Category Archives: Music

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.

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.