Category Archives: Music

Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 7:00 p.m.
Music for First Vespers of the Ascension
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
St. Patrick's Chapel
Viri Galilaei & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Cumque intuerentur & Psalm 110 (mode viii)
Elevatis manibus & Psalm 111 (mode iv)
Exaltate Regem regum & Psalm 112 (mode viii)
Videntibus illis & Psalm 116 (mode viii)
Hymn: Salutis humanae Sator (plainsong, mode iv)
Magnificat antiphon: Pater, manifestavi (mode vi)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)

Viri Galilæi

Sunday, 1 May 2016, 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: Improvisation

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
and First Holy Communions
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons (Op. 12) (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Processional Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Missa O sacrum convivium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Beatus vir qui timet Dominum II (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Motet at the Communion: O sacrum convivium (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Hymn at the Procession: O Sanctissima
Antiphon at the May Crowning: Regina cæli (simple tone)
Postlude: Versets on Verbum supernum: En taille à 4, Fugue, Récit en dialogue, Récit de Basse de Trompette (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
and First Holy Communions
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Processional Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Panis angelicus (Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921)
Communion: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Motet at the Communion: I Sat Down (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 30 April 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Music for First Holy Communions
and Anticipatory Mass of the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons (Op. 12) (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Processional Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Panis angelicus (Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921)
Communion: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Motet at the Communion: I Sat Down (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Versets on Verbum supernum: En taille à 4, Fugue, Récit en dialogue, Récit de Basse de Trompette (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour le quatrième dimanche après Pâques (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Processional Hymn: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Kyrie, Gloria: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei: Missa Cantate (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558)
Gregorian Mass of the Fouth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Jubilate Deo (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli à 6 (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Fresque Alléluiatique pour le quatrième dimanche après Pâques

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: O be joyful in the Lord (William Boyce, 1711-1779)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Awake, Thou Wintry Earth (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Friday, 22 April 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Requiem Masss for Tibor Kerekes
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis à 4 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Introit: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Gradual: Requiem æternam (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Absolve Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Sequence: Dies iræ (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Morales)
Communion: Lux æterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BuxWV 198) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: In resurrectione tua (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Christus resurgens (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Postlude: Toccata & Fugue in E Major (BWV 566) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

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: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
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 (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: I Sat Down (Bairstow)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 15 April 2016, 3:00 p.m.
Music for the Nuptial Mass of Victoria McCaffrey & Emmett Ackerlund
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
At the Procession: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
At the Bridal Procession: Prince of Denmark's March (Jeremiah Clarke, c.1674-1707)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Offertory: Surge propera amica mea (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: O sacrum convivium (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian Motet: Ave Maria (Robert Parsons, c.1530-1572)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Bach)

Sunday, 10 April 2016, 11:00 a.m.
St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Music for the Third Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Andante in F (K. 616) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Introit: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Procession: The Strife Is O'er (Victory)
Missa Brevis in D Major (K. 194) (Mozart)
Alleluia: Cognoverunt discipuli (plainsong, mode iii)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Credo III
Offertory: Lauda anima mea (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339) (Mozart)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (St. Fulbert)
Communion: Simon Joannis (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Christ the Lord is Risen Again (Llanfair)
Postlude: Improvisation sur les thèmes donnés de Mozart

The Choir of St. Paul's, Harvard Square
John Robinson, Director

The St. Mary's Student Schola
David Hughes, Director

Jonathan Wessler, Assistant Organist