Category Archives: Music

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent, 25 February 2018

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Agincourt)
Missa Ave Regina caelorum (Guillaume Dufay, 1397-1474)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Lent: Reminiscere
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum II (Dufay)
Motet at the Communion: Audi benigne Conditor (Dufay)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Erhalt uns Herr)
Introit: Reminiscere (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Sciant gentes (plainsong, mode i)
Tract: Commovisti (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Meditabor (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Felice Anerio, 1560-1614)
Communion: Visionem (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: O Saviour of the World (John Goss, 1800-1880)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Ember Wednesday of Lent, 21 February 2018

Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Ember Wednesday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Ember Wednesday of Lent: Reminiscere
Hymn at the Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Lent, 18 February 2018

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Motet at the Offertory: Emendemus in melius (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Hymn at the Communion: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: Ductus est Jesus à 5 (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
The St. Gregory Student Schola
The St. John the Baptist Choristers

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Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Angelis suis (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Qui habitat (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Thou Knowest, Lord, The Secrets of Our Hearts (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, 17 February 2018

Saturday, 17 February 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Audivit Dominus
Hymn at the Offertory: Parce Domine (plainsong, mode i)

Mass will be preceded by the First Grade of the Catechumenate,
for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil.

Music for Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the imposition of ashes & Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Messa à Quattro in Canone (Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660-1725)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Juxta vestibulum (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, mode ii)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (Scarlatti)
Motet at the Communion: Miserere mei (Scarlatti)

Music for Quinquagesima Sunday, 11 February 2018

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

Music for a Votive Mass of Our Lady and Dedication of Marian Triptych, 7 February 2018

Music for a Votive Mass of Our Lady
and Dedication of the Triptych of Our Lady of Norwalk

Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Missale Romanum of 1962
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star (Stella)
Introit: Salve sancta Parens (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II (Mantova) (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gradual: Benedicta et venerabilis es (plainsong, mode iv] Tract: Gaude Maria Virgo (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (Giammateo Asola, 1532-1609)
Communion: Beata viscera (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Postlude: Versets on Ave Maris stella (Op. 18, Nos. 6-9) (Marcel Dupré, 1886-1971)

The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary's Choir
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
Viri Galilæi