Monthly Archives: November 2016

Music for the First Sunday of Advent, 27 November 2016

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Laetentur caeli (Byrd)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni Emmanuel)
Introit: Ad te levavi (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Ad te Domine levavi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Matin Responsory for Advent (after Palestrina)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (continued)

Post-election reflections

Last week I commented on the devastation of the basilica of St. Benedict and the monastery in Norcia and suggested that this was a sign of the death of what we called Western Civilization since the early Middle Ages.  I write this column this Wednesday morning bleary-eyed, having stayed up until the wee hours of…
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Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, 20 November 2016

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Op. 135a, No. 4) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)
Hymn at the Procession: Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (Austria)
Messe basse (Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Gloria: Missa Alme Pater (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis [Ps. 129, prima pars] (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina [Ps. 129, secunda pars] (Lassus)
Postlude: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor (BWV 542) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
The St. Gregory Student Schola
The St. John the Baptist Choristers

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Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Diademata)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong, with organum)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: The Royal Banners Forward Go (Agincourt Hymn)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, 13 November 2016

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
(Lections of the Sixth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (BWV 669) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ, Enthroned in Highest Heaven (Lewes)
Missa Fons bonitatis (Vatican Gradual, Mass II)
Introit: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517, from Choralis Constantinus)
Gradual: Liberasti nos (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: De profundis (Isaac, contrafacted)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Exaudi Domine vocem meam (prima pars) (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quidquid orantes (Isaac)
Motet at the Communion: Ne avertas faciem tuam (Exaudi Domine, secunda pars) (Lassus)
Postlude: Christe, aller Welt Trost (BWV 670); Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (BWV 671) (Bach)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Introit: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito (plainsong, mode vi)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Blessed City, Heavenly Salem (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quidquid (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of St. Martin I, 12 November 2016

Saturday, 12 November 2016, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Martin I
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of a Sovereign Pontiff: Si diligis me
Hymn at the Communion: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation

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 Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 6 November 2016

Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
(Lections of the Fifth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: De profundis (from Neuf Pièces) (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Hymn at the Procession: Lead, Kindly Light (Alberta)
Missa Dittes maistresse (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (prima pars) (Ludwig Senfl, 1486-1543)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina (De profundis, secunda pars) (Senfl)
Postlude: Allegro moderato e serioso from Organ Sonata No. 1 in F minor (Op. 65, No. 1) (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847)

Music for the Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: God, Whose Almighty Word (Italian Hymn)
Introit: Intret oratio mea (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Alleluia: Qui posuit (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Gressus meos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: A New Commandment (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Dominus regit me (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above