Monthly Archives: July 2008

Music for the Assumption of Our Lady, 15 August 2008

Music for the Assumption of Our Lady (Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Signum magnum (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes Hymn)
Communion: Beatam me dicent (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Postlude: Fantasie-Improvisation sur l’Ave maris stella (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for the Assumption of Our Lady (Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Toccata avanti la Messa della Madonna (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
Missa de Beata Virgine (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Gregorian Mass of the Assumption: Signum magnum
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: Ave maris stella (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Postlude: Ricercare dopo il Credo (per la Messa “In Festis Beatae Mariae Virginis”) (Frescobaldi)

Music for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 10 August 2008

Music for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Toccata avanti la Messa delli Apostoli (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Respice, Domine
Motet at the Offertory: In te, Domine, speravi (Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Ricercare con obligo del Basso come appare (Frescobaldi)

Music for the Nineteenth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Toccata avanti la Messa delli Apostoli (Frescobaldi)
Hymn at the Offertory: Faith of Our Fathers (St. Catherine)
Communion: Panis, quem ego dedero (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton)
Postlude: Ricercare con obligo del Basso come appare (Frescobaldi)

Music for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, 3 August 2008

Music for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Deus in adjutorium meum intende
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost: Deus in adjutorium meum intende
Motet at the Communion: Precatus est Moyses (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Domine exaudi orationem meam (Lasso)
Postlude: Ballade en mode phrygien (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)

Music for the Eighteenth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude from Messe Basse pour tous les Temps (Gaston Litaize, 1909-1991)
Hymn at the Offertory: At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (Salzburg)
Communion: Panem de caelo (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Communion: The Call (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Postlude: Chant de paix (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)

Music for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, 27 July 2008

Music for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on Kyrie Orbis Factor
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gregorian Mass of the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost: Deus in loco sancto suo
Motet at the Offertory: Beatus vir (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Hymn at the Communion: Christum Regem (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Improvisation on the Communio Honora Dominum

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on Down Ampney
Hymn at the Offertory: Lord of All Hopefulness (Slane)
Communion: Simile est regnum caelorum (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All (Sweet Sacrament)
Postlude: Cathédrales (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

Music for the Diocesan Mass on the 40th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Friday, 25 July 2008

Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart (Missale Romanum of 1962, 6:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit [What God wills is always best] (Max Reger, 1873-1916)
Missa Aspice Domine (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Sacred Heart: Cogitationes
Motet at the Offertory: Cor, arca legem continens (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: O bone et dulcis Domine Jesu (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Postlude: Canzona in D Minor (BuxWV 168) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, 20 July 2008

Music for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on Kyrie Stelliferi Conditor orbis
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost: Dum clamarem
Motet at the Offertory: Si iniquitates observaveris (Samuel Wesley, 1766-1837)
Sequence at the Communion: O panis dulcissime (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Es ist das Heil uns Kommen her (BWV 638) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Sixteenth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Adoro te devote (from Twelve Gregorian Preludes) (Kevin Allen)
Hymn at the Offertory: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (Lauda anima)
Communion: Acceptabis sacrificium (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Adoro te devote (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Per omnia saecula saeculorum (Allen)

Music for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, 13 July 2008

Music for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Ecce Deus adjuvat me
Missa Rex splendens (Vatican Gradual, Mass VII)
Gregorian Mass of the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost: Ecce Deus adjuvat me
Motet at the Offertory: Dixi confitebor (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Responsory at the Communion: In conspectu angelorum (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation on the Communion Qui manducat carnem meam

Music for the Fifteenth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Messe pour les convents (François Couperin, 1668-1733)
Hymn at the Offertory: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St. George’s Windsor)
Communion: Passer invenit (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Postlude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)