PDF Download • Simple Pieces For Roman Catholic Church Choirs (345 Pages)
First published in 1901 by Emile Dethier, organist at the Grand Seminary in Liège, Belgium.
“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)
First published in 1901 by Emile Dethier, organist at the Grand Seminary in Liège, Belgium.
This SATB setting of “Jesu Dulcis Memoria” will help you start 2016 on the right foot!
This famous Advent hymn was not written in the 1800s—it goes back at least to the 15th century.
Some of the old Catholic hymnals were dreadful, but this one is splendid.
This special Solesmes book contains another version of the “Chants Abrégés.”
“I’m sure you’ll enjoy the beautiful poems, songs, and pictures…” —Very Rev. Norbert M. Shumaker
An extremely rare Canadian hymnal produced by Rev. Aloysius Knauff.
Published by the Catholic Choirmasters’ Guild of Buffalo, New York.
Including an update on wonderful things happening for Sacred Music in Colorado!
Here’s a chart with rubrics from the 1974 “Graduale” translated into English.
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.
All 255 pages of this famous hymn book can now be downloaded as a PDF.
Could this have something to do with how each line comes through “cleanly” in 3-part music?
A generous reader sent me copies of this extremely rare book.
Two free resources for the Pentecost Sequence, “Veni Sancte Spiritus”
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