Teaching Gregorian Chant to Boys with Changed Voices
The boys encountered the same learning curves the adult men had previously, but their facility in solfege speed up the learning process.
Articles
What does Cicero have to do with the Breviary?
A proposal for “mutual enrichment”
Photos • Two Recent Solemn Masses in Hong Kong
This wasn’t my first time serving as a subdeacon, but it was a trembling experience.
Tone Quality and Your Singers
Ultimately it doesn’t matter if your choir resonates well and sings beautiful vowels but can’t communicate via the music…
The Turns at Benediction
To the Right or to the Left?
“ Dissonance? ” • Gregorian Accompaniment
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Ratzinger’s 1987 Letter to a Former Catechism Student
The Pope Emeritus presents church music as something central to life.
I Was Wrong to Dread the “Pre-1955” Holy Week
Five (5) differences between the ancient rites of Holy Week (“Pre-1955”) and the Pius XII version.
“Crotalus” • How Does It Sound?
Holy Thursday pew version from a pocket recorder.
Summer Chant Courses—Dunwoodie
Two course offerings from the St. Cecilia Academy for Pastoral Musicians
FSSP Palm Sunday (2018) • “Pre-1955 Rubrics”
Rome gave permission this year to a few parishes to use the “Pre-1955” Holy Week.
Ratchets instead of Bells for your Electric Angelus
Remember to change any electronic bells this Friday and Saturday! Links to some good ratchet sounds included.
PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vexilla Regis” (Hymn) by Fr. Adrian Fortescue
When I saw this page, my opinion of Fortescue went down—but then I remembered…
Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (FSSP, 2018)
“…Who didst establish the salvation of mankind on the tree of the Cross; that whence death came, thence also life might arise again, and that he, who overcame by the tree, by the tree also might be overcome…” —Preface
Liturgy outside Liturgy
A New Study of the Liturgical Theology of Alexander Schmemann