Monthly Archives: April 2009

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter, 26 April 2009

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BuxWV 198) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I), with Kyrie Te Christe Rex supplices
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (Estêvão de Brito, 1570-1641)
Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Third Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Now the Green Blade Riseth (Noel Nouvelet)
Communion: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, 1657-1743)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Octave Day of Easter, 19 April 2009

Music for the Octave Day of Easter (Low Sunday) (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Jacobus de Kerle, c.1532-1591)
Gregorian Mass for the Octave Day of Easter: Quasi modo
Motet at the Offertory: Post dies octo (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Christus resurgens ex mortuis (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Post dies octo (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Sons and Daughters (O filii et filiae, plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Mitte manum tuam (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today (Surgit in haec dies)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for Easter Sunday, 12 April 2009

Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Terra tremuit (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Haec dies (Byrd)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~

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Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Introit: Resurrexi (plainsong, mode iv)
Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Organ music as above

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

Music for the Solemn Easter Vigil, 11 April 2009

Music for the Great Paschal Vigil and First Mass of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 8:00 p.m.)

Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
The Exsultet (plainsong)
Canticle after the Seventh Reading: Sicut cervus (plainsong, mode viii)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode viii)
At the procession to the Baptismal Font: Litany of the Saints (plainsong)
Hymn at the Baptisms: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession after the Baptisms: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon at the Confirmations: Confirma hoc Deus (plainsong, mode viii)
At the Aspersion: Vidi aquam (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: ¡Dios reina!
Communion: Pascha nostrum (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Hymn at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~
~ Coro Hispano de Santa Maria ~

Music for Good Friday, 10 April 2009

Music for Good Friday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 3:00 p.m.)
Tract: Domine, exaudi orationem meam (plainsong, mode ii)
Gradual: Christus factus est (plainsong, mode v)
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. John (plainsong; turba settings by Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)
Antiphon: Crucem tuam (plainsong, mode iv)
The Reproaches (plainsong)
Hymn at the Adoration of the Cross: Crux fidelis (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Translation of the Sacrament: Vexilla Regis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Tenebrae factae sunt (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: O Bone Jesu (Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, c.1547-1592; often attrib. Palestrina)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sacred Head Surrounded (Passion Chorale)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~
~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

Music for Holy Thursday, 9 April 2009

Music for the Solemn Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Missale Romanum of 1970, 7:00 p.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Introit: Nos autem gloriari (plainsong, mode iv)
Gradual: Oculi omnium (plainsong, mode vii)
Tract: Ab ortu solis (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphons at the Mandatum: Mandatum; Postquam surrexit Dominus; Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes?
Offertory: Ubi caritas (plainsong, mode vi)
Communion: Hoc corpus (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Unidos por el amor de Cristo
Hymn at the Communion: En el pan y en el caliz (José Soler)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Hymn at the Procession: Pange lingua gloriosi (plainsong, mode iii)

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~
~ Coro Hispano de Santa Maria
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