PDF Download • Spanish Cathedral Music (1961)
“On Holy Saturday in 1545, while the pope and several cardinals were present, two of the oldest choir members flew at each other during the blessing of the new oils…”
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PDF Download • “New Westminster Hymnal” (1939)
Can Watershed survive? (Part 4)
PDF Download • “Woodward Hymnal” (1913) … Outrageously Rare!
Can Watershed survive? (Part 2)
PDF Download • “Latin in the New Liturgy” (1976)
“The use of Latin in celebrating the new Mass Rite will be encouraged as it has been in the old; Latin expresses the nature of the Church as international and timeless.”
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.
PDF Download • New Composition By Kevin Allen
This SATB setting of “Jesu Dulcis Memoria” will help you start 2016 on the right foot!
“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.
PDF Download • Hymnal by Fr. John Selner (1954)
Some of the old Catholic hymnals were dreadful, but this one is splendid.
PDF Download • “Liber Brevior” (1954)
This special Solesmes book contains another version of the “Chants Abrégés.”
PDF Download • “Story of Redemption” for Children (1952) • With Audio Recordings!
“I’m sure you’ll enjoy the beautiful poems, songs, and pictures…” —Very Rev. Norbert M. Shumaker
PDF Download • “Christ The King Hymnal” (1955)
An extremely rare Canadian hymnal produced by Rev. Aloysius Knauff.
PDF Download • Extremely Rare Hymnal (1952)
Published by the Catholic Choirmasters’ Guild of Buffalo, New York.
PDF Download • SAB Setting of “Jesu Rex Admirabilis”
Including an update on wonderful things happening for Sacred Music in Colorado!
The Ordinary Form’s Incredible Freedom
Here’s a chart with rubrics from the 1974 “Graduale” translated into English.
PDF Download • Rossini’s “Canticum Novum” (1935)
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.