Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, 30 December 2012

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour le Dimanche dans l’Octave de Noël (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: Dum medium silentium
Motet at the Offertory: Pastores loquebantur (Jacobus Clemens non Papa, c.1510-1556)
Motet at the Communion: Et venerunt festinantes (Clemens)
Postlude: Les enfants de Dieu (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Once in Royal David’s City (Irby)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Gaudete justi (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
Communion: Tolle, puerum (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Coventry Carol
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

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