Monthly Archives: December 2017

Music for Vespers of the Holy Family, 7 January 2018

Sunday, 7 January 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Feast of the Holy Family
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Post triduum invenerunt & Psalm 109 (mode viii)
Dixit Mater Jesu & Psalm 112 (mode iv)
Descent Jesus cum eis & Psalm 121 (mode viii)
Et Jesus proficiebat & Psalm 126 (mode ii)
Et dicebat: Unde huic & Psalm 147 (mode viii)
Hymn: O lux beata Caelitum (plainsong, mode ii)
Magnificat antiphon: Maria autem conservabat (mode viii)
Commemoration of the Sunday: Fili quid fecisti (mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

The Octave of Christmas

The time between Christmas and New Year’s Day is a unique time of the year. Despite the after-Christmas sales and all of that stuff, there is quietness about this octave, these eight days. People go to work—at least those who can’t afford to go to skiing for a week or go someplace warm—but there is…
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Music for the Feast of the Holy Family, 7 January 2018

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Once In Royal David's City (Irby)
Missa corrente (Francesco Foggia, 1603-1688)
Gregorian Mass of the Holy Family: Exsultet gaudio
Motet at the Offertory: Alma Redemptoris Mater II à 4 (Felice Anerio, 1560-1614)
Motet at the Communion:  Videntes stellam (Andrea Gabrieli, 1533-1585)
Postlude: Versets on A solis ortus cardine / Crudelis Herodes (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prelude on the Introit for the Epiphany (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Hymn at the Procession: What Star Is This (Puer nobis)
Introit: Ecce advenit (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Omnes de Saba (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Reges Tharsis (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Offertory: The First Nowell
Communion: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Morning Star)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Versets on A solis ortus cardine / Crudelis Herodes (Grigny)

Music for a Feria of Christmastide, 3 January 2018

Wednesday, 3 January 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for a Feria of Christmastide
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis 
(Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Postlude: Noël No. X (Louis Claude Daquin, 1694-1772)

Music for the Octave Day of Christmas, 1 January 2018

Monday, 1 January 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of the Circumcision & Octave Day of Christmas

(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Symphonie Gothique (Op. 70): II. Andante sostenuto (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Name of Jesus (King's Weston)
Missa Fa re ut fa sol la (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1551)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: O magnum mysterium (Morales)
Motet at the Communion: In nomine Jesu (Jacobus Handl, 1550-1591)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Symphonie Gothique: IV. Moderato (Widor)

 

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, 31 December 2017

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Puer nobis nascitur (Pierre Dandrieu, 1664-1733)
Hymn at the Procession: Of the Father's Heart Begotten (Corde natus ex Parentis)
Missa super Ich stund an einem Morgen (Jacobus Handl, 1550-1591)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: Resonet in laudibus (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Quem vidistis pastores (Lassus)
Hymn of Thanksgiving: Te Deum (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Partita on Puer nobis nascitur (Op. 127) (Flor Peeters, 1903-1986)

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ Was Born on Christmas Day (Resonet in laudibus)
Introit: Deus in loco sancto suo (plainsong, mode v)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Unam petii (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Gaudete justi (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: In te speravi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Once in Royal David's City (Irby)
Communion: Fili, quid fecisti (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Of the Father's Heart Begotten (Corde natus ex Parentis)
Organ music as above