Immaculate Conception Music 2020
  • Casavant Organist
    Posts: 805
    With the first choir I've done in quite some time, we had a beautiful Mass this evening for Our Lady's feast.

    Introit Gaudens Gaudebo (Mode III)
    Gloria from Missa Secunda - Hassler
    RP from New Cathedral Gradual - Cichocki/Ku
    Alleluia - Full Gregorian (I've been doing full gregorian Alleluias throughout Advent - they're my favourite propers)
    Offertory - Ave Maria - Handl
    Sanctus - Mass IX (which was actually a little mistake on my part - I thought I'd put in XVII which my people knew, but they sight read IX very easily)
    Agnus - Mass XVII
    Communion - There is no Rose - Joubert
    Rorate Coeli (English)
    Immaculate Mary (with the loudest congregational singing I've ever heard)

    Deo gratias!
    Thanked by 3M. Jackson Osborn rich_enough CHGiffen
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,415
    Live streamed solemn high mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham
    may be viewed at
    olwcatholic.org.

    First use of our new Mary Blue solemn set of vestments.

    Complete Palmer-Burgess propers
    Psalm - Anglican chant (Goss)
    Cum jubilo mass (in English), as in the back of The Hymnal 1940.
    Motet at the Offertory - Alma redemptoris mater, Palestrina (?)
    Motet at the Communion - 'Adam lay y-bounden' - Ord
    Hymn at the dismissal - 'Immaculate Mary' - Lourdes Hymn
    (Too bad the lectionary and creed were not sung, perhaps because of the virus from China.)
    Thanked by 3Casavant Organist CHGiffen Jehan_Boutte
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,890
    We had to make rather humble music since we are currently only a tiny schola who couldn't have a dedicated rehearsal for the solemnity, but I did record this in honor of Our Lady.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edKVQwmjWcs&t=1s

    We sang Weber propers, the plainchant Ave Maria, and Immaculate Mary (Lourdes Hymn) after the communion antiphon.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • Chrism
    Posts: 872
    Opening Hymn "Hail Mary, Only Sinless Child" (Caddell/EISENACH)
    Propers from the Liber usualis
    Missa IX cum Jubilo
    Credo III
    Offertory chant "Dies iste celebratur" from Cantus varii
    Communion chant "Immaculatam" from Cantus selecti
    Marian Antiphon "Alma Redemptoris Mater" (solemn tone)
    Final Hymn "O Purest of Creatures" (Faber/PADERBORN)
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • Caleferink
    Posts: 434
    Since I'm still not allowed to have any sort of (vocal) choir/ensemble, it was a solo cantor and me as organist as it has been on Sundays since reopening on Pentecost.

    Introit: Gaudens gaudebo - Simple English Propers
    Kyrie: XVI
    Gloria: Congregational Mass (Lee)
    Psalm 98: Batastini/Gelineau
    Alleluia: VI + plainchant Ave Maria up to "mulieribus" for the verse
    Credo: III
    Offertory: Ave Maria (Schubert)
    Sanctus: ICEL chant
    Mystery of Faith: ICEL chant
    Amen: Danish
    Agnus Dei: XVIII
    Communion: Gloriosa dicta sunt - Simple English Propers + "Magnificat" (Chepponis)
    Recessional: "Immaculate Mary" - since there are no books in the pews, the cantor sang the stanzas by him-/herself while the congregation joined in the refrain.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,086
    Solo me with organ, first time singing in a mask as the boss has cracked down.
    Mass IX, Credo I, Gregorian propers (psalm toned verses on Gradual and Alleluia)
    Offertory motet: Ave maris stella (L. Perosi)
    Communion: Tota pulchra es (E. Gigout), Tota pulchra es (Perosi)
  • Jehan_Boutte
    Posts: 264
    M. Jackson Osborn,

    I have watched some Masses at OLW Cathedral, including that of the Immaculate Conception. Is the use of Blue vestments something customary in the Ordinariate for the feasts of Our Lady?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,415
    Blue has a very old pedigree in the Anglican sphere. It was prominent in the Sarum use where it sometimes was an alternative to purple - though another alternative to purple was the 'Lenten array', the altar vestments which were entirely of unbleached linen). The use of blue has been associated with Marian feasts for quite a long historical time, blue being thought of as a particularly Marian colour, hence our Lady in much art being clothed in blue. I don't, though, think that blue as a liturgical colour had much usage outside of England.
    Thanked by 2Jehan_Boutte CHGiffen
  • Jehan_Boutte
    Posts: 264
    Thank you for this answer. I think blue was used also in Spain and in some French Uses, including that of Paris.
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,890
    This recent article in the liturgical arts journal speaks of the historical provenance of blue vestments: https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2020/12/a-fifteenth-century-solemn-mass-set.html

    Edit- and funnily enough, a second article touching on blue vestments: https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2020/12/some-cerulean-blue-vestments-from-italy.html
    Thanked by 2Jehan_Boutte CHGiffen
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