Category Archives: Music

Music for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, 7 October 2018

Music for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes hymn)
Missa de Beata Maria (David J. Hughes, b.1980)
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady of the Rosary: Gaudeamus
Motet at the Offertory: Salve Regina (Christopher Tye, c.1505-1572)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Jean L'Heritier, 1480-1551)
Postlude: Prelude, Fugue, & Chorale on Ave maris stella (Flor Peeters, 1903-1986)

Music for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God of Loveliness (Schönster Herr Jesu)
Introit: In voluntate tua (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa cum jubilio (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Domine, refugium factus es (plainsong, mode ii)
Alleluia: In exitu Israel (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Vir erat in terra (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Beati omnes (prima pars) (Cipriano de Rore, c.1515-1565)
Communion: In salutari tuo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Requiem Mass for Gertrude Catherine Schmitt, 4 October 2018

Thursday, 4 October 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Requiem Masss for Gertrude Catherine Schmitt
(Missale Romanum of 2002)

Missa pro defunctis à 4 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Introit: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Kyrie: Missa pro defunctis (Morales)
Gradual: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Morales)
Sanctus: Missa brevis (Gertrude Schmitt, 1932-2018)
Agnus Dei: Missa brevis (Schmitt)
Communion: Lux æterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
At the absolution: Subvenite (plainsong, mode iv)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession to the cemetery: Credo quod Redemptor (plainsong, mode viii)
At the cemetery: Ego sum resurrectio, with the Benedictus

Requiescat in pace.

Music for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 30 September 2018

Music for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Gaston Litaize, 1909-1991)
Hymn at the Procession: Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee (St. Botolph)
Missa Iste sanctus (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Gregorian Mass of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Salus populi
Motet at the Offertory: Ecce prandium meum (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 1562-1621)
Motet at the Communion: Comedite panem meum (Ecce prandium, secund pars) (Sweelinck)
Postlude: Prière d’action de grâces (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Litaize)

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: How Good the Name of Jesus Sounds (St. Peter)
Introit: Omnia quae fecisti (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gradual: Oculi omnium (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Paratum cor meum (plainsong, mode iii)
Offertory: Super flumina Babylonis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: My Eyes for Beauty Pine (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Communion: Memento verbi tui (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: O How Amiable (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for Michaelmas, 29 September 2018

Saturday, 29 September 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Messe de Tournai 
(anon, XIV C.)
Gregorian Mass of Michaelmas: Benedicite Dominum
Offertory: Stetit Angelus (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Hymn at the Communion: Te splendor et virtus Patris (plainsong, mode ii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

This Mass of St. Michael will be offered as Mass of Reparation.

Music for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 23 September 2018

Music for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Chant de Paix (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Hymn at the Procession: God Everlasting, Wonderful and Holy (Diva Servatrix)
Missa Scarco di doglia (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Da pacem Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Ave verum corpus (prima pars) (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Cujus latus / O dulcis (Ave verum, secunda et tertia pars) (Josquin)
Postlude: "Big" Praeludium in E minor (BWV 847) (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Hymn at the Procession: Praise to the Lord (Lobe den Herren)
Introit: Salus populi (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gradual: Prope est Dominus (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Si ambulavero (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Communion: Tu mandasti (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: Richard de Castre’s Prayer to Jesus (R.R. Terry, 1865-1938)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, 16 September 2018

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Intermezzo and Adagio from Symphony No. 3 (Op. 28) (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the Procession: Thus Saith the First, the Great Command (Germany)
Missa Ecce quam bonum (Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612)
Gregorian Mass of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Justus es Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Cantate Domino (Hassler)
Motet at the Communion: O sacrum convivium (Stefano Felis, 1538-1603)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 3 (Vierne)

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Beyond All Praising (Thaxted)
Introit: Da pacem Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Timebunt gentes (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Sanctificavit Moyses (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Communion: Qui vult venire (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: The secret of Christ (Richard Shephard, b.1949)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 9 September 2018

Music for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich (BWV 682) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: All My Hope On God Is Founded (Michael)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gregorian Mass of the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Miserere mihi Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Domine non sum dignus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
At the Communion: Ego sum panis vivus (Lodovico Agostini, 1534-1590)
Postlude: Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 538) (Bach)

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)
Introit: Justus es Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Beata gens (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Domine, exaudi orationem meam (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Oravi Deum meum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Coe fen) (Kenneth Naylor, 1931-1991)
Communion: Vovete et reddite (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: All My Hope On God Is Founded (Michael)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above