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Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Music for First Vespers of the Ascension
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
St. Patrick’s Chapel
Viri Galilaei & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Cumque intuerentur & Psalm 110 (mode viii)
Elevatis manibus & Psalm 111 (mode iv)
Exaltate Regem regum & Psalm 112 (mode viii)
Videntibus illis & Psalm 116 (mode viii)
Hymn: Salutis humanae Sator (plainsong, mode iv)
Magnificat antiphon: Pater, manifestavi (mode vi)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)

Viri Galilæi

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

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
(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)

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

Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Athanasius
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of a Doxtor: In medio Ecclesiae
Postlude: Improvisation