Music for the Sunday before the Epiphany, 2 January 2011

Music for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223) (Buxtehude)
Missa sine nomine (Palestrina)
Gregorian Mass of the Most Holy Name of Jesus: In nomine Jesu
Motet at the Offertory: O Jesu, nomen dulce (Heinrich Schutz, 1585-1672)
Motet at the Communion: Magnum nomen Domini (Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621)
Postlude: Christum wir sollen loben schon (BWV 611) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Hymn at the Procession: The First Noël
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Morning Star; James P. Harding, 1850-1911)
Communion: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: The Blessed Son of God (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

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