Category Archives: Music

Music for the Vigil of the Ascension, 9 May 2018

Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil of the Ascension
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Regina cæli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Viri Galilaei (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Viri Galilæi
The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for Vespers of the Fifth Sunday after Easter, 6 May 2018

Sunday, 6 May 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Vespers of the Fifth Sunday after Easter
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia & Psalms 109, 110, 111, 112, & 113 (mode vii)
Hymn: Ad regias Agni dapes (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Petite et accipietis (plainsong, mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: La Résurrection du Christ (from Livre du Saint-Sacrement) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter, 6 May 2018

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: L'apparition du Christ ressuscité à Marie-Madeleine (from Livre du Saint-Sacrement) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Thee, Festival Day (Salve festa dies)
Missa super Im Maien (Jacobus Handl, 1550-1591)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Christus resurgens (prima pars) William Parsons, fl. 1545-1563)
Postlude: Symphonie Romane: Final (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Versets on Pange lingua (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Lamb’s High Feast (Salzburg)
Introit: Vocem jucunditatis (plainsong, mode iii)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Exivi a Patre (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: A New Commandment (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: The Beatitudes (Arvo Pärt, b.1935)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Symphonie Romane: Final (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for a Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart, Blessed Sacrament, NYC, 4 May 2018

Friday, 4 May 2018, 12:10 p.m.
The Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New York City

Music for a Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Introit: Cogitationes (plainsong, mode v)
Missa Regina caeli 
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Alleluia: Venite ad me (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Congratulamini mihi omnes (prima pars) (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Communion: Si quis sitit (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Recedentibus discipulis (Congratulamini, secunda pars) (Willaert)
Hymn at Benediction: O salutaris hostia (Werner)

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter, 29 April 2018

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter
and First Holy Communions
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Versets on Pange lingua (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Lamb's High Feast (Salzburg)
Missa Pange lingua (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Fouth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Motet at the Communion: Resurrexit sicut dixit (Regina caeli, cont'd) (Isaac)
Postlude: Præludium in G Major (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Introit: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode vi)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Præludium in G Major (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

Music for the Feast of St. Mark, 25 April 2018

Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Mark
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Regina caeli 
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of One Martyr in Paschaltide: Protexisti me Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Congratulamini mihi omnes (prima pars) (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Motet at the Communion: Recedentibus discipulis (Congratulamini, secunda pars) (Willaert)
Postlude: Improvisation

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Rosary Concerts at St. Mary’s

The Glorious Mysteries Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. Baroque violinist Leah Gale Nelson is featured in this concert-meditation of five virtuosic Mystery Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. FREE ADMISSION Followed by a light reception and Solemn Vespers & Benediction at 5:00 p.m. Donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds benefiting the sacred music…
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Music for the Third Sunday after Easter, 22 April 2018

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Missa Surrexit Pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: Surrexit Pastor bonus (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Surgens Jesus (Lassus)
Postlude: Rapsodie Sacrée (from L'Orgue mystique) (Op. 56, No. 19) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

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, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Redemptionem misit Dominus (plainsong, mode ii)
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 (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above