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Music for Ascension Thursday, 21 May 2009

Music for Ascension Thursday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 8:00 a.m. & 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Prière du Christ montant vers son Père [Prayer of Christ ascending to His Father] (from L’Ascension) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Alleluia: Dominus in Sina (plainsong, mode viii)
Communion: Signa eos (plainsong, mode vii)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for Ascension Thursday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Missa ‘Alleluia’ (Jean Mouton, c.1459-1522)
Gregorian Mass of Ascension Day: Viri Galilaei
Motet at the Offertory: Ascendens Christus in altum (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Non vos relinquam orphanos (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Organ music as above

Music for the First Mass of Fr. Sean Kulacz, 17 May 2009

Music for the First Mass of Fr. Sean Kulacz
Mass of the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 3:00 p.m.)

Prelude: Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter (BWV 650) (Bach)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Father, We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted (Rendez à Dieu)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina cæli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628 )
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: At That First Eucharist (Unde et memores)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Postlude: Fugue in D Major (BWV 532) (Bach)

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter, 17 May 2009

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Erstanden ist der heilge Christ (BWV 628) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Orbis Factor (Paul M. Weber, b. 1977)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Jubilate Deo (prima pars) (attrib. Josquin; anon. German, XVI C.?)
Motet at the Communion: Laudate nomen ejus (Jubilate Deo, secunda pars) (attribu. Josquin)
Postlude: Fugue in D Major (BWV 532) (Bach)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hail Thee, Festival Day (Salve festa dies) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter, 10 May 2009

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (Johann Pachelbel, 1653-1706)
Mass for Four Voices (1650) (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Christus resurgens (Jean Richafort, c.1480-c.1547)
Hymn at the Communion: Salve festa dies (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Præludium in E Major (BuxWV 141) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Jubilate Deo (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter, 3 May 2009

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prière avant la communion (from Livre du Saint Sacrement) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Mass of Tournai (anonymous, XIV C.), with Kyrie Orbis factor [Children’s Scholas] Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima [Children’s Scholas] Hymn at the Offertory: Ad regias Agni dapes (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacrum Convivium (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli [Children’s Scholas] Postlude: Versets on Verbum supernum: en taille à 4, Fugue, Récit en dialogue, Récit de Basse de Trompette (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Sheep May Safely Graze (from Cantata No. 208) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147 (Bach)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude as above

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter, 26 April 2009

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BuxWV 198) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I), with Kyrie Te Christe Rex supplices
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (Estêvão de Brito, 1570-1641)
Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Third Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Now the Green Blade Riseth (Noel Nouvelet)
Communion: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, 1657-1743)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Octave Day of Easter, 19 April 2009

Music for the Octave Day of Easter (Low Sunday) (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Jacobus de Kerle, c.1532-1591)
Gregorian Mass for the Octave Day of Easter: Quasi modo
Motet at the Offertory: Post dies octo (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Christus resurgens ex mortuis (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Post dies octo (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Sons and Daughters (O filii et filiae, plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Mitte manum tuam (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today (Surgit in haec dies)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for Easter Sunday, 12 April 2009

Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Terra tremuit (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Haec dies (Byrd)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~

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Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Introit: Resurrexi (plainsong, mode iv)
Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Organ music as above

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

Music for the Solemn Easter Vigil, 11 April 2009

Music for the Great Paschal Vigil and First Mass of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 8:00 p.m.)

Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
The Exsultet (plainsong)
Canticle after the Seventh Reading: Sicut cervus (plainsong, mode viii)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode viii)
At the procession to the Baptismal Font: Litany of the Saints (plainsong)
Hymn at the Baptisms: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession after the Baptisms: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon at the Confirmations: Confirma hoc Deus (plainsong, mode viii)
At the Aspersion: Vidi aquam (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: ¡Dios reina!
Communion: Pascha nostrum (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Hymn at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~
~ Coro Hispano de Santa Maria ~

Music for Good Friday, 10 April 2009

Music for Good Friday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 3:00 p.m.)
Tract: Domine, exaudi orationem meam (plainsong, mode ii)
Gradual: Christus factus est (plainsong, mode v)
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. John (plainsong; turba settings by Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)
Antiphon: Crucem tuam (plainsong, mode iv)
The Reproaches (plainsong)
Hymn at the Adoration of the Cross: Crux fidelis (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Translation of the Sacrament: Vexilla Regis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Tenebrae factae sunt (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: O Bone Jesu (Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, c.1547-1592; often attrib. Palestrina)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sacred Head Surrounded (Passion Chorale)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~
~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

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