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Views from the Choir Loft

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Jeff Ostrowski · September 13, 2023

Eucharistic Hymn by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Using a favorite melody of Dr. Theodore Marier.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 30, 2023

“Momentous Release!” • Freakishly Rare Gradual & Vesperal Published by Pothier’s Protégé (1,638 pages!)

He screamed into the telephone: “There’s no such thing as Gregorian Chant!”

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 29, 2023

PDF Download • “Alleluia Verse before Gospel” • (Mass in honor of Saint Noël Chabanel)

Instead, Saint Francis knelt down and kissed the priest’s hands…

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 23, 2023

PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Kýrie Eléison”) for the Ordinary Form

We must remember the lesson of the rock.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 22, 2023

PDF Download • “Our Father” (SATB Version)

Today, I release another movement of the “Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting” (for use in the Ordinary Form).

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 18, 2023

PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Holy, Holy, Holy”) for the Ordinary Form

As if the canonic sections were insufficiently stupendous, the composer works in stepwise ascending lines juxtaposed with lines in augmentation.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 17, 2023

“OCP” (Oregon Catholic Press) Forbids Organ Improvisation! • Screenshot Provided

The hubris on the part of OCP is breathtaking.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 14, 2023

“Did One Man Single-Handedly Sabotage the Gregorian Restoration?” • (Part 1 of 2)

Including a scanned copy of a rare “Graduale” (Pustet, 1911) released a few minutes ago—for the first time in history!

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 11, 2023

PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Lamb of God”) for the Ordinary Form

Today, we release the congregational “Lamb of God” with SATB polyphonic extension.

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Dr. Charles Weaver · August 9, 2023

PDF Download • Palestrina’s Most Famous Mass Simplified

“I find Anerio’s work here to be excellent, and I hope you do as well.” —Dr. Charles Weaver

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Matthew Frederes · August 8, 2023

“Graduale Romanum” • Rare Edition from 1661 A. D.

Today we release an exceedingly rare 1661 edition of the Graduale Romanum, in high resolution and in full color!

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 7, 2023

PDF Download • Professionally-Scanned “Missale Romanum” (1957) with American Feasts

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn!

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 25, 2023

William F. Buckley and Solesmes Abbey

Confirmed: Full archives of “Triumph” (a 1960s Roman Catholic magazine) are available online!

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 25, 2023

Splendid Repertoire for (Reduced) Summer Choirs!

Here’s a technique you must try with your choir.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 19, 2023

Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Jeff’s Fourth Response to Patrick” (19 July 2023)

Twenty years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct a week-long interview with Dom Cardine’s former boss.

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President’s Corner

    Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

    There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

    The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

    Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reminder” — Month of May (2026)

    Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

    I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

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“It would be difficult to find a failure of imagination greater than that of Carl Czerny.”

— Robert Schumann

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