“Entrance Chant” for this Coming Sunday • Jeff Attempts to Accompany Himself on the Organ
Singing Gregorian Chant lifts one’s spirits. Agree or disagree?
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
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).
Singing Gregorian Chant lifts one’s spirits. Agree or disagree?
The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from the Ember Saturday of Lent.
There’s been considerable online discussion about this. Our readers have a right to know what’s at issue.
“This is not the choir!” … exclaims Mike Aquilina.
Although it beggars belief, in his entire life Father Josef A. Jungmann never celebrated a sung Mass—not one!
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”
The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from Wednesday in the 2nd week of Lent.
The great masters sometimes even wrote parallel sevenths!
The idea developed (somehow) that having the priest wait 15 minutes for an item he needs is “good and reverent” liturgy. But that’s false.
It’s distressing to observe (in certain in quarters) an immature understanding of modality.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
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