Monthly Archives: March 2008

Music for the Octave Day of Easter, 30 March 2008

Music for the Octave Day of Easter (Low Sunday) (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on the Alleluia In die resurrectionis meae
Missa Octavi Toni (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass for the Octave Day of Easter: Quasi modo
Motet at the Offertory: Angelus Domini (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Post dies octo (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Postlude: Improvisation on Surrexit Christus hodie

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Erschienen Ist der Herrliche Tag, BWV 629 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Alleluia: Post dies octo (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Sons and Daughters (O filii et filiae, plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Mitte manum tuam (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (Gaudeamus pariter)
Postlude: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for Easter Sunday, 23 March 2008

Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ ist erstanden (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina caeli (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Terra tremuit (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Postlude: Improvisation on the Alleluia Pascha nostrum

Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ ist erstanden (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Sequence: Victimae Paschali laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (plainchant, mode vii)
At the Aspersion: Vidi aquam (plainchant, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: At The Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (Salzburg)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (plainchant, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Haec dies (Ludovico da Viadana, 1564-1627)
Hymn at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 1 (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

Music for the Easter Vigil, 22 March 2008

Music for the Easter Vigil (Missale Romanum of 1970, 8:00 p.m.)
The Exsultet (plainsong)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode viii)
Litany of the Saints (plainsong)
At the Aspersion: Vidi aquam (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: ¡Aleluya! ¡Cristo Jesús resucitó! (O filii et filiae)
Hymn at the Offertory: At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing (Salzburg)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Motet at the Communion: Haec dies (Ludovico da Viadana, 1564-1627)
Hymn at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Postlude: Allegro maestoso from Sonata No. 4 (Op. 65) (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847)

Music for Good Friday, 21 March 2008

Music for the Celebration of the Lord's Passion (Missale Romanum of 1970, 3:00 p.m.)
Gradual: Christus factus est (plainsong, mode v)
Antiphon: Crucem tuam (plainsong, mode iv)
The Reproaches (plainsong)
Hymn at the Procession: Crux fidelis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Adoramus Te, Christe (Theodore Dubois, 1837-1924)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sacred Head Surrounded (Passion Chorale)

Music for Holy Thursday, 20 March 2008

Music for the Solemn Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (Missale Romanum of 1970, 7:00 p.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Antiphons at the mandatum: Postquam surrexit Dominus etc.
Hymn at the Offertory: Ubi caritas (plainsong, mode vi)
Communion: Hoc corpus (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Hymn at the Procession: Pange lingua gloriosi (plainsong, mode iii)