Monthly Archives: November 2007

Music for the First Sunday of Advent, 2 December 2007

Music for the First Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.) Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd, c.1543-1623) Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi Motet at the Offertory: Ad te levavi (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594) Motet at the Communion: Conditor alme siderum (Guillaume Dufay, c.1400-1474) Hymn of Thanksgiving:…
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Music for the Feast of Christ the King, 25 November 2007

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)

Music for Thanksgiving Day, 22 November 2007, 9:00 a.m.

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)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year, 18 November 2007

Prelude: Apparition de l’Eglise éternelle (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)

Hymn at the Offertory: Lord Christ, When First You Came to Earth (Mit Freuden zart)

Communion: Amen dico vobis (plainsong, mode i)

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

Postlude: Praeludium in F# Minor [BuxWV 146] (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year, 11 November 2007

Prelude: Prélude (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Gaston Litaize, 1909-1991)

Alleluia: Qui posuit (plainsong, mode iv)

Hymn at the Offertory: If There Be That Skills to Reckon (Lewes) (arr. Philip A. Prince)

Communion: Dominus regit me (plainsong, mode ii)

Organ meditation at the Communion: Communion (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Litaize)

Postlude: Prière d’action de grâces (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Litaize)