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<\/a>Fr. Columba completed his doctorate at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Rome in 1963, just as Roman liturgy was moving from Latin into the vernacular languages. He studied with Eugene Cardine OSB of Solesmes abbey, who is known as the father of semiological interpretation of chant which is based on natural text rhythms as witnessed in the earliest notated medieval manuscripts.<\/p>\nAt Saint Meinrad Fr. Columba served as monastery choirmaster and taught at the Seminary and School of Theology. He also taught summer courses at St. Joseph College’s in Rensselear, Indiana. He led numerous workshops on chant throughout the United States, at the Abbey of Solesmes in France, for Benedictine communities in Australia, and for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.<\/p>\n
Fr. Columba directed Saint Meinrad’s chant schola in CDS of Latin and English chants for Advent\/Christmas, Christmas, and Lent\/Easter CD.<\/p>\n
His settings of the Responsorial Psalms and Refrains for Advent\/Christmas and Lent\/Easter seasons were published by G.I.A. Publications, and his chant style setting with SAB chorus of the St. John Passion for Good Friday was published by Oregon Catholic Press. He translated and wrote two books on chant, published by Edwin Mellen Press.<\/p>\n
Fr. Columba labored mightily in the development of English chant based on the natural rhythms and stresses of the English language. In this he was convinced that he was following the best scholarship on the nature of Latin chant. The semiological interpretation of Latin chant pioneered by Cardine is sometimes known as the \u201cNew Solesmes\u201d approach. But in fact even the highly influential \u201cOld Solesmes\u201d approach, which theoretically was based on the absolute equality of the eighth-note value, was never applied consistently and rigidly at Solesmes itself. As Fr. Columba enjoyed recounting with a twinkle in his eye, he was told at Solesmes that all notes are equal\u2026 but some are more equal than others!<\/p>\n
Requiescat in pace.<\/em> May Fr. Columba rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fr. Columba Kelly OSB, Benedictine monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and well-known composer and teacher of Gregorian chant, has passed away. Fr. Columba completed his doctorate at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Rome in 1963, just as Roman liturgy was moving from Latin into the vernacular languages. He studied with Eugene Cardine OSB of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-new-ws"],"yoast_head":"\n
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