Category Archives: Music

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
(Lections of the Fourth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not (BWV 686) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Out of the Depths, to You, O Lord, We Cry (Alberta)
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Nicolas Champion, c.1475-1533)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia (De profundis, secunda pars) (Champion)
Postlude: Sonata No. 3 in A Major: Con moto maestoso (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847)

Music for the Thirty-First Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: God of Our Fathers (National Hymn)
Introit: Ne derelinquas me (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gradual: Suscepimus Deus (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Verbo Domini (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Benedic anima mea (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Offertory: A Song of Trust (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Communion: Notas mihi (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Purest and Highest (Hymn after a Song of Trust) (Stanford)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil of All Saints
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of the Vigil of All Saints: Judicant Sancti
Postlude: La Cité Céleste (Lionel Rogg, b.1936)

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)

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

Music for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Trivium (Arvo Pärt, b.1935)
Hymn at the Procession: Soldiers of Christ, Arise (Diademata)
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost: In voluntate tua
Motet at the Offertory: Cantate Domino (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, 1657-1743)
Motet at the Communion: Adoramus te Christe (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Carillon de Westminster (Op. 54, No. 6) (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

Music for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: All You Who Seek a Comfort Sure (Kingsfold)
Introit: Si iniquitates (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Ecce quam bonum (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Qui timent Dominum (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Recordare mei (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: O God of Loveliness (Schönster Herr Jesu)
Communion: Aufer a me (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: De profundis (Pärt)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 13 October 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Edward the Confessor
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of a Confessor not a Bishop: Os justi
Postlude: Improvisation

Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Francis Borgia
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Jesu Redemptor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIV)
Gregorian Mass of an Abbot: Os justi
Hymn at the Offertory: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation

Monday, 8 October 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Requiem Masss for Jean-Pierre Bourtin
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Jean Mouton, 1459-1522)
Motet at the Communion: Pie Jesu (Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession to the cemetery: Ego sum resurrectio, with the Benedictus