I’m interested to know what you guys did this year.
We did...
Processional: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (EASTER HYMN) Psalm: This the Day (Soper) Sequence: “Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today (VICTIMAE PASCHALI) GA: Festival Alleluia (Chepponis) Prep: Alleluia! Alleluia! (ODE TO JOY) Comm: One Love Released (Kendzia) Worthy is the Lamb (Manalo) Recessional: Christ is Risen (J. Cummings)
Mass parts were from Fr. J. Chepponis’ Jubilation Mass.
I got to play viola at a heavenly OF Mass with a young traditional priest. Incense, sprinkling (not the dip-your-hand-in-holy-water-procession), chant, chanted sequence, and the usual suspects as hymns. Thanks be to God for these wonderful priests!
2 Trumpets, Timpani, Organ, Choir at the 10:30 Liturgy here... We did the following:
Prelude: Regina Coeli - Aichinger - arr. Osborne - Brass/Organ Procession: Jesus Christ is Risen Today - arr Ferguson Gloria: New Mass for Congregations - Andrews - arr Biery Ps 118 arr Wm Glenn Osborne Easter Sequence - arr Biery Gospel Acclamation: O filii et filiae - arr Page Sprinkling: I Saw Water - Leo Nestor Offertory: Christ the Lord is Risen Today - Llanfair Community Mass - Proulx Communion: Thanks to you, O Christ Victorious - https://www.morningstarmusic.com/thanks-to-you-o-christ-victorious.html Hymn: O Sons and Daughters Recessional: Alleluia Hearts to Heaven - Hymn to Joy - arr Ferguson
Entrance: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today Psalm: This Is the Day - I have thrown it out so I don't remember who composed it. Offertory: All the Earth Rejoice with A Gladsome Voice - Vivaldi Mass Ordinary: ICEL Chant Propers: Rice Communion: Sing With All The Saints In Glory - Ode to Joy Recessional: The Strife Is O'er Postlude: Dialogue (Ier Livre) Marchand
Mass: Mass VIII Prelude: Air on the G String, Bach (arr. organ) Processional: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, followed by Graduale Parvum Latin introit Gradual: Haec Dies, GR Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes, GR GA: Ye Sons and Daughters Alleluia w/ Latin verse Sprinkling Rite (renewal replaced Creed): Vidi Aquam Offertory: Terra Tremuit (Graduale Simplex) Offertory other: ST-arranged Englishized Hassler motet "This is the Day", Couperin "Et in terra Pax" from Mass for the Parishes Communion: Pascha Nostrum, GR Communion other: Palestrina "Jesu Rex Admirabilis" alternatem with chant verses, BWV 641 Recessional: The Strife Is O'er Postlude: BWV 625
Prelude: Organ improvisation on Victimae Paschali Laudes Processional: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, 2 trumpet descant for last verse. Mass setting: Frances Cabrini Psalm: This is the Day... (Guimont) Sequence: Chanted by handmaids Offertory: Rejoice, Rejoice, This Glad Easter Day (Robert Leaf, 3 trumpets!) Communion antiphon: SEP Communion: Hillert's Festival Canticle with 3 trumpets (Tpt. 3 becomes Trb. 1) Recessional: The Strife is O'er with trumpet descants Postlude: Finale from Symphony 1 (Vierne)
(Traditional Latin Mass) Processional: Christ the Lord is Risen Today Mass Ordinary: I and a family who I have been teaching chant sang Mass I's Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei together; I sang Gloria III and Credo V by myself Mass Propers: I sang full Gregorian propers myself, except the family joined me for the Sequence After Offertory chant: we sang 5 verses of Regina Caeli Jubila - with the family on melody and I singing some harmony. Recessional: Regina Caeli - simple chant version - followed directly by The Strife is O'er. I played a short postlude on the organ - it was a prelude (for keyboard) by Bach.
Mass VIII Prelude: Rhapsody (Saint-Saens) Processional: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today Psalm/Acclamation: Weber Chants from IPM Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes Sprinkling: I Saw Water (chant) Offertory: This Joyful Eastertide/Antiphon from Fr. Samuel Weber Communion: Antiphon (Weber)/Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor/At the Lamb's High Feast Recessional: Regina Caeli (chant)/Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing Postlude: Festival Prelude (I know... Peeters)/Carillon (forgot the composer)
Prelude - Easter Carol (Proulx) Entrance - Jesus Christ Is Risen Today #540 Gather Chant - Introit Easter Sunday Psalm 139 (I am risen...) Respon. Psalm - Easter Day (Proulx) Gospel - Celtic Alleluia Easter Seq. - Christ The Lord Is Risen Today - Ignatius Pew Missal #108 Sprinkling- I saw Water (Ward) Offertory - Behold the Lamb (Larson) Comm. - I am the bread of life + add'l verses Rite of Dismissal: Regina Caeli (chant) Pew Missal #8, pg.177 Recessional - Alleluia, Alleluia! Let the Holy Anthem Rise
I am not going to offer any criticism for Toolan's Folly. I choose that one for communion about twice a year just to keep peace among the factions. Same for Amazing Grace, which is neither amazing nor graceful.
My comment isn't meant as a criticism of IATBOL. I wondered what extra verses one might add, where they came from, and how they were interpolated (or integrated) with the existing text.
This is not to say that there aren't perfectly sensible criticisms to be offered of the music, the use of the text or the various editorial improvements people have made over the years.... but....
Chris Garton-Zavesky, the extra verses come from "Hear I Am Lord" by Mike Ward. Once we sing all the verses in "I am the bread of life" we jump to the verses in "Hear I Am Lord", then once you're done with a verse you jump back and sing the refrain "And I will raise you up..." and so on. According to our MD, the diocesan musician says as long as you have a hymn with the same meter you can do this.
I don't know Ward's piece. Nevertheless, Toolan's has irregular meter, so I'm hard pressed to see how any verses from absolutely anything couldn't be squeezed into that shoe.
At the Easter Vigil, our pastor thanked the choir first and mentioned the preparation time required to sing well for all the Triduum services! What a welcome change from last year!
Easter Vigil: Mass for Three Voices and some motets from the St. Gregory Hymnal.
Easter Sunday: Mass I, Lux et Origo with Panis Angelicus on organ and violin.
For the first time ever, the Vigil AND Easter Sunday were High Masses at St. Robert's. And the same guy directed both of them. I hope, with all my heart, that he slept like a log after that.
Improvisation on the Sequence VICTORY, The Strife is O'er Introit GR Kyrie/Gloria VIII Psalm LCM Alleluia GR Sequence Victoria a8 (slightly edited) Credo III Offertory, Rice LLANFAIR, Christ the Lord is Risen Today Sanctus/Agnus Dei VIII Communion GR Regina Caeli, Aichinger Come Let's Rejoice, Amner EASTER HYMN, Jesus Christ is Risen Today Trumpet Tune in D Major, McCabe
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