Category Archives: Music

Requiem for Jean-Pierre Bourtin, 8 October 2018

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

Music for Vespers of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, 7 October 2018

Sunday, 7 October 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Dixit Dominus & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Magna opera Domini & Psalm 110 (mode iii)
Qui timet Dominum & Psalm 111 (mode iv)
Sit nomen Domini & Psalm 112 (mode vii)
Deum autem noster & Psalm 113 (mode i)
Hymn: Lucis Creator optime (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Cognovit autem pater
Commemoration of Our Lady of the Rosary: Beata Mater
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

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.