Category Archives: Special Masses

Music for the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul
Friday, 29 June 2018, 6:00 p.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of the Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul: Nunc scio vere
Improvisation at the Offertory
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the imposition of ashes & Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Messa à Quattro in Canone (Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660-1725)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Juxta vestibulum (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, mode ii)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (Scarlatti)
Motet at the Communion: Miserere mei (Scarlatti)

Music for a Votive Mass of Our Lady
and Dedication of the Triptych of Our Lady of Norwalk
Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Missale Romanum of 1962
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star (Stella)
Introit: Salve sancta Parens (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II (Mantova) (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gradual: Benedicta et venerabilis es (plainsong, mode iv] Tract: Gaude Maria Virgo (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (Giammateo Asola, 1532-1609)
Communion: Beata viscera (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Postlude: Versets on Ave Maris stella (Op. 18, Nos. 6-9) (Marcel Dupré, 1886-1971)

The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary's Choir
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
Viri Galilæi

Friday, 2 February 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of the Purification of Our Lady (Candlemas)
(Missale Romanum of 1962)

Prelude: La Vierge et l'Enfant; Desseins eternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

At the Blessing of Candles & Procession
At the blessing of candles: Lumen ad revelationem gentium (plainsong, mode viii), etc.
At the procession: Angularis fundamentum (Regent Square)
At the procession: Adorna thalamum (plainsong, mode vi)

At Mass
Messe cum jubilo (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Gregorian Mass of Candlemas: Suscepimus Deus
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Leonel Power, 1370-1445)
Motet at the Communion: Quem terra, pontus, aethera (William Byrd, 1540-1623)

Postlude: Fantaisie-Improvisation sur l’Ave maris stella (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

St. Mary's Schola Cantorum