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Sunday, 5 January 2014, 9:30 a.m.
Music for the Feast of the Epiphany
Solemn Mass in the Presence of a Greater Prelate
His Excellency Frank J. Caggiano
Bishop of Bridgeport
Prelude: Aequale No. 2 (Anton Bruckner, 1824-1896)
Motet at the procession: Ecce sacerdos magnus (Bruckner)
Prelude: Versets on A solis ortus cardine: En taille (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Cantus Missæ for double choir (Op. 109) (Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, 1839-1901)
Gregorian Mass of the Epiphany: Ecce advenit
Motet at the Offertory: Videntes stellam (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Magi veniunt (Jacobus Clemens non Papa, c.1510-1556)
Motet at the Communion: Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Blessing of the Altarpiece: Cantemus Domino (Laudemus nunc Dominum, secunda pars) (Jacob Obrecht, c.1458-1505)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 1 (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Choir
The St. Mary’s Student Schola

Music for the Feast of St. Mary, Mother of God
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: En taille à 5 (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Hymn at the Procession: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Savior)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Post partum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky (Eisenach)
Postlude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: Duo (Grigny)
Communion: Exsulta filia Sion (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Salve Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: Fugue à 4, Dialogue sur les grands jeux (Grigny)

Music for the Feast of the Circumcision & Octave Day of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour la Circoncision (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Tecum principium (Robert Fayrfax, 1464-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: Angelus ad pastores ait (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: O admirabile commercium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Fantaisie et Choral pour la Circoncision (Tournemire)

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Praeter rerum seriem (Cipriano de Rore, 1515-1565)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: Dum medium silentium
Motet at the Offertory: Praeter rerum seriem (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Virtus Sancti Spiritus (Praeter rerum seriem, secunda pars) (Josquin)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 608) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

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)
Offertory: In te speravi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (Wie schön leuchtet)
Communion: Tolle puerum (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: In the Bleak Midwinter (Cranham; arr. Holst)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo)
Organ music as above

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (BWV 700) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa O magnum mysterium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Day: Puer natus est
Gradual: Viderunt omnes (Pérotin, fl. c. 1200)
Motet at the Offertory: Hodie Christus natus est (Poulenc)
Motet at the Communion: Verbum caro factum est (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Bach)
Postlude: Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (BWV 606) (Bach)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

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Music for the Mass of Christmas Day
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. David Willcocks)
Introit: Puer natus est (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Tui sunt caeli (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Joy to the World (Antioch)
Hymn at the Offertory: Laetabundus [The Christmas Sequence] (plainsong, mode vi)
Communion: Viderunt omnes (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Unto Us Is Born A Son (arr. Willcocks)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks)
Organ music as above

The St. Mary’s Choir

The recitation of the Rosary begins at 11:00 p.m.

Carols & organ music begin at 11:30 p.m.
Prelude: Es is ein' Ros' entsprungen (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Carol: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Carol)
Carol: Of One That Is So Fair and Bright (David J. Hughes, b.1980)
Hymn: While Shepherds Watched (Winchester Old)
Hymn: Unto Us Is Born A Son (arr. David Willcocks, b.1919)
Carol: What Child Is This (Greensleves)
Carol: Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Prelude: Desseins éternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
The Solemn Proclamation of Christmas
Hymn at the Procession: Adeste Fideles (John Francis Wade, arr. Willcocks)

Music for the Midnight Mass of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 12:00 a.m.)
Messe solennelle (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Midnight: Dominus dixit
Motet at the Offertory: Hodie Christus natus est (Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963)
Motet at the Communion: Quem vidistis pastores (Cipriano de Rore, 1515-1565)
Motet at the Communion: O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Choir

Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil Mass of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Sonata II in D dorian (C 139) (Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, 1644-1704)
Prelude: Stella splendens (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, XIV C.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. David Willcocks)
Introit: Hodie scietis (plainsong, mode vi)
Mass of the Sacred Heart (Richard Rice, b.1962)
Offertory: Tollite portas (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Joy to the World (Antioch)
Communion: Revelabitur (plainsong, mode i)
Carol at the Communion: Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord, 1897-1961)
Carol at the Communion: Nowell Sing We (anon. English, XV C.)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks)
Postlude: Sonata Secunda (Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, c.1623-1680)

Brendan Ratchford, violin

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the procession: Veni, veni, Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i)
Missa de Beata Virgine à 5 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Advent: Rorate caeli
Motet at the Offertory: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v, solemn)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Veni, Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Saviour of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Rorate caeli (plainsong, mode iv)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v, simple)

Music for the Feast of St. Thomas
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 9:00 a.m.
Missale Romanum of 1962
Prelude: Improvisation
Gregorian Mass of St. Thomas: Mihi autem nimis
Kyrie, Agnus Dei: Missa Rex Genitor (Kevin Allen, b.1964)
Gloria, Sanctus: Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Postlude: Improvisation

This Missa cantata will be the first in the newly reopened St. Mary’s upper church
following the Fall 2013 renovation.

*postponed to 7 January 2014 because of snowstorm*

Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Anchor Academy Christmas Pageant
Veni, veni, Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i)
Creator alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv)
Ave Maria (French traditional)
Laudemus Virginem (from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, XIV C.)
Magnificat (mode vii, with versets by Orlando di Lasso)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
What Child Is This (Greensleeves)
Angels We Have Heard on High (Gloria)
Silent Night (Stille Nacht)

The St. Mary’s Student Schola:
Scholæ Ss. Benedicti & Scholasticæ

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
At the procession: Improvisation
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete
Motet at the Offertory: Conditor alme siderum (Guillaume Dufay, c.1397-1474)
Motet at the Communion: Audivi vocem (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Postlude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, Divine Messiah (Venez, Divin Messie)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Benedixisti (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above