The Recovering Choir Director

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

January 31, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 1 comment.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite)
St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI

Prelude: Improvisation on Introit: Laetetur cor and ST. ANNE
Hymn: “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” (ST. ANNE), vv. 1–3
Introit: Laetetur cor, Mode II Gregorian chant (antiphon only)
Sign of the Cross: chanted, English
Greeting: Form [...]

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Tags: Gregorian Chant; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); St. Ignatius (Mount Horeb); St. Mary's (Pine Bluff); Year C.

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

January 24, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite)
St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI

Prelude: Improvisation on Introit: Adorate Deum and ONSLOW SQUARE
Hymn (Psalm 98): “Sing a New Song to the Lord” (ONSLOW SQUARE), vv. 1–4
Introit: Omnis terra, Mode VII Gregorian chant (antiphon only)
Sign of the Cross: chanted, [...]

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Tags: Gregorian Chant; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); St. Ignatius (Mount Horeb); St. Mary's (Pine Bluff); Year C.

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

January 17, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite)
St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI

Prelude: Improvisation on Introit: Omnis terra and SALZBURG
Hymn: “Songs of Thankfulness and Praise” (SALZBURG), vv. 1–2
Introit: Omnis terra, Mode IV Gregorian chant (antiphon only)
Sign of the Cross: chanted, English
Greeting: Form A, English
Penitential Rite: Form [...]

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Tags: Gregorian Chant; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); St. Ignatius (Mount Horeb); St. Mary's (Pine Bluff); Year C.

Ask the RCD: Salve Regina as wedding processional

May 3, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

A reader—presumably a bride-to-be—asks:
Do you think a Gregorian Chant version of Salve Regina would be appropriate as a wedding processional?
The Salve Regina traditionally has been used to end liturgies (Compline/Night Prayer in Post-Pentecost/Ordinary Time after Pentecost), devotions (Rosary, etc.), and sometimes as an optional recessional for Mass.[1]  So, based on established liturgical and devotional precedent, [...]

Filed under: Ask the Recovering Choir Director.
Tags: Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Weddings.

Responsorial Psalms for Sundays (Year B) until Christ the King

May 1, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

The following Responsorial Psalm settings are now available in the Original Compositions section of this website:

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary [...]

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Tags: Bruce E. Ford; Chabanel Psalms; Divine Office; Jeff Ostrowski; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Responsorial Psalms; Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Vernacular Plainsong; Year B.

Five more Responsorial Psalms to Gregorian chant melodies

April 27, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

Five additional Responsorial Psalm settings are now available in the Original Compositions section of this website:

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Like the other settings provided, these are in Gregorian chant [...]

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Tags: Bruce E. Ford; Chabanel Psalms; Divine Office; Jeff Ostrowski; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Responsorial Psalms; Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Vernacular Plainsong; Year B.

Gloria XI, in segmented MP3 files

April 23, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

Following up on the Credo I segmented MP3s, I have made available phrase-by-phrase segments of Gloria XI, the melody that the Roman Church proposes for Sundays in Ordinary Time (Ordinary Form) and Post-Pentecost (Extraordinary Form).
When parishes employ a Gregorian chant setting of the Gloria, almost invariably it is the Gloria VIII “de Angelis”.  While they [...]

Filed under: Spirituality.
Tags: Adoremus Society; Andrew Brownell; Graduale Romanum; Gregorian Chant; Gregorian Missal; Liber Usualis; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Parish Book of Chant; Roman Gradual; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form).

More Responsorial Psalms to Gregorian chant melodies

April 7, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

More Responsorial Psalm settings are available in the Original Compositions section of this website:

Most Holy Trinity, Year B
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year B
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Year B
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Like the other settings provided, these [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized.
Tags: Bruce E. Ford; Chabanel Psalms; Divine Office; Jeff Ostrowski; Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum); Responsorial Psalms; Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Vernacular Plainsong; Year B.