St. Mary’s Youth Schola

SPRING 2024

PALM SUNDAY
Sunday, March 24, 2024
10:00 a.m. Liturgy
("Dry Mass" of the Palms – Procession – Mass of the Passion; about 3 hours total)

Repertoire:

Antiphon: Hosanna filio David (view PDF)
Sanctus (Mass XVIII) (view PDF)
Pueri hebraeorum (Tomás Luís de Victoria) (view PDF: full score)
Hymn at the Procession: Gloria, laus et honor (view PDF)

Practice Videos:

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THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
Sunday, March 3, 2024
10:00 a.m. Mass

Repertoire:

Ad te levavi oculos meos (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) (first part only)
(view PDF: top line only) (view PDF: full score)
Communion chant: Passer invenit (view PDF)
Ave regina caelorum (solemn tone) (view PDF)

Practice/Listening Playlist for Lent III on YouTube (or scroll down for embedded videos)

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Thursday, January 25, 2024:  First schola rehearsal of the spring semester

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FALL 2023

FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Friday, December 8, 2023
7:00 p.m. Mass

Practice/Listening Playlist for Immaculate Conception on YouTube (or scroll down for embedded videos)

Repertoire:

Kyrie (Chant Mass IX) (view PDF)
Sanctus (Matthew Walter) (view PDF)
Stella splendens (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat) (view PDF)
Tota pulchra es (chant by Dom Joseph Pothier) (view PDF)
Alma redemptoris mater (chant, simple tone) (view PDF)

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Thursday, December 7, 2023:  Last schola rehearsal of the fall semester

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Thursday, November 23, 2023:  NO schola rehearsal (Thanksgiving)

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Thursday, November 2, 2023:  NO schola rehearsal (All Souls Day)

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FEAST OF ALL SAINTS
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
7:00 p.m. Mass

Practice/Listening Playlist for All Saints on YouTube (or scroll down for embedded videos)

Repertoire:

Missa O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
Communion: Beati mundo corde
Salve Regina (chant, solemn tone)

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Thursday, September 14, 2023:  First schola rehearsal of the fall semester

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SPRING 2023

FEAST OF THE ASCENSION
Thursday, May 18, 2023
7:00 p.m. Mass

Practice/Listening Playlist for Ascension on YouTube (or scroll down for embedded videos)

Repertoire:

Alleluia: Ascendit Deus (first Alleluia)
Ascendit Deus (Ferdinand Schaller)
Communion: Psallite Domino
Regina caeli (Antonio Lotti)

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Thursday, May 11, 2023: Last schola rehearsal of the semester

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Thursday, April 20, 2023: schola resumes after Easter Break
(NO schola on Thursday, April 6 or Thursday, April 13, 2023)

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PALM SUNDAY
Sunday, April 2, 2023
10:00 a.m. Liturgy ("Dry Mass" of the Palms – Procession – Mass of the Passion; about 3 hours total)

Practice/Listening Playlist for Palm Sunday on YouTube (or scroll down for embedded videos)

Repertoire:

Antiphon: Hosanna filio David
Sanctus (Mass XVIII)
Hymn at the Procession: Gloria, laus et honor
Ingrediente Domino (George Malcolm)
Stabat Mater (Zoltan Kodály)

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LAETARE SUNDAY (Fourth Sunday of Lent)
Sunday, March 19, 2023
10:00 a.m. Mass

Practice/Listening Playlist for Laetare Sunday on YouTube (or scroll down for embedded videos)

Repertoire:

Introit: Laetare Jerusalem
Laudate Dominum (Kaspar Ett)
Credo I
Communion: Jerusalem quae aedificatur
Ave regina caelorum (Georges Guiraud)
Ave regina caelorum (chant)

Practice Videos:

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Thursday, January 26, 2023:  First schola rehearsal of the spring semester

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Fall 2022

ADVENT LESSONS & CAROLS
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Sunday, December 18, 2022
5:00 p.m.

Repertoire:
Matins Responsory: "I look from afar" (Palestrina)
"She walks amid the wood of thorn" (Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, German pilgrimage song)
People, look East (Besançon Carol)
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Hymns:
Come, thou Redeemer of the earth
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Savior of the nations, come
Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley)
At Benediction:
Alma redemptoris mater (Palestrina)

Practice/Listening Playlist on YouTube: Lessons & Carols (Fall 2022)

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Thursday, December 15, 2022:  Last schola rehearsal of the semester

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Thursday, December 8, 2022:  NO regular schola rehearsal
(Feast of the Immaculate Conception)

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SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT (older group only)
Sunday, December 4, 2022
10:00 a.m. Mass

Repertoire:
Veni Emmanuel
Credo I (see music)
Alma Redemptoris Mater, Palestrina (see music)
Communion: Jerusalem surge
Alma Redemptoris Mater, chant (see music)

Practice/Listening Playlist on YouTube: Second Sunday of Advent

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Thursday, November 24, 2022:  NO schola rehearsal (Thanksgiving)

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Thursday, November 3, 2022:  NO schola rehearsal (cancelled)

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First Mass of the Semester! (Older Group Only)
ALL SAINTS' DAY
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

7:00 p.m. Mass
(6:00 p.m. call time)

Repertoire:
Kyrie Firmator sancte, chant (see music)
Sanctus & Benedictus, Matthew Walter (see music)
Panis angelicus, César Franck (see music)

Practice Videos:

SCHOLA JUVENTUTUM
ST. MARY’S YOUTH SCHOLA
SPRING 2024 SEMESTER DATES

Thursdays from 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Sun. Mar. 3: Mass for the Third Sunday of Lent, 10:00 a.m.
Sun. Mar. 24: Palm Sunday Liturgy, 10:00 a.m.
NO schola Thurs. Mar. 28 (Maundy Thursday) or Thurs. Apr. 4 (Easter Week)
Thurs. Apr. 11: schola resumes
Thurs. May 9: Mass for the Feast of the Ascension, 7pm