Saint Lucy

Richard Mix

St Cecilia always creeps up on me too late to put everything together, but this year we're at least in time with the Common of Virgins to be singing Vespers next Wednesday at St David's, if any of you are in North California.

Sung Vespers for St Lucy

Schola Cetatus (Ann Callaway, Ben Rudiak-Gould, Jordan Fong, Richard Mix)

Music by Tomas Luis de Victoria and Francesco Guerrero

Versicle
Deus in adjutorium Victoria
Psalms
Dixit Dominus Victoria
Laudate pueri Victoria
Laetatus sum Victoria
Lauda Jerusalem Victoria
Nisi Dominus Victoria
Hymn
Jesu corona Victoria
Antiphon
In tua patientia Jacquet de Mantua, or (and?) Willaert
Canticle
Magnificat primi toni Victoria
Votive antiphon
Alma Redemptoris mater Guerrero

Wednesday December 13, 2023
at 7:15 PM, following the 6:30 Mass
St. David of Wales Church
5641 Esmond Avenue
Richmond CA 94805

Richard Mix

Now I have to think about bookmarks, or maybe reformatting Nacho Alvarez' editions. Here's the first antiphon & Psalm, formatted to fit one page for alternatim use.

Richard Mix

Victoria's 4vv Psalms are of course in modes different from the Luciae antiphons, and missing Laetatus sum (I toyed with making an SATB alternatim arr. from his 3 choir, setting, but we'll sing Vaet instead.) What i've ended up doing is using the bbloomf.github.io Psalm Tone Tool to make companion pages, as here for example. So, spoken antiphons.

Interesting to ponder what Victoria had in mind:
i vi? - vii vi? Victoria a 4
i vii iii viii iv Cecilia antiphons
vii vii viii viii viii Lucia
i i iii i iii Common of virgins
i viii viii vii iii Conceptio BVM
iii vii iii viii viii Purificatio
viii i viii i viii Annuntiatio
vii viii iv vii i Assumptio

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