My Recent Conversation • “Chant Rhythm”
This past week, I appeared on the Nikhil Hogan show to talk about Gregorian rhythm and the Vatican edition.
Gregorian Rhythm Wars
PDF Download • Extremely Rare! —Solesmes “Graduale” acc. to the Official Rhythm (1,049 pages)
Doesn’t it stand to reason that we should sing from this edition in the manner its creators intended?
PDF Download • Pristine Scan: Father Mathias’ 1905 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (186 pages)
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
What is he talking about? Where can I go to hear these “aesthetically superior” interpretations? Where can they be found?
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for this Coming Sunday (Christ the King) — 34th in Ordinary Time
Including three separate points on Dom Combe’s shameful and defamatory statement.
Choir Members Can’t Get Enough of This Piece
An English translation of “Veni Creator Spiritus.”
J. R. R. Tolkien and Guéranger : Antiquarianism is Protestantism! Was Pius X an Antiquarianist?
The Church is a living body, that has grown from a seed to a full grown tree. It can never return to the seed.
Jeff Writes A Song About Dr. Weaver And Himself
This article—a “mini-dissertation” on syllabic plainsong—writes songs using the names of various CCW authors.
“Response to Dr. Weaver” • 2 April 2024
Catholic musicians must avoid being viewed as “esoteric freaks” who can’t agree on anything and spend their entire lives fighting about things nobody cares about.
Response to Jeff: Rhythmic Signs Again
I propose that we consider Dom Pothier’s method without making an unnecessary appeal to authority.
Jeff Ostrowski Attempts to Sing the Easter Introit
I opted for the Church’s official rhythm.
“Response to Dr. Weaver” • 11 March 2024
“It would be a barbarous archaism to adopt this ancient custom in our time.” —Dom Guéranger
Must We “Love” All Gregorian Chant?
Where “Parce Dómine” (the famous song for Lent) came from.
What is the Place of the Horizontal Episema in Dom Mocquereau’s Theory?
It really is a minor part of Mocquereau’s theoretical enterprise. That doesn’t mean it’s completely pointless, though.
Abbat Bourigaud Challenges Dr. Charles Weaver!
Father De Santi opined that “Solesmes had rid themselves of Pothier by giving him an abbey”—to which Pope Pius X responded that it amounted to “a small compensation.”