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Music for All Souls’ Day, 2 November 2018

Friday, 2 November 2018, 12:10 p.m.
Music for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Missa pro defunctis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Introit: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode vi)
Alleluia: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Lux aeterna (plainsong, mode viii)

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Friday, 2 November 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Music for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Motet at the Offertory: Si bona suscepimus (Constanzo Porta, 1528-1601)
Motet at the Communion: Parce mihi (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)

The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum

Music for All Saints’ Day, 1 November 2018

Thursday, 1 November 2018, 12:10 p.m.
Music for the Feast of All Saints
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: La Cité céleste (Lionel Rogg, b.1936)
Introit: Gaudeamus (plainsong, mode i)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Venite ad me (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: For All the Saints (Sine nomine)
Communion: Beati mundo corde (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: For All the Saints (Sine nomine) (continued)
Postlude: La Cité céleste [inversée] (Rogg)

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Thursday, 1 November 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Music for the Feast of All Saints
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: La Cité céleste (Rogg)
Hymn at the Procession: For All the Saints (Sine nomine)
Missa O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of All Saints: Gaudeamus
Motet at the Offertory: O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
Motet at the Communion: Amen dico vobis: quod vos (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones (Lasst uns erfreuen)
Postlude: La Cité céleste [inversée] (Rogg)

The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, 28 October 2018

Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Passacaglia in C minor (BWV 582/1) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: The Head That Once was Crowned with Thorns (St. Magnus)
Missa della battaglia (Giovanni Francesco Anerio, 1567-1630)
Gregorian Mass of Christ the King: Dignus est Agnus
Motet at the Offertory: Sancte Deus (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Fugue in C minor (BWV 582/2) (Bach)

Music for the Thirtieth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns (St. Magnus)
Introit: Laetetur cor (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Unam petii (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Lauda Jerusalem (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Domine, vivifica me (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (impares) (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Communion: Laetabimur (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord (Anthony Piccolo, b.1953)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor (BWV 582) (Bach)

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Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, 21 October 2018

Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour le vingt-deuxième dimanche après la Pentecôte (from L’Orgue mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the procession: God of Mercy, God of Grace (Heathlands)
Missa Dittes maistresse (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost: Si iniquitates
Motet at the Offertory: Amen dico vobis (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Adoramus te Christe (Jacobus Handl, 1550-1591)
Postlude: Postlude Alleluiatique (pour le vingt-deuxième dimanche après la Pentecôte) (Tournemire)

Music for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Word of God, Come Down on Earth (Liebster Jesu)
Introit: Ego clamavi (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Salvum fac populum tuum (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Lauda anima mea (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Meditabor (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesus, Lover of My Soul (Aberswyth) (arr. David Hughes)
Communion: Domine Dominus noster (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Panis angelicus (Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above