Category Archives: Music

Sunday, 6 May 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Vespers of the Fifth Sunday after Easter
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia & Psalms 109, 110, 111, 112, & 113 (mode vii)
Hymn: Ad regias Agni dapes (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Petite et accipietis (plainsong, mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: La Résurrection du Christ (from Livre du Saint-Sacrement) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: L'apparition du Christ ressuscité à Marie-Madeleine (from Livre du Saint-Sacrement) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Thee, Festival Day (Salve festa dies)
Missa super Im Maien (Jacobus Handl, 1550-1591)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Christus resurgens (prima pars) William Parsons, fl. 1545-1563)
Postlude: Symphonie Romane: Final (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Versets on Pange lingua (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Lamb’s High Feast (Salzburg)
Introit: Vocem jucunditatis (plainsong, mode iii)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Exivi a Patre (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: A New Commandment (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: The Beatitudes (Arvo Pärt, b.1935)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Symphonie Romane: Final (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Friday, 4 May 2018, 12:10 p.m.
The Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New York City
Music for a Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Introit: Cogitationes (plainsong, mode v)
Missa Regina caeli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Alleluia: Venite ad me (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Congratulamini mihi omnes (prima pars) (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Communion: Si quis sitit (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Recedentibus discipulis (Congratulamini, secunda pars) (Willaert)
Hymn at Benediction: O salutaris hostia (Werner)

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Athanasius
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of a Doxtor: In medio Ecclesiae
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter
and First Holy Communions
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Versets on Pange lingua (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Lamb's High Feast (Salzburg)
Missa Pange lingua (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Fouth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Motet at the Communion: Resurrexit sicut dixit (Regina caeli, cont'd) (Isaac)
Postlude: Præludium in G Major (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Introit: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode vi)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Præludium in G Major (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Mark
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Regina caeli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of One Martyr in Paschaltide: Protexisti me Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Congratulamini mihi omnes (prima pars) (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Motet at the Communion: Recedentibus discipulis (Congratulamini, secunda pars) (Willaert)
Postlude: Improvisation

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Missa Surrexit Pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: Surrexit Pastor bonus (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Surgens Jesus (Lassus)
Postlude: Rapsodie Sacrée (from L'Orgue mystique) (Op. 56, No. 19) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Introit: Misericordia Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Redemptionem misit Dominus (plainsong, mode ii)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for a Feria of Paschaltide
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Postlude: Improvisation