“Entrance Chant” for Sunday (3-NOV-2024)
The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from Wednesday in the 2nd week of Lent.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
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).
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.
Including “O Come All Ye Faithful” (with Latin text) in a delightful arrangement for two voices.
The version by Father Victoria is also quite beautiful, although the ranges for some voices are challenging.
“I had never directed for the TLM before this semester, and your resources have been beneficial…”
When the congregation isn’t moved, such a musician will reply: “Well, that’s just because they’re uneducated philistines who don’t know anything.”
This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Forcing the entire congregation to assume various postures has a rather sordid history.
I’ve been patiently waiting to release this since the summer!
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