Monthly Archives: April 2016

Music for First Holy Communions, 30 April 2016

Saturday, 30 April 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Music for First Holy Communions
and Anticipatory Mass of the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons (Op. 12) (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Processional Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Panis angelicus (Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921)
Communion: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Motet at the Communion: I Sat Down (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Versets on Verbum supernum: En taille à 4, Fugue, Récit en dialogue, Récit de Basse de Trompette (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter, 24 April 2016

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour le quatrième dimanche après Pâques (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Processional Hymn: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Kyrie, Gloria: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei: Missa Cantate (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558)
Gregorian Mass of the Fouth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Jubilate Deo (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli à 6 (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Fresque Alléluiatique pour le quatrième dimanche après Pâques

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: O be joyful in the Lord (William Boyce, 1711-1779)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Awake, Thou Wintry Earth (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Requiem Mass for Tibor Kerekes, 22 April 2016

Friday, 22 April 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Requiem Masss for Tibor Kerekes
(Missale Romanum of 1962)

Missa pro defunctis à 4 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Introit: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Gradual: Requiem æternam (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Absolve Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Sequence: Dies iræ (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Morales)
Communion: Lux æterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter, 17 April 2016

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BuxWV 198) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: In resurrectione tua (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Christus resurgens (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Postlude: Toccata & Fugue in E Major (BWV 566) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Introit: Misericordia Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: I Sat Down (Bairstow)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Nuptial Mass of Victoria McCaffrey and Emmett Ackerlund, 15 April 2016

Saturday, 15 April 2016, 3:00 p.m.
Music for the Nuptial Mass of Victoria McCaffrey & Emmett Ackerlund
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
At the Procession: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
At the Bridal Procession: Prince of Denmark's March (Jeremiah Clarke, c.1674-1707)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Offertory: Surge propera amica mea (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: O sacrum convivium (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian Motet: Ave Maria (Robert Parsons, c.1530-1572)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Bach)

Music for the Third Sunday of Easter, St. Paul’s, Harvard Square, 10 April 2016

Sunday, 10 April 2016, 11:00 a.m.
St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Music for the Third Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Andante in F (K. 616) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Introit: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Procession: The Strife Is O'er (Victory)
Missa Brevis in D Major (K. 194) (Mozart)
Alleluia: Cognoverunt discipuli (plainsong, mode iii)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Credo III
Offertory: Lauda anima mea (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339) (Mozart)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (St. Fulbert)
Communion: Simon Joannis (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Christ the Lord is Risen Again (Llanfair)
Postlude: Improvisation sur les thèmes donnés de Mozart

The Choir of St. Paul's, Harvard Square
John Robinson, Director

The St. Mary's Student Schola
David Hughes, Director

Jonathan Wessler, Assistant Organist

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter, 10 April 2016

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Intermezzo from Organ Sonata No. 4 (Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, 1839-1901)
Hymn at the Procession: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (St. Columba)
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Surrexit Pastor bonus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Imperial March (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)

We welcome Charles Weaver as the guest director
and Eric Dolch as the guest organist for this Mass.

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Music for the Third Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: That Easter Day With Joy Was Bright (Puer nobis)
Introit: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode viii)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Lauda anima mea (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (Salzburg)
Communion: Simon Joannis (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Most Glorious Lord of Life (William H. Harris, 1883-1973)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

We welcome Eric Dolch as the guest director & organist for this Mass.

Music for a Saturday of Our Lady in Paschaltide, 9 April 2016

Saturday, 9 April 2016, 9:00 a.m.
Music for a Saturday of Our Lady in Paschaltide
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gregorian Mass of Saturdays of Our Lady in Christmastide: Salve sancta parens
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.

Music for the Feast of the Annunciation, 4 April 2016

Monday, 4 April 2016, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of the Annunciation
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Messe cum jubilo (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Gregorian Mass of the Annunciation: Vultum tuum
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli à 5 (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: Beata viscera (Pérotin, fl. c. 1200)
Postlude: Improvisation