Category Archives: Music

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Saluto Angelico (from Vitraux Polychromes d’Anciennes Cathédrales) (Sigfrid Karg-Elert, 1877-1933)
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes Hymn)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Communion: Gloriosa (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude à l’Introït pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Conception: Gaudens gaudebo
Motet at the Offertory: Ave cujus conceptio (Nicholas Ludford, 1485-1557)
Motet at the Communion: Ave vera virginitas (Ave cujus conceptio, secund pars) (Ludford)
Postlude: Pièce términal pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)

Sunday, 6 December 2015, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Second Sunday of Advent
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Ecce in nubibus & Psalm 109 (mode i)
Urbs fortitudinis & Psalm 110 (mode vii)
Ecce apparebit Dominus & Psalm 111 (mode vii)
Montes et colles & Psalm 112 (mode i)
Ecce Dominus noster & Psalm 113 (mode iii)
Hymn: Creator alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv)
Magnificat antiphon: Tu es qui venturus es (mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode v)

The sermon will be preached by Fr. Brian Gannon.

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Kyrie: Missa In te Domine speravi (Giovanni Francesco Anerio, 1567-1630)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Motet at the Offertory: Cum audisset Joannes (Manuel Cardoso, 1566-1650)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Missa In te Domine speravi (Anerio)
Agnus Dei: Missa In te Domine speravi (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem, 1410-1497)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Introit: Populus Sion (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus tu convertens (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hark, A Herald Voice is Sounding (Merton)
Communion: Jerusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Stuttgart)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Domine præstolamur (prima pars) (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Domine præstolamur, secunda pars) (Byrd)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni Emmanuel)
Introit: Ad te levavi (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Ad te Domine levavi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Savior of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Thursday, 26 November 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Sylvester, Abbot
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: We Gather Together (Kremser)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of an Abbot: Os justi
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (attrib. Victoria)
Hymn at the Communion: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Hymne d’action de grâces “Te Deum” (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 687) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Coe fen) (descant by David Hughes)
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553) [Student Schola] Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola] Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii) [Student Schola] Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (plainsong, mode i; versets by Victoria) [Student Schola] Communion: Amen dico vobis: quidquid (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola] Motet at the Communion: Laudem dicite Deo (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558) [Student Schola] Postlude: Prelude & Fugue in E-flat Major (Op. 99, No. 3) (Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921)

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 Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Diademata)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong, with organum)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: The Royal Banners Forward Go (Agincourt Hymn)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
(Lections of the Sixth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Cantilène (from Suite Brève) (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Missa Gaudeamus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis [Ps. 129, prima pars] (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina [Ps. 129, secunda pars] (Lasso)
Postlude: Con moto maestoso from Organ Sonata No. 3 in A Major (Op. 65, No. 3) (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Introit: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito (plainsong, mode vi)
Kyrie, Sanctus: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Out of the Depths, to You, O Lord, We Cry (Alberta)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quidquid (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Elgar)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 14 November 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Josaphat
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Gregorian Mass of St. Josaphat: Gaudeamus
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Motet at the Offertory: Deus tuorum militum (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.