Category Archives: Music

Music for the Feast of St. Mary, Mother of God
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Post partum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Carol)
Communion: Exsulta filia Sion (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Angels We Have Heard On High (Gloria)
Postlude: Improvisation on the Ave maris stella

Music for the Feast of the Circumcision & Octave Day of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour la Circoncision (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Praeter rerum seriem (Cipriano de Rore, 1515-1565)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: Praeter rerum seriem (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Virtus Sancti Spiritus (Praeter rerum seriem, secunda pars) (Josquin)
Postlude: Fantaisie et Choral pour la Circoncision (Tournemire)

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BWV 739) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: Dum medium silentium
Motet at the Offertory: Mirabile mysterium (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Motet at the Communion: Noe, noe psallite (Jean Mouton, c.1459-1522)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 608) (Bach)

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Once in Royal David’s City (Irby)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Gaudete justi (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: In te speravi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (Wie schön leuchtet)
Communion: Fili, quid fecisti (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: In the Bleak Midwinter (Cranham; arr. Holst)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo)
Organ music as above

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (BWV 700) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Dies sanctificatus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Day: Puer natus est
Gradual: Viderunt omnes (Pérotin, fl. c. 1200)
Motet at the Offertory: Puer natus est (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Viderunt omnes (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: Dies sanctificatus (Palestrina)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Bach)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 1 (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

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Music for the Mass of Christmas Day
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. David Willcocks)
Introit: Puer natus est (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Tui sunt caeli (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Laetabundus [The Christmas Sequence] (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Offertory: Joy to the World (Antioch)
Communion: Viderunt omnes (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Unto Us Is Born A Son (arr. Willcocks)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks)
Organ music as above

The St. Mary’s Choir

The recitation of the Rosary begins at 11:00 p.m.

Carols & organ music begin at 11:30 p.m.
Prelude: Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Hymn: Once In Royal David’s City (Irby)
Carol: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Carol)
Hymn: Joys Seven (arr. Hughes)
Carol: Il est né, le Divin Enfant (arr. Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
Hymn: Riu riu chiu (Mateo Flecha el Viejo, 1481-1553)
Carol: Tu scendi dalle stelle (St. Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori, 1696-1787)
Motet: There Is No Rose (anon. English, XV C.)
Carol: Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Prelude: Desseins éternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
The Solemn Proclamation of Christmas
Hymn at the Procession: Adeste Fideles (John Francis Wade, arr. Willcocks)

Music for the Midnight Mass of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 12:00 a.m.)
Messe solennelle (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Midnight: Dominus dixit
Motet at the Offertory: Quaeramus cum pastoribus (Jean Mouton, c.1459-1522)
Motet at the Communion: Ubi pascas (Quaeramus, secunda pars) (Mouton)
Motet at the Communion: O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Choir
The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Wednesday, 24 December 2014, 4:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil Mass of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Chanticleer’s Carol (Vernon Hoyle, b.1948)
Prelude: Adeste Fideles (from Cathedral Windows) (Op. 106, No. 4) (Sigfrid Karg-Elert, 1877-1933)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. David Willcocks)
Introit: Hodie scietis (plainsong, mode vi)
Mass of the Sacred Heart (Richard Rice, b.1962)
Offertory: Tollite portas (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Joy to the World (Antioch)
Motet at the Offertory: Hodie apparuit (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Communion: Revelabitur (plainsong, mode i)
Carol at the Communion: Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord, 1897-1961)
Carol at the Communion: Of One That Is So Fair and Bright (David J. Hughes, b.1980)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the procession: Veni, veni, Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i)
Missa O Virgo simul et Mater (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Advent: Rorate caeli
Motet at the Offertory: Ecce Virgo concipiet (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Factor orbis (Jacob Obrecht, c.1458-1505)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Veni, Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Hymn at the Offertory: Saviour of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Rorate caeli (plainsong, mode iv)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Introit: Gaudete (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola] Kyrie: Missa sine nomine à 6 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gradual: Qui sedes, Domine (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola] Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv) [Student Schola] Offertory: Benedixisti (plainsong, mode iv) [Student Schola] Motet at the Offertory: Gaudete in Domino (Giaches de Wert, 1535-1596)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass for Four Voices (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585) [Student Schola] Agnus Dei: Mass for Four Voices (Tallis) [Student Schola] Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola] Motet at the Communion: Beatus Joannes (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Postlude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 660) (Bach)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
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Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, Divine Messiah (Venez, Divin Messie)
Introit: Gaudete (plainsong, mode i)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Benedixisti (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of St. Lucy
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Missale Romanum of 1962
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of St. Lucy: Dilexisti
Hymn at the Communion: Jesu corona Virginum (plainsong, mode viii)

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

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
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: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella (Langlais)
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: Fantasie-Improvisation sur l’Ave maris stella (Tournemire)