Category Archives: Music

Sunday, 9 June 2019, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of Pentecost
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Dum complerentur & Psalm 109 (mode iii)
Spiritus Domini & Psalm 110 (mode viii)
Repleti sunt omnes & Psalm 111 (mode viii)
Fontes et omnia & Psalm 112 (mode i)
Loquebantur & Psalm 116 (mode vii)
Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Hodie competi sunt (mode i)
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)

Music for Pentecost (Whitsunday)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Meditation on Ubi Caritas (Larry Visser, b.1962)
Hymn at the Procession: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
Messe de Sainte Hildegarde (St. Hildegard von Bingen, 1098-1179)
Gregorian Mass of Pentecost: Spiritus Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vita (Hildegard)
Motet at the Communion: O ignee Spiritus (Hildegard)
Postlude: Fanfare (Stephen Kemp, b.1947)

Music for Pentecost (Whitsunday)
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Come, Holy Ghost (Lambillotte)
Introit: Spiritus Domini (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Emitte Spiritum tuum (plainsong, mode iv)
Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Veni Sancte Spiritus (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Confirma hoc Deus (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
Communion: Factus est repente (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: If ye love me (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Laura Richling, guest organist

Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Boniface
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Boniface: Exsultabo in Jerusalem
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Sunday in Ascensiontide
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prelude in D minor (Op. 105, No. 6) (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Hymn at the Procession: Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious (Bryn Calfaria)
Missa Ascendens Christus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday in Ascensiontide: Exaudi Domine…alleluia
Motet at the Offertory: Ascendens Christus (Victoria)
Motet at the Communion: Omnes gentes (Christopher Tye, c.1505-1572)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Introit: Exaudi Domine…alleluia (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Regnavit Dominus (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Exivi a Patre (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Ascendit Deus (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Communion: Pater, cum essem (plainsong, mode iv)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Laura Intravia, guest organist

Music for Ascension Thursday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Introit: Viri Galilaei (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ascendit Deus (plainsong, mode iv)
Alleluia: Dominus in Sina (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Communion: Psallite Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for Ascension Thursday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 6:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père (from L’Ascension) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Hymn at the Procession: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Missa Fons bonitatis (Mass II)
Gregorian Mass of Ascension Day: Viri Galilaei
Motet at the Offertory: Ascendit Deus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Offertory: Psallite Domine (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: O Rex gloriae (Byrd)
Postlude: Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne (from L’Ascension) (Messiaen)

Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil of the Ascension
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Kyrie: Mass of Barcelona
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Viri Galilæi

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Saraband for the Morning of Easter (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: God of Our Fathers (National Hymn)
Missa Amar donna (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (c.1550-1603)
Motet at the Communion: Non turbetur (Giovanni Croce, c.1557-1609)
Postlude: Regina caeli (David Hughes, b. 1980)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Rejoice, Angelic Choirs (Mit Freuden zart)
Introit: Vocem jucunditatis (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Surrexit Christus (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Rise, Heart, Thy Lord Is Risen (from Five Mystical Songs) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Communion: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Let All the World (from Five Mystical Songs) (Vaughan Williams)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Wednesday of the Fourth Week after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Postlude: La Cité céleste (Lionel Rogg, b.1936)

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Cathédrales (Op. 55, No. 3) (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the Procession: Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (Gaudeamus Pariter)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Fouth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli
Postlude: Toccata et Fugue de la Résurrection (Léonce de Saint-Martin, 1886-1954)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Now the Green Blade Rises (Noël Nouvelet)
Introit: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode vi)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Most Glorious Lord of Life (William H. Harris, 1883-1973)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Christ Rising Again (Thomas Tomkins, 1572-1656)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Wednesday, 15 May 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Postlude: Improvisation
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of a Confessor not a Bishop: Os justi
Postlude: Improvisation