Category Archives: Music

Music for the Feast of St. Mary, Mother of God (Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Toccata avanti la Messa della Madonna; Kyrie della Madonna (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Alleluia: Post partum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: A solis ortus cardine (plainsong, mode iii)
Communion: Exsulta filia Sion (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Thou Art the Star of Morning (Je sais, Vierge Marie)
Postlude: A solis ortus cardine: Point d’Orgue sur les Grands jeux (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769 (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Plainsong Mass for a Mean (John Sheppard, c.1512-1558)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: Dum medium silentium
Hymn at the Offertory: A solis ortus cardine (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Beata progenies (Lionel Power, d.1445)
Postlude: Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769 (Bach)

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Gaudete iusti (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
Communion: Tolle puerum (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Coventry Carol
Organ music as above

Music for the Midnight Mass of Christmas (Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Prelude: Desseins éternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Introit: Dominus dixit (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn: Adeste Fideles (arr. David Willcocks, b.1919)
Alleluia: Dominus dixit (plainsong, mode viii)
Communion: In splendoribus sanctorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Silent Night (Stille nacht)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Puer natus est
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Day: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: Hodie apparuit (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Personent hodie (Lainie Fefferman, b.1982)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Bach)

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV 603 (Bach)
Missa Octavi Toni (Orlando di Lasso)
Introit: Puer natus est (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn: Adeste Fideles (arr. David Willcocks)
Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo)
Communion: Viderunt omnes (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: In the Bleak Midwinter (Gustav Holst, 1874-1934)
Hymn at the Communion: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Bach)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass for Sundays of Advent & Lent (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Advent: Rorate caeli desuper
Motet at the Offertory: Sicut rosa inter spinas (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Antiphon at the Communion: Rorate caeli desuper (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass for Sundays of Advent & Lent (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Veni, Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Jacques Arcadelt, c.1505-1568)
Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns (Theodore Marier, 1913-2001)

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Kommst du nun, Jesu, von Himmel herunter, BWV 650 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Brevis (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete in Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Canite tuba (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Hymn at the Communion: Vox clara ecce intonat (plainsong, mode iii)
Postlude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Bach)

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass for Sundays of Advent & Lent (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Conditor alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Hark, A Herald Voice is Sounding (Merton)
Organ music as above

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass for Sundays of Advent & Lent (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Motet at the Offertory: De caelo veniet (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Motet at the Communion: Ierusalem surge (Giovanni Battista Martini, 1706-1784)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent and Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 1:00 p.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Hymns at the Offertory: Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe; Immaculate Mary (Lourdes)
Communion: Ierusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sanctissima

Advent Lessons & Carols
Please join us for a ceremony of Advent Lessons & Carols on Friday, December 14th, at 7:00 p.m. Anthems, chants, and carols of the season will be interspersed with nine readings from Holy Scripture prophesying the birth of Our Lord. Music will be sung by the St. Mary’s Choir (11:00 a.m. Mass) and the Coro Hispano de Santa María (1:00 p.m. Mass), joined by guest organist Isabelle Demers. For further information, please contact the music office: music@stmarynorwalk.net or 203-866-5546 x115.

Available here, courtesy of the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny.

Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Dignus est agnus

Mass Ordinary: Missa Octavi Toni (Orlando di Lassus, 1530-1594)

Alleluia: Potestas eius (plainsong, mode i)

Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (Ambrosian chant)

Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)

Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Rex admirabilis (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)

Postlude: Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso (from Les sept Parôles du Christ) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Prelude: Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ [BuxWV 224] (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)

Hymn at the Offertory: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St. George's Windsor)

Communion: In the sight of the angels (plainsong, mode viii)

Postlude: Te Deum in A Minor [Op. 59, No. 12] (Max Reger, 1873-1916)