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SE08 EP15 - The Solar Horarium & Monastic Fast According to the Rule of St. Benedict, Plus Praying the Chant & Making Beer - with Fr. Augustine Wilmeth, OSB, Prior at the Benedictine Abbey in Norcia

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SE08 EP14 - Conflict Resolution, Work-Life Balance, and Avoiding Burnout As a Church Musician - with Angela Rosson

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SE08 EP13 - A Masterclass in the Magisterial Compositions and Style of Palestrina - with Thomas Neal

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SE08 EP12 - Caring for Temples of the Holy Spirit: The Busy Church Musician's Guide to Nutrition, Health, and the Immune System - with Dr. Lizbeth Alter

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SE08 EP11 - Learning & Living Gregorian Chant as a Monk - with Fr. Mark Bachmann, OSB, Choirmaster of Clear Creek Abbey

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SE08 EP10 - All About Sarum: Ceremonial, Chant, Sources, and Processions from Medieval England - with Dr. Christopher Hodkinson

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SE08 EP09 – Is Beauty a Transcendental, Why Beauty Matters, and Can We Be Wrong About Beauty? Philosophical Questions Every Church Musician Should Consider with Dr. Margaret Hughes

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SE08 EP08 - Chant Accompaniment, Organ Building, and Fundraising for Organ Projects - with Dr. Christopher Berry

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SE08 EP07 - Developing Great Vocal Technique for Singing Chant - with Dr. Rosemary Heredos

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SE08 EP06 - What Did American Sacred Music Sound Like in the 19th & Early 20th Centuries? A Snapshot from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York - with Salvatore Basile

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SE08 EP05 - Lenten Reflection for Church Musicians - with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone

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SE08 EP04 - From Chant to Counterpoint: How to Improvise Polyphony - with Dr. Charles Weaver

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SE08 EP03 - The Art of Organ Improvisation: Insights from Martin Baker

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SE08 EP02 - From Puebla Cathedral to Today's Spanish-Speaking Pews: The Legacy of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla - with Fernando Gil

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SE08 EP01 - Building a Beautiful Homeschool Curriculum for Art and Music - with Elizabeth Lemme

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SE07 EP12 - A Feast for Ear and Eye: The Alamire Manuscripts - with Dr. Emily Thelen

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SE07 EP11 - A Church Musician's Guide to the History of the Pronunciation of Latin - with Dr. John Pepino

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SE07 EP10 - Should Postludes Be Loud? And Other Organ Repertoire Questions for the Catholic Parish Organist - with Prof. Christopher Berry

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SE07 EP09 - Meditating on the Mysteries of the Lives of Mary and Jesus: Music of Heinrich Bieber and Franz Joseph Haydn - with Fiona Hughes

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SE07 EP08 - A Catholic Curriculum: A Model Music Program in a Classical High School - with Dr. Alexis Kutarna

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SE07 EP07 - Is Formality Inauthentic or Insincere? Understanding Excellence in Ars Celebrandi in American Catholic Parishes - with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone

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SE07 EP06 - The Liturgical Compositions and Eucharistic Poetry of St. Thomas Aquinas - with Fr. Innocent Smith, OP

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SE07 EP05 - Short on Singers or Dough? Enter Concertato Motets. - with Dr. Janet Hunt

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SE07 EP04 - When and Why Did Ut Change to Do? And Other Historical Questions about Solfège - with Dr. Charles Weaver

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SE07 EP03 - Singing the Credo: Historical Origins and Development - with Dr. Harrison Russin

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SE07 EP02 - How Did the Parts of the Mass Ordinary Get Arranged into Groups in the Kyriale? with Dr. Andrew Kirkman

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SE07 EP01 - Building a Great School & Parish Sacred Music Program in a Rural Community - with Kelsey LaCour

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SE06 EP17 - The "Viennese" Orchestral Mass and the Work of Johann Michael Haydn - with Dr. Erick Arenas

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SE06 EP16 - Music and the Eucharistic Revival - with Bishop Earl Fernandes

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SE06 EP15 - Medieval Irish Chant: Sources and Liturgical Practice - with Dr. Ann Buckley

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SE06 EP14 - Liberal Arts and Fine Arts: Understanding the Trivium, Quadrivium, and the Place of Music in Catholic Education - with Mark Langley

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SE06 EP13 - What is Sacred Music, & Why Does It Matter? with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone

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SE06 EP12 - The Final Flowering of Late Renaissance Venetian Choral Music - with Charles Cole and the London Oratory Schola

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SE06 EP11 - Sacred Music and the "Sunday Experience" - with Bishop Michael Barber, SJ

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SE06 EP10 - Integrating Scholarship and Praxis in the Life of the Catholic Singer - with Dr Charles Weaver

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SE06 EP09 - Gregorian Chant and the Art of Memory: Chant Books (Tonaries) and Florilegia - with Dr. Anna Maria Busse Berger

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SE06 EP08 - The Sacramentality of Sound: Bells and Their Place in Catholic Life - with Fr. Christopher Gray and Carl Zimmerman

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SE06 EP07 - Your Questions, Answered: Liturgical Q&A about Sacred Music - with Christopher Carstens

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SE06 EP06 - 3 Warmups, 3 Motets, and 3 Polyphonic Masses Every Choir Should Learn - Choral Institute Preview - with Prof. Christopher Berry

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SE06 EP05 - Tenebrae and the Lamentations of Jeremiah - with James Monti

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SE06 EP04 - Fundraising for an Amazing Sacred Music Program - with Dr. Lucas Tappan

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SE06 EP03 - Marian Chant: The Music of Lady Masses - with Dr. William Mahrt

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SE06 EP02 - It's All Greek to Me (Until It's Latin): The Evolution of Language in the Roman Rite - with Fr. Nicholas Schneider

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SE06 EP01 - Priests and Musicians Working Together: Salaries, Contracts, and All the Practical Stuff - with Michael Olbash

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SE05 EP16 - Charles Tournemire as Liturgical Organist: Improviser & Composer of L'Orgue Mystique with Kevin Faulkner

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SE05 EP15 - All about Rogation Days - with Dr. Michael Foley

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SE05 EP14 - Sanctifying Time: The Hours of the Divine Office through the Day and through the Liturgical Year - with Dr. William Mahrt

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SE05 EP13 - Becoming a Sacrifice of Praise: Advice for Choral Directors for Pursuing Musical Excellence & Developing a Polyphonic Repertoire in Parish Choirs - with Christopher Berry

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SE05 Bonus 1 - The Role of Beauty and the Church's Sacred Music in the Spiritual Life, Intro to the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music - with Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka

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SE05 EP12 - The Lives and Musical Education of Child Oblates in Medieval Monasteries - with Dr. Susan Boynton

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SE05 EP11 - Lessons from Mary Berry on Persevering & Loving Gregorian Chant in the Midst of Trials - with Christopher Hodkinson

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SE05 EP10 - Teaching Gregorian Chant to Young People: The Canticle Apostolate - with Mary Ann Carr Wilson

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SE05 EP09 - Organ Improvisation, Hymn Tune Introits, and Cathedral Choir Schools - with Dr. Christoph Tietze

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SE05 EP08 - Mocquereau's "Classical Solesmes" School of Singing Chant: Understanding the Arguments about the Rhythm of Gregorian Chant – with Prof. Charles Weaver

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SE05 EP07 - The Impact of the Council of Trent on Composers: The Case of Juan de Esquivel - with Dr. Michael O'Connor

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SE05 EP06 - Do College Composition Departments Prepare Composers to Write Sacred Music? The Story of a Composer's Evolution - with Dr. Frank La Rocca

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A Bishop's Guardianship of Beauty and the Liturgy: Reflections on the Liturgical Life of the Ordinariate - with Bishop Steven J. Lopes

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A Musical Offering: Reflections on Improvisation, Inspiration, and Harmony – with Naji Hakim

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Understanding and Preventing Church Musician Burnout – with Dr. Kensley Behel

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The Story of Musical Notation – with Dr. Thomas Forrest Kelly

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Improving Catholic School Masses and Catholic Identity in Education – with Fr. Christopher Smith

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Music of the California Missions: Understanding the Construction of a Vibrant Musical Culture - with Dr. Craig H. Russell

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Paleography, the Semiological Approach to Singing Chant, and the Work of Dom Eugène Cardine – with Dr. Edward Schaefer

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Olivier Messiaen as Musical Theologian - with Dr. Robert Sholl

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The Psalms as the Basis for Christian Sung Prayer: Exploring the Four Senses of Scripture in the Divine Office - with Dr. William Mahrt

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Capturing the Classical Polyphonic Sound: Historical Performance Practice for Parish Choirs - with Charles Weaver

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New Jobs and Early-Career Church Musicians: Starting Off on the Right Foot - with Sam Rowe

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The Beuron School of Art: The Invention of a Modern Canon for Liturgical Art - with Emily Sottile

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Building Your Parish Choir's Repertoire: Great Motets and Helpful Tips - with Dr. Aaron James

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Secular Music at Mass: Understanding the Use of Worldly Tunes in Renaissance Polyphony - with Dr. Andrew Kirkman

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Introducing People to Sacred Music: How to Plan a Great Event - with Janet Gorbitz

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What Does "Pastoral" Mean? Leadership and Service in Sacred Music with Archbishop Salvatore J Cordileone

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SE03 EP14 – Historical Notation, and the Link between Meaning and Notation in Sacred Music – with Charles Weaver

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SE03 EP13 – Meeting Your Spouse in Choir, Weddings, and Babies - with Theresa and Ben Volpe, Sam and Lauren Rowe, and Drs. Jacek and Jennifer Nowiccy

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SE03 EP12 – Saint Juan de Ribera, Devotion to the Eucharist, and the Importance of Prayer in Liturgical and Musical Renewal – with James Monti

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SE03 EP11 – The Origins of Gregorian Chant: The Roman Schola Cantorum and Old Roman Chant – with Dr. Joseph Dyer

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SE03 EP10 – Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Sounds of Russian Orthodoxy – with Dr. Richard Fountain

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SE03 EP09 - Liturgical Changes in Tudor England: Thomas Tallis' Stable Position – with Dr. Kerry McCarthy

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SE03 EP08 – Pius X School of Liturgical Music: A Snapshot of Sacred Music Education in America – with Dr. Francis Brancaleone

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SE03 EP07 - Modality in Gregorian Chant - with Dr. William Mahrt

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SE03 EP06 – Dominican Chant – with Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.

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SE03 EP05 – Swimming the Thames and the Tiber – with Dr. Jay Hershberger

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SE03 EP04 – Music of the Ordinariate – with Fr. James Bradley

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SE03 EP03 – Motets – with Dr. Aaron James

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SE03 EP02 - Growing up Catholic in China and Musical Life in the Church in China – with His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Zen

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SE03 EP01 – Sanctity, Beauty, and Universality in Modern Sacred Music – with Sir James MacMillan

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SE02 EP18 – 7000+ Hours of Gregorian Chant – Behind the Scenes at the Neumz Project – with John Anderson & Alberto Díaz-Blanco

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SE02 EP19 – Where Do I Start? A Pastoral Plan for Changing a Parish Music Program - with Dr. Mary Jane Ballou

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SE02 EP17 – Sacred Music as a Vital Part of Parish Life and Fellowship – Roundtable with Mary Ann Carr Wilson, Charles Cole, and Fr. Robert Pasley

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Bonus Episode 5 – Introduction to the Organ for Pianists – with Dr. Crista Miller

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Bonus Episode 4 – 40+ (Mostly Free) Resources for Making Excellent Sacred Music in a Time of Restrictions

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BONUS Episode 3 – The Top 5 Misconceptions about Music at Mass (Part I: nos. 1 and 2) – with Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka

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SE02 EP16 – "Lord, Teach Us to Pray:" The Spiritual Fruits of Obedience in Matters Liturgical – with Dom Alcuin Reid, OSB

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Bonus Episode 2 – Teaching Gregorian Chant to Children: A Look at the Ward Method

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SE02 EP15 – A Catholic Portrait of Abbé Franz Liszt – with Dr. Jay Hershberger

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SE02 EP14 – From Ragas to Responsories: A Hindu Becomes a Catholic Priest – with Fr. Gaurav Shroff

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Bonus Episode 1 – Conducting and Group Vocal Tips for the Parish Music Director – with Dr. Timothy McDonnell

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SE02 EP13 – Pope Pius X's Motu Proprio on Sacred Music – with Dr. Susan Treacy

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SE02 EP12 – The Hows and Whys of Illuminated Chant Manuscripts – with Elizabeth Lemme

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SE02 EP11 – William Byrd, English Catholic Composer and Recusant – with Dr. Kerry McCarthy