Category Archives: Music

Music for Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent, 2 December 2018

Sunday, 2 December 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
In illa die & Psalm 109 (mode viii)
Jucundare filia Sion & Psalm 110 (mode viii)
Ecce Dominus veniet & Psalm 111 (mode v)
Omnes sitientes & Psalm 112 (mode vii)
Ecce veniet Propheta & Psalm 113 (mode iv)
Hymn: Creator alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv)
Magnificat antiphon: Tu es qui venturus es (mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent, 2 December 2018

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Veni Domine (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Come, O Long Expected Jesus (Stuttgart)
Introit: Ad te levavi (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Universi qui te exspectant (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Ad te Domine levavi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Matin Responsory for Advent (after Palestrina)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for a Votive Mass for the Remission of Sins, 29 November 2018

Thursday, 29 November 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for a Votive Mass for the Remission of Sins
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Praeludium in G minor (BuxWV 149) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Rex splendens (Vatican Gradual, Mass VII)
Gregorian Mass for the Remission of Sins: Misereris omnium
Offertory: Domine exaudi orationem (plainsong, mode iv, with verses)
Communion: Petite et accipietis (plainsong, mode i, with the Miserere)
Postlude: "Big" Praeludium in E minor (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

This Mass is sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny.
It will followed by an address in the parish hall by Martin Mosebach:
"By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them: Six Theses on the Liturgical Reform"

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, 25 November 2018

Music for the Twenty-Seventh & Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Suite pour orgue: Prélude (Op. 5) (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Hymn at the Procession: God of All Power, and Truth, and Grace (Breslau)
Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu (Pierre de Manchicourt, c.1510-1564)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (prima pars) (Ludwig Senfl, 1486-1543)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina (De profundis, secunda pars) (Senfl)
Postlude: Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain (Op. 7) (Duruflé)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King (Ich glaub an Gott)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gradual: Dominabitur (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (Ambrosian plainsong)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: The Beatitudes (Arvo Pärt, b.1935)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for St. Cecilia’s Day, 22 November 2018

Thursday, 22 November 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Cecilia: Loquebar
Hymn at the Offertory: Jesu corona Virginum (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Anima Christi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Coe fen)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, 18 November 2018

Music for the Twenty-Sixth after Pentecost
(Lections of the Sixth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Psalm-Prelude Set 2, No. 1 (Out of the deep) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: O Thou Who Camest from Above (Hereford)
Mass in the Dorian Mode (Howells)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: Salve Regina (Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (Gaspar van Weerbecke, c.1445-1516)
Postlude: Rhapsody in E-flat (Op. 17, No. 2) (Howells)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Introit: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito (plainsong, mode vi)
Missa Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gradual: Liberasti nos (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii, with verses)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quidquid (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Fear Not, O Land (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above