Category Archives: Music

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.

Music for the Feast of All Saints
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Gaudeamus (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV) [Children’s Scholas] Gloria: Mass for Four Voices (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Gregorian Mass of All Saints’ Day: Gaudeamus
Motet at the Offertory: Justorum animae (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Feast of All Saints
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: For All the Saints (Sine nomine)
Alleluia: Venite ad me (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: If There Be That Skills to Reckon (Lewes) (desc. Philip A. Prince)
Communion: Beati mundo corde (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Father, in Whom Thy Saints Are One (Jesu dulcis memoria)
Organ music as above

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. These young choristers have been rehearsing for several months, learning the basics of singing and reading Gregorian chant, the foundation of all sacred music. The scholae will next sing for Mass on December 6th, the Second Sunday of Advent. For more information about the program of children’s musical formation at St. Mary’s, please contact David Hughes.

Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude from Suite médiévale (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Missa Philippina (Manuel Cardoso, 1566-1650)
Gregorian Mass of Christ the King: Dignus est Agnus
Hymn at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong)
Hymn at the Communion: Vexilla regis (Juan Francés de Iribarren, 1699-1767)
Postlude: Acclamations Carolingiennes [Christus vincit] (Langlais)

Music for the Thirtieth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Chant de paix (Langlais)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: O God, Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)
Alleluia: Lauda Jerusalem (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lead, Kindly Light (Alberta) (William Henry Harris, 1883-1973)
Communion: Laetabimur (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: I Sat Down (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Chant héroïque (Langlais)

At 7:00 p.m. on Friday, 23 October, join Organist & Choirmaster David Hughes for an informal demonstration of the pipe organ: what it is, its construction, how it works, and how our instrument at St. Mary’s fits into a 2400-year tradition. The program will be interspersed with several short works by Bach, Tournemire, and Messiaen to demonstrate the range of the organ.

A flier is available here.

Music for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: An Wasserflüssen Babylon (Johann Pachelbel, 1653-1706)
Missa Mi-Mi (Johannes Ockeghem, c.1410-1497)
Gregorian Mass of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost: Omnia quae fecisti
Motet at the Offertory: Super flumina Babylonis (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Beati immaculati (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Litanies (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)

Music for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (Lauda anima)
Alleluia: Lauda anima mea (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Communion: Domine Dominus noster (plainsong, mode ii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for Votive Mass of Our Lady
and procession in honor of Christopher Columbus
Monday, 12 October 2009
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa ‘El Ojo’ (Francisco de Peñalosa, c.1470-1528)
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady: Salve Sancta Parens
Antiphon at the Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode ii) [Children’s Schola] Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Hymn at the Communion: Salve Regina (Martin de Rivaflecha, 1470-1528)
Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v) [Children’s Schola]

Music for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Messa a tre voci in La minore (Antonio Lotti, 1667-1740)
Gregorian Mass of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Salus populi ego sum
Motet at the Offertory: Justus es Domine (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Confitemini Domino (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Short Prelude & Fugue in C Major (BWV 553) (Bach)

Music for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: Word of God, Come Down on Earth (Liebster Jesu)
Alleluia: Qui timent Dominum (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: O God of Earth and Altar (King’s Lynn) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Communion: Aufer a me (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the External Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Magnificat primi toni (BuxWV 204) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa de Beata Maria (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Most Holy Rosary: Gaudeamus
Motet at the Offertory: Dixit Maria (Hans Leo Hassler, 1548-1612)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Postlude: Rosa mystica (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)

Music for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: In exitu Israel (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ubi caritas (plainsong, mode vi)
Communion: In salutari tuo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Richard de Castre’s Prayer to Jesus (R.R. Terry, 1865-1938)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Canzone “La spiritata” (Giovanni Gabrieli, c.1554-1612)
Missa sine nomine (Ludovico da Viadana, 1564-1627)
Gregorian Mass of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Justus es Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Exaudi Domine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Dixit Dominus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Fuga IX tono (Gabrieli)

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Paratum cor meum (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Offertory: Verily, Verily I Say Unto You (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Qui vult venire (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Non nobis, Domine (trad.)
Organ music as above