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Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
If I live to be 100 years old, there’s something I’ll never understand.
This book makes it easy for singers who only know Treble Clef.
In this article, I examine the elusive provenance of what some have called “the most popular piece of plainsong.”
Ostrowski Vs. Weaver: Solesmes Rhythm, Gregorian Semiology, Dom Mocquereau, Dom Pothier, Mensuralism, and more!
Around the year 1955, “transcription” became a dirty word.
If you look at the 1961 Solesmes Gradual for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, you will see that somebody in the 1960s was trying to figure out the “melismatic moræ vocis” (a.k.a. “Vaticana white notes”) which we have spoken of so frequently on this blog.
From one of my composition teachers…
