What are you planning for Easter?
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    Share your lineups for Easter Sunday!

    Working on my own right now, will share in a day or two.
  • GavinGavin
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    Not sure on a prelude, just yet. Offertory will be Bairstow "Sing Ye to the Lord", and I've been learning the Vierne Finale from the 1st Symphony.
  • SamuelDorlaque
    Posts: 318
    Saint Edward, Newark CA Easter Day 10:00 AM Missa Cantata (OF) Choir & Chamber Ens.
    Prelude: Prelude to the "Te Deum" ... M.A. Charpentier
    Procession: "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" ... Setting by John Ferguson
    Introit: Resurrexi ... Graduale Romanum
    Kyrie & Gloria: "Missa Sancti Gabrielis" ... Michael Haydn
    Psalm Setting by Rev. Jeffrey Keyes, CPPS
    Alleluia & Sequence ... Graduale
    Vidi Aquam ... Joseph Gruber
    Offertorium: "Terra tremuit" ... Graduale
    Motet: "Awake, Thou Wintry Earth" ... from Cantata 129 of J.S. Bach
    Sanctus: Mass I "Lux et Origo"
    Agnus Dei: "Missa Sancti Gabrielis" ... Michael Haydn
    Communion Procession: "Pascha nostrum" ... Graduale
    Retiring Procession: "Regina Caeli laetare" ... Antonio Lotti
    "TE DEUM: In te speravi" ... M.A. Charpentier
    Thanked by 1miacoyne
  • YellowRoseofTexasYellowRoseofTexas
    Posts: 91
    ICEL Adaptation Mass.

    Easter Vigil
    Psalms from OCP
    Alleluia: Graduale Romanum tri-fold Alleluia (in modern notation)
    Sprinkling rite: Vidi Aquam - Ravanello
    Offertory: The Strife is O’er – Gr. 610
    Communion: Palestrina Sicut Cervus
    Motyka Communion Antiphon and verses
    Recessional: Concertato on Sing With All the Saints in Glory
    Postlude: Willan Alleluia Sing to Jesus

    Easter Day
    Prelude: Willan Alleluia Sing to Jesus
    Entrance: Jesus Christ is Risen Today – Vat. 249
    Sprinkling rite: Ravanello Vidi Aquam
    Sequence: Weber English setting
    Alleluia: Graduale Romanum (same as last night)
    Offertory: The Strife is O’er – Gr. 610
    Communion: Palestrina Sicut Cervus
    Same antiphon and verses as last night
    Recessional: Concertato on Sing With All the Saints in Glory
    Postlude: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, arr. Colin Hand
  • mahrt
    Posts: 517
    We will sing Palestrina's Missa Laudate Dominum for double choir, all five movements, with Gallus, Alleluia, In resurrrectione tua (also double choir), together with the Gregorian propers for the day. The congregation will join in singing the Victimae Paschali Laudes.
    Thanked by 2Jeffrey Quick Ragueneau
  • CGM
    Posts: 695
    Dr. Mahrt - The congregation will actually sing the sequence with the choir? That's astounding. For how many years have you been having the congregation do that? Do you provide it in neumes or standard notation?
  • Jeffrey MorseJeffrey Morse
    Posts: 203
    At St Stephen's the First Martyr, Sacramento, California- The choir & chorister are singing the Widor Mass (op 36) for the ordinary, Surgens Jesus (Peter Phillips), Dum Transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner), the proper chants from the Graduale.
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    -Missa de Angelis ordinary
    -SEP propers

    Still trying to decide what organ pieces and/or hymns I'll play to cover additional time. I might intersperse some organ improvisations on the propers, esp. @ Communion. I may also use Boellman's Priere a Notre Dame if I can get it back up-to-par by Easter. Haven't played it for awhile.

    We'll end with the ever-favorite "Jesus Christ is Risen Today."
    Thanked by 1Charles in CenCA
  • PaixGioiaAmorPaixGioiaAmor
    Posts: 1,473
    My Hope Is Arisen by Peter Latona, Gloria and Agnus Dei from Haydn's Missa Brevis in B Flat Major, Vidi Aquam by Ian Quian (Published by GIA), Maria Magdalene by Gabrieli.
    Thanked by 1Jeffrey Quick
  • redsox1
    Posts: 217
    Here's some of what we're doing:
    Haec est Dies-Handl (with brass)
    Easter Hymn-arr. Ferguson
    Sequence (chant)-arr. Biery w/organ interludes in the style of Cochereau
    Rite of Sprinkling: I Saw Water-Nestor
    Regina Coeli-Aichinger
    Hallelujah from Messiah-Handel (with brass and timpani)
    Sing with All the Saints in Glory-arr. Ferguson
    Toccata from Symphonie V-Widor
  • MariRMariR
    Posts: 1
    Choral selections at St Bart's Episcopal Church, St Pete, include Harris' Most Glorious Lord of Life, and Palestrina Sicut Cervus.
  • JacobFlahertyJacobFlaherty
    Posts: 330
    I love this piece, written by Gounod and arranged by Bruce Larsen of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is a choral and orchestral arrangement of 'I Arose' (the Easter Sunday Introit).
    120 _01 I Arose.mp3
    4M
  • eastmsgr
    Posts: 6
    The Ambrosian Choristers and Orchestra will present the "Messe Solennelle in A major," op 12 by Cesar Franck for the High Mass on Orthodox Easter Day (April 15) at St. Augustine Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Denver.
    The Schola Cantorum will sing the Gregorian Propers of the "Resurrexi" Mass with Pietro Yon's "Victimae Paschali Laudes". Olivier Messiaen's "O sacrum convivium" in a new arrangement for choir, organ, strings and harp. Franck's "Psalm 150" will be the choral recessional. The Prelude Music will be the solo Biblical cantata, "The Way to Emmaus" by Jaromir Weinberger. Richard Robertson will be conducing the choir and orchestra with Frank Slechta as organist.
  • Nick BotkinsNick Botkins
    Posts: 31
    Easter Sunday
    Saint Francis de Sales Oratory
    Saint Louis, MO
    Solemn High Mass 10:00am

    The Oratory Choirs and Orchestra of Saint Francis de Sales
    Nick Botkins, Director of Sacred Music/Master of the Choirs

    Vidi Aquam – mode VIII
    Gregorian Propers (Gregorian Mass Resurrexi)
    Mass in D minor “Lord Nelson” Hob.XX:11 Joseph Haydn
    Dum Transisset Sabbatum - John Taverner
    O Sacrum Convivium á 4 – Kevin Allen

    French Soprano Nathalie Colas joins the Oratory Choirs and Orchestra in Haydn’s Mass in D Minor (Lord Nelson). Colas was hailed for her outstanding interpretation as Despina with the Theater Biel Solothurn, Switzerland. An alumna of Depaul University School of Music and The Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Nathalie was heard on the Operatic stage as Roggiero in Tancredi, Julia in Romeo und Julia by Boris Blacher, Serpina in Anfossi’s Il Curioso Indiscreto, first Witch in Dido and Aeneas, Rosina in Paisiello’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, as well as Alceste in Myslivecek’s Antigona. Ms. Colas studied Lieder interpretation with great masters such as Udo Reinemann, Edith Wiens or Mitsuko Shirai. She regularly performs Lieder Abend throughout Western Europe with her musical partner Ludovic Van Hellemont. She is also in demand as a concert soloist, and sang Bach’s Trauerode in Belgium, F.X. Richter’s Mass in C, Gounod’s Messe Solennelle, the Dvorak Requiem, and Schubert Mass in B in Switzerland.
  • WittManWilsonWittManWilson
    Posts: 76
    @JIF: Regarding the Gounod "I Arose," is there somewhere I can go to get the sheet music to this? I've looked everywhere. It is a wonderful piece.
  • CGM
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    ❖ Easter Vigil
    English responsories following the seven readings: Mueller [SATB]
    Gloria: Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Alleluia: Triple Alleluia
    At the sprinkling: Vidi aquam, Lambeth choirbook [SATTB]
    Offertory antiphon: Dextera Domini
    Offertory motet: In resurrectione tua, Byrd [SATBarB]
    Sanctus: Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Mysterium fidei: “Mortem tuam” in Latin
    Agnus Dei: Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Communion antiphon: Threefold Alleluia, with verses from Psalm 34
    Communion motet: Dum transisset, Taverner [SATBarB]
    Marian antiphon: Regina cœli

    ❖ Easter Sunday
    Introit Motet: Resurrexi, Isaac [SATB]
    Kyrie: Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Gloria: Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Gradual (after the First Reading): Hæc dies
    Alleluia (after the Second Reading): Pascha nostrum
    Sequence:  Victimæ paschali laudes, Mueller [SMATBarB]
    At the sprinkling: Vidi aquam, Lambeth choirbook [SATTB]
    Offertory antiphon: Terra tremuit
    Offertory motet: Alleluia! Ego dormivi, Lupi [SSATB]
    Sanctus:  Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Mysterium fidei: “Mortem tuam” in Latin
    Agnus Dei:  Missa brevis in B-flat, Haydn [SATB+organ]
    Communion antiphon: Pascha nostrum
    Communion motet: Hæc dies, Byrd [SSATTB]
    Marian antiphon: Regina cœli
  • mahrt
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    CGM: our congregation is used to singing the Ordinary in chant notation, so we give them the Victimae paschale laudes in that notation. They seem to sing it pretty well. I believe we began to do this in 2005, but at least some members of the congregation had heard this same sequence sung by the choir for years.

    It has been my experience that when a congregation has heard a chant for some time, they have little problem in singing it. I observed this with the Pater noster when the new rite was first introduced. Before 1969, the priest alone sang the Lord's Prayer, and so, of course, the congregation heard it regularly; with the introduction of the new rite, the whole congregation sang it. From the very beginning, they sang it with confidence. On the other hand, it took them some time to master the Eucharistic acclamation, which they had not heard before.
    Thanked by 3CGM Ragueneau PolskaPiano
  • PurpleSquirrelPurpleSquirrel
    Posts: 165
    Well, I'm just going to say it how it is:

    Vigil- (Sunday Choir)
    All seven Psalms are still sung from the CBW III (Canadian)
    Mass Setting A - Geoffrey S. Angeles
    Gosp. Acc: Celtic Alleluia (I think I just felt a communal shudder...)
    Litany of Saints: the new one.... with a few Canadian Saints thrown in for good measure.
    Sprinkle: Come to the Water (Another wave of shudders...)
    Prep. of Gifts: There is One Lord - Balhoff, Ducote, and Daigle
    Comm: Now the Green Blade Rises - (NOEL NOUVELET, John Crum)
    Rec: Jesus Christ is Ris'n Today

    Easter Morning - (Saturday Choir. AKA "Ukelele Fury")
    Whatever they can throw together in the half hour before Mass that all 7 guitars can play.

    As you can see, we have a ways to go...

    Thanked by 1expeditus1
  • Simon
    Posts: 155
    Missa - still to be determined - maybe Heinrich Isaac's Missa Solemnis.
    Calvi: Victimae Paschali
    Merulo: Regina Caeli
    Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum
  • Jeffrey Quick
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    It's nice to have a choir that can deal with "TBA" on Tuesday of Holy Week. Having a strong repertoire is a good thing.
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,698
    Purple Squirrel... I haven't worked in Canada in 5 years but I still can sing the refrain from the Third Psalm (Canticle) from memory. Not exactly a Gregorian gradual, but that's one catchy little ditty.
    Thanked by 2PurpleSquirrel canadash
  • PurpleSquirrelPurpleSquirrel
    Posts: 165
    matthewj.... Yes, the Tambo-Psalm! Catchy indeed. But I think CBW has some catching up to do regarding those Psalms.
  • Charles in CenCA
    Posts: 2,416
    From Central California, Triduum to Sunday
    The blessings of Paschaltide to all!
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  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,501
    Missa d'Angelis for all Mass parts.
    Processional (Sunday): Jesus Christ is Ris'n Today
    Proper: Resurrexi - Gregorian
    Offertory: Dextera Domini - Franck
    Communion: O filii et filiæ (English)
    Proper: SEP
    Recessional: Halleluia Chorus: Handel
    Postlude: Widor Toccata
  • SkirpRSkirpR
    Posts: 854
    Easter Vigil

    Responsorial Psalms - unaccompanied from various sources with psalmtone verses
    Gloria - Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni - Michael Haydn (w/ orch)
    Alleluia - Graduale Romanum
    Sprinkling - Sicut Cervus - Palestrina
    Offertory - Dextera Domini - Ferenc Kersch
    Sanctus/Benedictus - Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni (w/ orch)
    Agnus Dei - Missa de Angelis
    Communion 1 - Pascha Nostrum - Graduale Romanum
    Communion 2 - Alleluia - Romuald Twardowski
    Recessional - Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (w/ orch)
    Postlude - "Hallelujah" from Messiah (w/ orch)
  • gregpgregp
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    Introit - Resurrexi, Graduale Romanum
    Kyrie, Byrd Mass for 3 voices
    Gloria, Mass I
    Gradual and Alleluia - Rossini (time constraints)
    Sequence
    Credo IV
    Offertory - Terra Tremuit, GR
    Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei - Byrd Mass for 3 voices
    Communion - Pascha Nostrum, GR
    Recessional - Regina Caeli
  • Joseph Michael
    Posts: 257
    Easter Vigil:

    Exultet sung by the pastor
    Sadly, we do only three OT readings.
    After Genesis I: Psalm 104, Marier setting
    After Exodus: Canticle of Moses Marier setting (This piece is CRAZY. But such drama! After singing this setting, I think that I've crossed the Red Sea.)
    After Isaiah 55: Canticle of Isaiah Setting by Mason Martens

    Glory to God: Mass in Honor of John Henry Newman by James MacMillan
    Gospel: Triple alleluia, Vigil chant setting

    Litany of the Saints: Marier setting with adaptations to the new Missal

    Springs of Water: Proulx

    Offertory: This is the Feast of Victory - Hillert

    Sanctus etc.... David Hurd New Plainchant Mass with adaptation to the new Missal
    Mystery of Faith: setting by M. Olbash

    Pascha Nostra - Healey Willan
    This Joyful Eastertide - setting by Alice Parker
    Mary, Queen of Heaven (chant)

    Jesus Christ Is Risen Today Setting by David Willcocks.
    Thanked by 1PurpleSquirrel
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    I'm just going to link to our website since I'm already getting in a torpor with all this administrative stuff! All music is in the "documents" tab in the left column of this page: http://www.stgabrielstl.org/LiturgyMusic/MusicMinistry.aspx
  • jpal
    Posts: 365
    Easter Vigil
    Four readings, so we will sing 2 Chabanel psalms (as they appear in the Vatican II Hymnal), the GR Cantemus, and an original SSS Sicut cervus.
    Ordinary: Short Mass in C by Richard Terry (w/ organ and strings)
    Triple Alleluia from GR
    ICEL Litany
    "I Saw Water," from the Vatican II Hymnal p. 99
    At The Lamb's High Feast We Sing
    GR Pascha nostrum
    Ye Sons & Daughters
    This Joyful Eastertide (choir, in G)
    Regina Caeli
    Jesus Christ is Risen Today (arr. for chorus/strings/organ)
    Thanked by 1Ragueneau
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,405
    What am I planning?...
    For Easter I, and all of you (I hope) are planning to cross through the Red Sea waters on 'un-moistened foot'. Now: kudos to the one who can first pin-point the reference here to a well-known Easter hymn. (Hint: if you don't already know, it's in The Hymnal 1940.) (Hint 2 - if needed: the hymn is by St John Damascene.) What is the hymn?
    Thanked by 1PurpleSquirrel
  • GavinGavin
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    "Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain", which my parish is singing tonight. To the Arthur Sullivan tune; though I prefer the alternate tune myself.
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    I'm partial to the text, "Through the Red Sea brought at last" from the 1982, but that probably wouldn't fly in a Catholic context outside of an AU parish!
    Thanked by 1Gavin
  • tomboysuzetomboysuze
    Posts: 289
    Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain

    Come ye faithful raise the strain of triumphant gladness!
    God has brought Is-ra-el into joy from sadness,
    loosed from Pharoah’s bitter yoke Jacob’s sons and daughters
    led them with unmoistened foot through the Red Sea waters.
  • tomboysuzetomboysuze
    Posts: 289
    Easter....etc.
    Prelude Music: Come Thou Fount - acappella
    (a rip-off of the Mack Wilburg harmonization done ssaa)
    I Will Arise and Go to Jesus - another rip-off of Leo Nestor's gorgeous setting of this SATB American Folk Hymn (I feel somewhat justified, as I've begged him to do an SSAA setting and he just won't.)
    Introit - SEP
    Entrance: Jesus Christ is Risen Today - SATB setting done by someone....nice setting, but I've modified it.
    Kyrie: Orbis Factor
    Gloria; Missa de Angelis
    Psalm: From watershed
    Victimae Paschale: In English from the wonderful 1940 Hymnal
    Easter Alleluia: Simple chant w/verse
    Proper for Offertory: SEP
    Offertory Hymn: Jesus Lives (from the German tune)
    Communio: SEP
    Communion: Ye Sons and Daughters
    Post Communion: Sicut Cervus
    Easter Dismissal
    Recessional: O God Beyond All Praising (Holst)
    Thanked by 1PurpleSquirrel
  • lupusgrex
    Posts: 6
    Easter Vigil:
    As Assembly goes to the New Fire - Holy Darkness - Schutte
    Procession - Latin/Eng/Spn
    Exsulet - Eng/Spn
    Sung "The Word of the Lord" after all readings
    All 7 Psalms using the St. Meinrad Chants in various modes (odd numbered Psalms in English, even numbered Psalms in Spanish) Ps verses from The New Grail Psalter
    Gloria al Señor - Misa Popular
    Introduction to the Great Alleluia - St Meinrad
    Psalm 118 using Festival Alleluia - Chepponis, chant tone for Ps 118
    Sprinkling - based on Festival Liturgy - Hilert using text of Vidi Aquam (Latin)/Vi el Ague Fluir (Spanish) also English if needed
    Relighting Assembly Candles for Renewal & Confirmation - By Name I Have Called You - Landry/Whitaker
    Offertory - Resucitó (bililngual)
    Eucharistic Acc - A Community Mass (Proulx)
    Communion Antiphon - Festival Alleluia with verse
    Communion - O Sons and Daughters (bilingual)
    Post Communion - Regina Coelli - Reimann
    Postlude - Jesus Christ Is Risen Today/El Señor Resucitó








  • lupusgrex
    Posts: 6
    What is SEP?
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,189
    Simple English Propers.
  • marajoymarajoy
    Posts: 781
    lupus
    you might appreciate this list of abbreviations here
  • lupusgrex
    Posts: 6
    thanks much! what a time saver.
  • Caleferink
    Posts: 432
    Easter Vigil
    Lucernarium: ICEL chant
    Exsultet: ICEL chant
    Psalms: OCP English & Spanish (Spanish psalm vss. reset to psalm tones)
    Gloria: "Joyful Gloria" (Keil)
    Alleluia: "O filii et filiae" refrain thrice, ascending each time, then Psalm 118 (Meinrad tone)
    Litany of the Saints: ICEL chant
    Blessing of Baptismal Water: ICEL chant
    Acclamation after Each Baptism: "O filii et filiae" refrain
    Sprinkling Rite: "I Saw Water Flowing" (DeBruyn)
    Confirmation: "Veni Creator Spiritus"
    Offertory: "This Is the Day" (Leisring/Hopson)
    Sanctus/Mysterium/Amen/Agnus: Mass of the Angels & Saints (Janco)
    Communion: Motyka antiphon/Psalm 118 & "I Received the Living God"
    Recessional: "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" (arr. Lovelace)
    Postlude: "Litanies" (Alain)

    Easter Sunday, OF
    Prelude: TBD
    Entrance: "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" (arr. Lovelace)
    Kyrie: ICEL chant
    Gloria: "Joyful Gloria" (Keil)
    Responsorial Psalm: OCP setting
    Sequence: English chant
    Alleluia: "O filii et filiae" / "Pascha nostrum"
    Sprinkling Rite: "I Saw Water Flowing" (DeBruyn)
    Offertory: "This Is the Day" (Leisring/Hopson) at Mass w/ adult choir, "Jubilate Deo" (Praetorius) at Mass w/ children's choir, "The Strife Is O'er" (Palestrina) at Masses w/o choir
    Sanctus/Mysterium/Amen/Agnus: Mass of the Angels & Saints (Janco)
    Communion: Motyka antiphon/Psalm 118 & "I Received the Living God"
    Recessional/Postlude: "Litanies" (Alain)

    Easter Sunday, EF: TBD
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