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Anthony Ruff, OSB
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Associate Professor of Theology, 1998- National Catholic Youth Choir Founder and Chaplain, 2000- B.A., Saint John’s University, 1986; M.Div., Saint John's University, 1993; S.T.M., Yale Divinity School, 1994; Th.D., University of Graz, Austria, 1998 320-363-3233 |
Recent courses taught:
- Psalmody and Hymnody (Spring 2013)
- Monastic Liturgy (Spring 2013)
- Modern Liturgical Movements (Fall 2012)
- Reading Latin II (Spring 2012)
- Reading Latin I (Fall 2011)
- Advance Choral Conducting (Summer 2011)
- Composing Music for Liturgy (Fall 2010)
- Gregorian Chant I (Summer 2011, Summer 2010, Summer 2009)
- Rites of Initiation (Spring 2010)
- Gregorian Chant Schola (Fall & Spring semesters)
- Liturgical Year (Fall 2009)
- Eucharistic Liturgy and Theology (Spring 2009)
- Gregorian Chant II (Summer 2011, Summer 2008)
- Pastoral Liturgy I (Spring 2008)
Canticum novum: Gregorian Chant for Today’s Choirs, GIA Publications (forthcoming)
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Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2008). |
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Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations (Mundelein/Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2007). 2nd Place Award in “Liturgy,” Catholic Press Association, 2008. |
Recent reviews:
Review of Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium by Rita Ferrone (Paulist Press, 2007), Pastoral Liturgy 40:2, March/April 2009, 18.
Review of Exsultemus: Rejoicing with God in the Hymns of the Roman Breviary translated by Martin D. O’Keefe, S.J. (St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2002), Rite (March-April, 2006) 28.
Book chapters:
“Greek, Latin, and Pre-Reformation Hymnody,” in hymnal companion to Lutheran Service Book (forthcoming)
"The Snowbird Statement on Liturgical Music," in The Song of the Assembly: Pastoral Music in Practice. Essays in Honor of Father Virgil C. Funk (Portland: Oregon Catholic Press, 2007).
Reference book entries:
"Union School of Sacred Music," "Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872 – 1958)," "Tauferneuerung/Taufgedächtnis" ( = "Renewal of Baptismal Promises"), "Cäcilianfest," "Halleluja," "Herwegen, Ildefons," "Kirchenmusik: IV. Westliche Kirchen, 1. Mittelalter," and "Kirchenmusik: VI. Rechtlich, 1. Katholische Kirche," "Nunc dimittis," "Offertorium: I. Liturgisch, II. Musikalisch," "Sanktus: I. Liturgisch," "Stossgebet," "Boys’ Choirs," in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th ed.
"Vehe, Michael," "Witzel, Georg," in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd ed.
Recent articles:
“Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship,” GIA Quarterly 20.3, Spring 2009, 12-13, 38.
“The Liturgical Changes We Face: A Parable,” Pastoral Music 33:1, October 2008, 34-40.
“Beyond Medici: The Struggle for Progress in Chant,” Sacred Music 135.2, Summer 2008 , 26-28.
Translation (from German), “One Hundred Years of the Graduale Romanum” by Johann Berchmans Göschl, Sacred Music 135.2, Summer 2008, 8-25.
“‘Sing to the Lord’: 17 Things to Look For,” Assembly 34:4, July 2008, 61-64.
"The Music 'Specially Suited to the Roman Liturgy': On the One Hand…," Pastoral Music 32.5 (June-July 2008), 15-18.
"A Basic Chant Bibliography," Pastoral Music 32.5 (June-July 2008), 27-29, 32.
"Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship," Liturgical Ministry 17, Spring 2008, 77-84.
"Silence in Lent," Rite, Spring 2008.
"Chant Resources," GIA Quarterly 19:1, Fall 2007, 16-19, 44-45.
Recent presentations:
Panel Respondent to Faith Healer, a play by Brian Freel, "Reflections by Theologians and Physicians," Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN, November 17, 2009.
Sing to the Lord: “Why This Document and Where Did it Come From?,” “What The Document Says,” “Making it Work in the Parish,” St. John’s Conference on Music, Liturgy, and Theology, July 21-22, 2009.
“Sing to the Lord,” Monastic Liturgy Forum and Benedictine Musicians, Collegeville, July 17, 2009.
Daily Morning Prayer, planned and led music, Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, Northfield, MN, July 13-16.
“Making Chant Work in the Parish Community," July 7, 2009, National Association of Pastoral Musicians, Chicago.
NPM Hovda Lecture, July 7, 2009, National Association of Pastoral Musicians, Chicago.
Chant Intensive, July 6, 2009, National Association of Pastoral Musicians, Chicago.
Watou, Belgium, May 21-24, 2009, director of Saint John’s Gregorian Chant Schola, invited participant in International Gregorian Chant Congress.
“Sing to the Lord,” Saint John’s Theology Day: Collegeville and Alexandria, MN; Naples, Florida; Spring 2009.
“Sing to the Lord,” and chant coaching, Diocese of Salt Lake City and Cathedral of the Madeleine, March 3-8, 2009.
Conferences on liturgy and music, Holy Cross Abbey, Virginia, February 20-21, 2009.
“Sing to the Lord,” two presentations, Diocese of Kalamazoo, February 12, 2009
“Sing to the Lord,” Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, Pittsburgh, January 8, 2009.
“Sing to the Lord,” North American Academy of Liturgy, Music group, January 2-5, 2009.
“The Restoration of Gregorian Chant,” “The Modern Chant Books,” and “Semiology and the Performance of Chant,” University of Lawrence, KS, November 7-8, 2008
“Sing to the Lord: What Does This New Bishops’ Document Say?” and “Giving Life To Chant in Latin and English,” Rockville Center, November 4, 2008
Gregorian Chant workshop, Duluth, October 2-3, 2008
“What’s in the New Music Document” and “How to Select Music for the Liturgy,” St. Cloud Diocese Ministry Day, September 29, 2008.
Newark, New Jersey, July 1, 2008, National Association of Pastoral Musicians, "The Liturgical Changes We Face."
Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, February 23, 2008, "Style and Substance in Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship" and workshop "Leading Congregational Singing from the Keyboard."
Saint John’s Abbey, January 20, 2008, Sunday at the Abbey series, "How the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Writes a Music Document."
Cambridge University, England, November 21-22, 2007, Music Faculty and Music Colloquium, Gregorian Chant.
Notable activities:
Translator, Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie (International Fellowship for Research in Hymnology)
Translator, International Abbots’ Congress, Rome, September 2008.
Participant, American Church Music History consultation, November 14-15, 2008.
Chair of Ad Hoc Chant Subcommittee, National Association of Pastoral Musicians
Member of National Advisory Board, National Association of Pastoral Musicians
Member of Editorial Advisory Council, The Liturgical Press
Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, Spiritual Director/ Chaplain (2005-)
Composer of Responsorial Psalm sung each day at Mass, Saint John’s Abbey