My parish will have Sunday services in full again, beginning this Sunday for the first time since mid-June.
All music sung by the men's schola and the Cantores Sancta Mariae Magdalenae of the Church of the Assumption, Nashville TN.
Mass:
Gregorian Propers of the Feast Missa Æterna Christi munera, Palestrina Mihi autem minis, Palestrina Non vos me eligistis, Lassus Salve Regina (simplex) From all thy saints in warfare (AURELIA)
Vespers:
Gregorian Office of the Feast Exsultet cælum laudibus, Victoria Magnificat Primi Toni, Utendal O Salutaris, de la Rue Tantum ergo (mode III) Divine Praises (Maredsous tone) Glorious things of thee are spoken (AUSTRIA)
Asperges mode 7 Gregorian propers (schola) Byrd's Mass for Five voices Credo III Cifra Ave Rex Noster Aichinger O Jesu Rex Salve Regina (simple) To Jesus Christ our sovereign king (Marier harmonization)
Vespers:
Chant office Victoria, Magnificat septimi Toni (even verses in chant) O Salutaris & Tantum ergo, Roman chant from Corpus Christi Divine Praises (Maredsous) Adoremus with verses of ps 116 in chant and falsobordone of Asola Sing my soul his wondrous love (DIX; I wrote an additional strophe inspired by the psalm used for the gradual to make it fit).
So I started reading the text and then got a tune in my head but ran out of words. I gave ST BEES a chance but ultimately a tune with a less common meter had to be really worthwhile to make my list if it can’t easily be reused…and there are not many hymns for the feast as it is: they also need to learn DIX (you’d think that they’d know one or the other texts but a) we had a very limited repertoire until the last year b) if they didn’t grow up Catholic or Episcopalian or otherwise mainline…uh…)
Asperges mode 7 Propers of All Saints Missa O quam gloriosum, Victoria Credo III Justorum animae, Byrd O quam gloriosum, Victoria Salve Regina For all the saints, SINE NOMINE
Vespers:
Chant antiphons and psalms Asola falsobordone for the hymn, to use the modern Roman tone (and for a gross lack of time: otherwise we’d have done the Victoria through-composed version) Victoria Magnificat sexti Toni, odd verses SAT(T)B. Deo gratias, Byrd O Salutaris, Anerio Tantum ergo, chant mode III Divine Praises, Maredsous tone Benedicam Dominum, Croce (y’all don’t be sleeping on Aristotle’s editions: at the very least it’s stuff that I know can be done with a very wide range of forces) Who are these like stars appearing, ALL SAINTS
November at Sacred Heart. All Saints today was one of the high water marks of our music program - almost 50 musicians in the loft and nearly 300 total in the congregation. (Bishop made a surprise visit, too!) Solemn Salve on Last Sunday After Pentecost may be replaced with the Schubert setting, we'll see!
All Saints' Spanish Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas, Bronx NY: Beati mundo corde - Grayston Ives (b. 1948) O sacrum convivium - Giovanni Croce (1557-1609)
All Saints' English Mass at Mary of Nazareth, Brooklyn NY: Missa Sanctorum meritis - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Estote fortes - Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius - Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
All Souls' TLM at Montfort Academy, Mount Vernon NY: Missa pro defunctis - Juan Esquivel (c.1560-before 1630) Heu me, Domine - Vicente Lusitano (c. 1520-c. 1561) Manus tuæ, Domine - Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553)
All Souls' Bilingual Eng/Esp Mass at St. Brigid, Brooklyn NY: A Requiem of Peace - Andrew Wright Ave verum corpus - Colin Mawby (1936-2019) Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts - Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Elegy - Charles Harford Lloyd (1849-1919)
TLM Requiem at Blessed Sacrament, New Rochelle NY: Missa pro defunctis - Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650) Justorum animae - Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) From the depth I called on thee, O Lord - Christopher Tye (c.1505-1573)
Feast of Holy Relics TLM at Corpus Christi, South River NJ: Missa O sacrum convivium - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) O sacrum convivium - Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553) Cantemus Domino - Fernando de las Infantas (1534-c.1610) Blest are the pure in heart (FRANCONIA)
TLM Requiem at St. Aidan, Williston Park NY: Missa pro defunctis - Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553) Miserere mei - Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) In paradisum - Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
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