Category Archives: Music

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude à l’Introït pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Communion: Gloriosa dicta (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Offertoire pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude à l’Introït pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)
Missa de Beata Maria (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Conception: Gaudens gaudebo
Motet at the Offertory: Illibata Dei Virgo nutrix (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Ave virginum decus hominum (Illibata..., secunda pars) (Josquin)
Postlude: Postlude (pièce terminale) pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII) [Children’s Scholas] Hymn at the Communion: Creator alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv) [Children’s Scholas] Sanctus: Missa D’ung aultre amer (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Agnus Dei: Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV) [Children’s Scholas] Motet at the Communion: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem, c.1410-1497)
Marian Antiphon: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode i)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Comfort, Comfort, O My People (Geneva)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
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)

The St. Mary’s Children’s Schola and the Anchor Academy Schola Cantorum combine to sing for the 9:30 Extraordinary Form Solemn High Mass this Sunday. The scholas will next sing for Mass on January 10th, the Feast of the Holy Family. For more information about the program of children’s musical formation at St. Mary’s, please contact David Hughes.

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Brevis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Ecce virgo concipiet (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Hymn at the Communion: Conditor alme siderum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Processional Hymn: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, Veni Emmanuel)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of the Year
(Thanksgiving Day)
Thursday, 26 November 2009
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on St. George’s Windsor
Processional Hymn: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St. George’s Windsor)
Hymn at the Offertory: We Gather Together (Kremser)
Hymn at the Offertory: Este Pan y Vino (Carmelo Erdozáin, b.1939)
Communion: Jerusalem, quae aedificatur (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Racimo y Trigal (Erdozáin)
Recessional: Now Thank We All Our God (Nun danket)
Postlude: Improvisation on the Te Deum

The complete music schedule for Extraordinary Form Masses at St. Mary's for Fall 2009, from the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (6 September 2009) to the Twenty-Fifth & Last Sunday after Pentecost (22 November 2009), is available here in PDF format.

Music for the Twenty-Fifth & Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Max Reger, 1873-1916)
Missa L’homme armé sexti toni (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sunday after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: A custodia matutina [Ps. 130, secunda pars] (Josquin)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacrum Convivium (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Postlude: Toccata & Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name (Coronation)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: De profundis (from Neuf Pièces) (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Mass in C (Anton Bruckner, 1824-1896)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Andreas Hammerschmidt, 1611-1675)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921)
Postlude: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain (Op. 7) (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)

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

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: O God, Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)
Communion: Amen dico vobis, quidquid (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: O Gladsome Light (Nunc dimittis)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa carminum (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Improvisation at the Offertory
Improvisation at the Communion
Postlude: Toccata in F Major (BuxWV 156) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: From All That Dwell Below the Skies (Duke Street)
Alleluia: Qui posuit (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be (O quanta qualia)
Communion: Dominus regit me (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
Monday, 2 November 2009
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Missa pro defunctis (Juan Vasquez, c.1500-c.1560)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)

A note on Vasquez’s Requiem
Juan Vásquez was a priest and composer of the Spanish Renaissance whose career as an instructor of chant and composer of polyphony took him to the cathedrals at Badajoz (his birthplace), Plasencia, Madrid, and Seville. The setting of the Requiem Mass that the Schola performs today is from a larger setting of the entire Office of the Dead, the Agenda Defunctorum, which Vásquez composed in Seville in 1556. As with the more famous settings of the Requiem by his fellow countrymen Morales and Victoria, the polyphony is sung in alternation with the proper plainchant, which is among the most beautiful of the entire Gregorian repertoire.