Category Archives: Music

Music for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, 20 January 2019

Music for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude (from 24 pièces en style libre) (Op. 31, No. 1) (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the Procession: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (Salzburg)
Missa L'hora passa (Lodovico da Viadana, 1560-1627)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after the Epiphany: Omnis terra
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Motet at the Communion: Tribus miraculis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Postlude (from 24 pièces en style libre) (Op. 31, No. 24) (Vierne)

Music for the Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (Salzburg)
Introit: Omnis terra (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Misit Dominus (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Laudate Deum (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Communion: Dicit Dominus: Implete hydrias (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family, 13 January 2019

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Noël Nos. II & III (Louis-Claude Daquin, 1694-1772)
Hymn at the Procession: Once In Royal David's City (Irby)
Missa Fons bonitatis (Vatican Gradual, Mass II)
Gregorian Mass of the Holy Family: Exsultet gaudio
Motet at the Offertory: Quem vidistis (Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612)
Motet at the Communion:  Unam petii (Giovanni Francesco Anerio, 1567-1630)
Postlude: Noël No. VIII ("Étranger") (Daquin)

Music for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: As With Gladness Men of Old (Dix)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Introit: Dilexisti justitiam (plainsong, mode viii)
Gradual: Benedictus Dominus (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Benedictus qui venit (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Benedictus qui venit (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: The Blessed Son of God (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Communion: Omnes qui in Christo (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: See Amid the Winter's Snow (John Goss, 1814-1878)
Marian Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for Vespers of the Epiphany, 6 January 2019

Sunday, 6 January 2019, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Epiphany
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Ante luciferum genitus & Psalm 109 (mode ii)
Venit lumen tuum & Psalm 110 (mode i)
Apertis thesauris suis & Psalm 111 (mode i)
Maria et flumina & Psalm 112 (mode iv)
Stella ista & Psalm 113 (mode vii)
Hymn: Crudelis Herodes (plainsong, mode iii)
Magnificat antiphon: Tribus miraculis (mode i)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January 2019

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Les mages (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Hymn at the Procession: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Morning Star)
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the Epiphany: Ecce advenit
Motet at the Offertory: In nomine Jesu (Jacobus Handl, 1550-1591)
Motet at the Communion: Magi veniunt (Jacobus Clemens non Papa, c.1510-1558)
Postlude: Improvisation on Noël nouvelet

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: What Star Is This (Puer nobis)
Introit: Ecce advenit (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Omnes de Saba (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Reges Tharsis (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Offertory: The First Nowell
Communion: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Morning Star)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, 2 January 2019

Wednesday, 2 January 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Fons bonitatis (Vatican Gradual, Mass II)
Gregorian Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus: In nomine Jesu
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: At the Name of Jesus (King's Weston)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Octave Day of Christmas, 1 January 2019

Tuesday, 1 January 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Music for the Feast of the Circumcision & Octave Day of Christmas

(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Canonic variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (BWV 769) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: Angels From the Realms of Glory (Regent Square)
Missa Sancta et immaculata (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: O magnum mysterium (Andrea Rota, c.1553-1597)
Motet at the Communion: Mirabile mysterium (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Canonic variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (BWV 769) (Bach)

Tuesday, 1 January 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Mary, Mother of God

(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Hymn at the Procession: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Introit: Salve sancta parens (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Diffusa est gratia (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Post partum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Carol)
Communion: Exsulta filia Sion (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Angels We Have Heard On High (Gloria)
Organ music as above