test the USCCB policy, try this experiment.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2015

Rehearsal Videos • Victoria’s “Ave Maria” (SATB)

Including six reasons why Tomás Luis de Victoria may be the true composer of this piece.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2015

Rehearsal Videos • “O Magnum Mysterium” (Victoria)

With a masterpiece like this, we must be careful not to rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2015

Propers for Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 December)

Providing music for the Traditional Latin Mass is not nearly as hard as some believe.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 5, 2015

Musical Resources • Second Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

“Gather ye together His Saints to Him; who have set His covenant before sacrifices…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 2, 2015

Introit For The Immaculate Conception (8 December)

“Gaudens Gaudebo” is not a short Introit.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 1, 2015

The Most Important Thing A Choirmaster Can Do

Sometimes it takes decades to appreciate the genius of this or that Gregorian chant.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 30, 2015

Changing The Good Friday Prayer For The Jews

“Christianity is the perfect development of the Jewish religion…” —Fr. Leslie Rumble

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 29, 2015

Musical Resources • First Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

“Arise in thy strength, we beseech thee, O Lord, and come…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 27, 2015

Clarity Regarding The Pius XII “Turkey” Indult

Whether this rumor is accurate makes no difference, because the rules for Friday abstinence were changed in the 1960s.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 24, 2015

Our Church Music Movement: How Are We Doing?

I never dreamed that so many people love this stuff…and are willing to fight for it!

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 19, 2015

PDF Download • Hymnal by Fr. John Selner (1954)

Some of the old Catholic hymnals were dreadful, but this one is splendid.

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    Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC which I created for this coming Sunday, the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The INTROIT for this Sunday explains why this Sunday is called “Apple Sunday.” As we approach the end of the liturgical year, most of the INTROITS seem to be in Mode III or Mode IV, which are ‘haunting’ tones.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

On March 24th, 1945, Pope Pius XII, by the Motu Proprio “In cotidianis precibus” gave permission to all who recite the divine office to use a new version of the Psalter made by six Jesuit professors of the Biblical Institute. This, contrary to some expectations, was neither a revision of the existing Vulgate nor of Saint Jerome’s ‘Psalterium juxta Hebraeos’, but a new translation altogether, based on the Massoretic text, the versions, and (in a few instances) on conjectural emendations.

— Dr. T. E. Bird

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