Category Archives: Music

Requiem Mass for Rose Jeffery
Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 10:00 a.m.
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Introit: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode vi)
Alleluia: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)
Communion: Lux aeterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Hymn at the Absolution: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession to the cemetery: Credo quod Redemptor (plainsong, mode viii)

The St. Mary’s Choir

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)
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Veni Redemptor gentium (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
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: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni Emmanuel)
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, 27 November 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Music for a Votive Mass of the Most Holy Trinity
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Most Holy Trinity: Benedicta sit
Motet at the Offertory: Duo seraphim clamabant (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: Tres sunt (Duo seraphim, secunda pars) (Victoria)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Te Deum (Pierre Attaignant, c.1494-1552)

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa La sol fa re mi (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis [Ps. 130, prima pars] (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina [Ps. 130, secunda pars] (Lasso)
Postlude: Apparition de l’Eglise éternelle (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
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)
Postlude: Litanies (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)

Saturday, 22 November 2014, 4:00 p.m.
The Cathedral Parish, St. Patrick’s, Bridgeport
Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Præludium in F-sharp minor (BuxWV 146) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Kyrie Pater cuncta (Mass XII)
Gradual: Dominabitur (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong, with organum)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass for Four Voices (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Agnus Dei: Mass for Four Voices (Tallis)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Acclamations Carolingiennes [Christus vincit] (from Suite médiévale) (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Saturday, 22 November 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Cecilia: Loquebar
Improvisation at the Offertory
Improvisation at the Communion
Postlude: Improvisation

Thursday, 20 November 2014, 3:00 p.m.
Music for None of Thursday
Hymn: Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon: Invocabimus nomen tuum, with Psalms 74 and 75 (plainsong, mode vi)
Commemoration of St. Felix of Valois
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)

The office of None is sung by the students of Regina Pacis Academy.

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa L’homme armé (Marbrianus de Orto, c.1460-1529)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Improvisation

We welcome Charles Weaver as the guest director
and Michael La Barre as the guest organist for this Mass.

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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)
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: Domine, quinque talenta (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Godhead Here In Hiding (Adoro te devote)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)

We welcome William V. Riccio, Jr., as the guest director & organist for this Mass.

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 12:10 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Præludium in C Major (BuxWV 136) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Kyrie Orbis factor (Mass XI)
Hymn at the Offertory: Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicaea)
Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Deus Genitor alme (Mass XVIII)
Communion: Venite ad me (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

Mass is sung approximately once per month by the students of Regina Pacis Academy.

Music for the Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Saviour
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Urbs Jerusalem (Jean Titelouze, c.1562-1633)
Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Dedication of a Church: Terribilis est locus iste
Motet at the Offertory: Urbs beata Jerusalem (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Nisi Dominus aedificaverit (Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612)
Postlude: Concerto del Sig.r Meck appropriato all’Organo [in B minor] (Johann Gottfried Walther, 1684-1748)

Music for the Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Saviour
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Introit: Deus in loco sancto suo (plainsong, mode v)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Bene fundata est (plainsong, mode v)
Offertory: Domine Deus, in simplicitate (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Offertory: Blessed City, Heavenly Salem (Sarum plainsong, mode i)
Communion: Jerusalem quae aedificatur (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: O How Amiable (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above