ProfKwasniewski

The Hymnal Industrial Complex
What I find most interesting in some of the comments here is the complete lack of openness to reevaluating the liturgical reform based on what we now know, both about its original proponents (who were not above dishonesty and riddled with faulty sch…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 26 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
For those who have been involved in this discussion: We are working on a second edition that will correct some typos and, more importantly, incorporate translations of ALL of the Latin pieces that currently do not have translations.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 26 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
I see the circular firing squad is out for duty and more effective than ever! Let anyone who has attempted to produce a hymnal on this scale be the first to cast a stone. We are making some edits to correct additional typos, but even as it stands…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski January 26 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
People can pick nits all day long, since there's a dozen ways to skin a cat. The use of a piano reduction for some of the harmonizations is a reflection of the fact that the hymnal also has organists in mind (no separate organ edition is planne…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski December 2024 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
ServiamScores: I can imagine some NOM communities, very "high church," wanting to use this, so Os Justi Press won't brand it as TLM-only. But I think no one will buy 500 copies without looking at an evaluation copy, and it's at …

Comment by ProfKwasniewski December 2024 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
ServiamScores: I can imagine some NOM communities, very "high church," wanting to use this, so Os Justi Press won't brand it as TLM-only. But I think no one will buy 500 copies without looking at an evaluation copy, and it's at …

Comment by ProfKwasniewski December 2024 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
I do understand what you are saying, but we thought about this carefully, and here are some points to think about in return. 1. This hymnal was definitely developed with TLM congregations in mind, ALTHOUGH it could be used by a conservative Novus O…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski December 2024 permalink
Archbishop Vigano’s take on the Floodgates of VII and more
I'm finishing up a book on the question of the degree and kind of rupture between the TLM and the NOM. The conclusion is that they are two rites, not two forms: the Roman rite and the modern papal rite, as Gamber said (but without sufficient ar…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 2021 permalink
Need chant score for "Salve, Pater Salvatoris"
Ben Bloomfield went ahead and programmed it into GregoBase. https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=15040

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 2021 permalink
Need chant score for "Salve, Pater Salvatoris"
Thanks for pointing to that. It's not a very good image, though. Any better version out there? I don't know how to do GABC or Gregorio etc.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 2021 permalink
Advent Polyphony
I agree with Kathy. Christoph Dalitz's setting of Rorate Caeli (SATB) (aka, the "Advent Prose") with chant verses, and his setting of the Veni, veni Emmanuel are very easy and satisfying to sing. Find stuff here: http://music.dalitio…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski November 2017 permalink
Question about Victoria (attr.)'s "Jesu dulcis memoria"
Please do!

Comment by ProfKwasniewski October 2017 permalink
Question about Victoria (attr.)'s "Jesu dulcis memoria"
Thanks, Richard, for the elegant 1-page version. Thanks, Cooze, for verses 2-5 on one page. Incardination, my choir also does the Kevin Allen version (in fact, we sang it yesterday at High Mass). It's very beautiful. But we also do the pseudo…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski October 2017 permalink
"Confitebor tibi" -- SSA Motet by Genevieve Rose Kwasniewski
Stimson, yes, that's my wife over at 1P5. She hardly ever writes, but when she gets a bee in her bonnet, the prose flows forth. All she had to do was look at a copy of MagnifiKid, and bang! Thank you for your very kind words about the gang. Ke…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski September 2017 permalink
"Confitebor tibi" -- SSA Motet by Genevieve Rose Kwasniewski
Here's the recording. (They didn't quite get the Amen, but there's always next time!)

Comment by ProfKwasniewski September 2017 permalink
Concert of contemporary sacred music at St. John Cantius, Sunday, June 25, 3:30 pm
Attended yesterday the final rehearsal before Sunday's concert at Cantius. The choir is doing a marvelous job with the music. Here's a quick video put together last night, with a performance of Tantum Ergo III: https://www.youtube.com/w…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski June 2017 permalink
Concert of contemporary sacred music at St. John Cantius, Sunday, June 25, 3:30 pm
(I wish I could join all my friends at the Colloquium this year, but the retreat for Benedictine oblates of Norcia at Marytown in Chicago conflicted directly with it!) So... in recent days, I was excited to receive recordings from a choir in Scotla…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski June 2017 permalink
Late 19th-century Schirmer Scores -- anyone interested?
Yes, all this music is for solo piano. I'd be happy to mail it to anyone for the cost of shipping. It would be one decently heavy box full. If you are seriously interested, send your mailing address to: pak (at) wyomingcatholic.org

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 2017 permalink
Late 19th-century Schirmer Scores -- anyone interested?
Lots of Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, too.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski March 2017 permalink
Wyoming Catholic College Now Offering Music Fellowships
We are working hard on getting the right status with Homeland Security to accept international students. We are close... so stay posted!

Comment by ProfKwasniewski October 2016 permalink
Looking for Benedictus in Mode VIIIG
Thank you! I had no idea this tool was available. What a fantastic link.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski June 2016 permalink
"We become what we recieve"
This is one of the most beautiful of all truths of the Catholic faith. United to Jesus through faith and love, the communicant “is transformed into him and becomes his member,” says Aquinas, “for this food is not changed into the one who eats it, b…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski May 2016 permalink
Sacred Music archives completed!
Reading the early issues is a LOT of fun. The language is so over-the-top.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski May 2016 permalink
Contemporary Sacred Polyphonic Composers?
There is Kevin Allen, of course. My choir enjoys singing his polyphony. I have some pieces out there, too: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/04/sacred-choral-works-and-other.html#.VzD9WtIrKUk

Comment by ProfKwasniewski May 2016 permalink
Are we required to sing?
Coming a bit late to this discussion: The Church says people should sing the chants that belong to them. I've written a full treatment of this here: http://www.onepeterfive.com/why-gregorian-chant-and-why-sung-by-the-people/ http://www.onepet…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski May 2016 permalink
Cantus Mariales (1903) republished in facsimile edition
Have you looked at that PDF? The fellow who put it there says: "I couldn't check out the book, so I photographed the pages." And it looks like it. I'm looking forward to someone coming along and re-typesetting the whole book. Bu…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski April 2016 permalink
Cantus Mariales (1903) republished in facsimile edition
"Rare" is a relative term, no? It's not a book you can typically find out there in the used book market.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski April 2016 permalink
A Cornucopia of SAB Motets
Ladies and gents, Someone pointed out to me that there's an error in the Palestrina "Bonus est Dominus" score -- it says "Incline" instead of "Inclina" at the verse. So here's the corrected score.

Comment by ProfKwasniewski January 2016 permalink
How do you define "fundamentalism"?
Hi, Julie, I published an article on the subject of Catholic "fundamentalism" two issues ago in The Latin Mass. Here's a PDF: https://www.academia.edu/14468171/Thoughts_on_Catholic_Fundamentalism_ God Bless, Peter

Comment by ProfKwasniewski December 2015 permalink
Unitatis Redintegratio: Your Thoughts/Interpretation?
I recommend Christopher Ferrara's chapter on ecumenism in "The Great Facade" (revised and expanded edition just published by Angelico). His contrasting of Mortalium Animos with UR, and his critique of the vagueness and lack of definit…

Comment by ProfKwasniewski October 2015 permalink

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