Category Archives: Music

Music for Quinquagesima Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Toccata in G Major (BuxWV 164) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Hymn at the Procession: Word of God, Come Down on Earth (Liebster Jesu)
Missa Rex splendens (Vatican Gradual, Mass VII)
Gregorian Mass of Quinquagesima: Esto mihi
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Alonso Lobo, 1555-1617)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce ascendimus (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Postlude: Ciacona in E minor (BuxWV 160) (Buxtehude)

Music for the Eighth 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: Esto mihi (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Tu es Deus (plainsong, mode iii)
Alleluia: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Benedictus es Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Offertory: O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Nun danket all und bringet Ehr)
Communion: Manducaverunt (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Geistliches Lied (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 10 February 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Scholastica
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of a Virgin not a Martyr: Dilexisti
Postlude: Improvisation

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of Sexagesima Sunday
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: Vobis datum est (mode vi)
Commemoration of St. Agatha: Stans beata Agatha (mode i)
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

The sermon will be preached by Fr. Carleton Jones, OP

Music for Sexagesima Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude (Op. 93/1) (Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov, 1865-1936, arr. Dupré)
Hymn at the Procession: Fight the Good Fight (Duke Street)
Missa Non è lasso martire (Leonhard Lechner, c.1553-1606)
Gregorian Mass of Sexagesima: Exsurge
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: In illo tempore: cum turba (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Postlude: Fugue (Op. 93/2) (Glazunov)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: God, Whose Almighty Word (Italian Hymn)
Introit: Venite, adoremus Deum (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Tollite hostias (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Perfice gressus meos (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Out of the Deep (Thomas Tomkins, 1572-1656)
Communion: Multitudo languentium (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Litany to the Holy Spirit (Peter Hurford, b.1930)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. John Bosco
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Gregorian Mass of St. John Bosco: Dedit illi Deus
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Puerorum (Op. 62) (Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, 1839-1901)
Gloria: Missa Sincere in memoriam (Op. 187) (Rheinberger)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Elgar)
Postlude: Master Tallis's Testament (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)

St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for Septuagesima Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Sicilienne (Op. 53, No. 2) (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the Procession: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Blaenwern)
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum (Alonso Lobo, 1555-1617)
Gregorian Mass of Septuagesima: Circumdederunt me
Motet at the Offertory: Simile est regnum caelorum à 4 (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Et egressus (Simile est, secunda pars) (Guerrero)
Postlude: Carillon de Westminster (Op. 54, No. 6) (Vierne)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Blaenwern)
Introit: Laetetur cor (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Quis sicut Dominus (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Adorabo ad templum (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Bonum est confiteri (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Verily, Verily I Say Unto You (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Illumina (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Domine exaudi orationem meam (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above