About: David Hughes

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Veni, veni Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola] Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Introit: Populus Sion (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola] Missa Conditor alme siderum (Giovanni Animuccia, c.1520-1571)
Hymn at the Offertory: Rorate caeli (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola] Motet at the Communion: Cum audisset Joannes (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Conditor alme siderum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611) [Student Schola] Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

The Schola Cantorum is joined today by the St. Mary’s Student Schola.

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Mass of the Sacred Heart (Richard Rice, b.1962)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Comfort, Comfort, O My People (Geneva)
Communion: Jerusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Hark, A Herald Voice is Sounding (Merton)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Friday, 2 December 2011, 7:30 P.M.
Year’s Mind Requiem Mass for William P. Buechler,
music director at St. Mary’s from 1950 to 1990.
(Missale Romanum of 1970)
Introit: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode vi)
Missa pro defunctis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Alleluia: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Third Mode Melody) (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Lux aeterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne)
Postlude: Fugue in E-flat Major (St. Anne) (BWV 552/2) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine:
et lux perpetua luceat ei.

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Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Veni, Veni Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i)
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Ad te levavi animam meam (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, Veni Emmanuel)
Mass of the Sacred Heart (Richard Rice, b.1962)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Thursday, 24 November 2011, 9:00 a.m. [Thanksgiving Day] Music for the Feast of St. John of the Cross
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of a Doctor of the Church: In medio
Hymn at the Offertory: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon at the Communion: Da pacem, Domine (plainsong, mode ii)
Postlude: Improvisation

The St. Mary’s Choir
Coro Hispano de Santa María

Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 7:30 p.m.
St. Gabriel Church, Stamford, Connecticut
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Fantasia in G minor (BWV 542/1) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of a Virgin Martyr: Loquebar
Hymn at the Offertory: Jesu corona Virginum (David J. Hughes, b.1980) (première)
Motet at the Communion: Cantantibus organis (Giovanni Paolo Cima, c.1570-1630)
Postlude: Fugue in G minor (BWV 542/2) (Bach)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

Music for the Twenty-Third & Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Toccata del nono tono (Claudio Merulo, 1533-1604)
Missa O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sunday after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina (De profundis, secunda pars) (Lasso)
Postlude: Toccata sesta del settimo tono (Merulo)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Diademata)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Ask of me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quod uni (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: The Royal Banners Forward Go (Sarum plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Magnificat primi toni (Jean Titelouze, c.1562-1633)
Missa Aeterna Christi munera (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost: Si iniquitates
Offertory: Recordare mei (plainsong, with verses)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina (De profundis, secunda pars) (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Postlude: Magnificat primi toni (Titelouze)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Out of the Depths, to You, O Lord, We Cry (Alberta)
Communion: Domine, quinque talenta (plainsong, mode vii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 12 November 2011, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Martin I
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Deus Genitor alme (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of a Pope & Martyr: Si diligis me
Hymn at the Communion: Iste confessor
Postlude: Improvisation

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary's.

Several members of the volunteer St. Mary's Choir came on a Saturday afternoon to make a recording of the new English Mass Ordinary that St. Mary's will employ at the 4:00 p.m. Saturday and 8:00 a.m. Sunday Masses.  (The 11:30 Sunday High Mass, at which the Choir sings, will continue to have a Latin Ordinary.)  The setting is Richard Rice's Mass of the Sacred Heart.  The new setting of the Ordinary will begin use on the First Sunday of Advent, when the new English translation of the Roman Missal goes into effect.

Kyrie: Kyrie

Sanctus: Sanctus

Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei

(The occasional clanging in the background are workers climbing scaffolding as the St. Mary's sanctuary is repainted!)

On Sunday evening, 6 November, Fr. Greg Markey, Pastor of St. Mary's, and David Hughes, Organist & Choirmaster, will give a talk on the new translation of the Roman Missal, which goes into effect on the First Sunday of Advent of this year.

The evening will begin with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the praying of the Rosary at 5:00 p.m., with the talk to follow at 5:30.  Fr. Markey will give an overview of the impetus for the new translation, and Hughes will discuss musical settings.  For more information on musical settings, see the website of the Church Music Association of America.