Tag: “Advent” (38 posts)

Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C

December 19, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI Hymn: Come, O Long-Expected Jesus (JEFFERSON or STUTTGART), all verses Introit: Rorate caeli desuper, Mode I Gregorian chant (antiphon only) Sign of the Cross: chanted, English Greeting: Form A, English Penitential Rite: [...]

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Third Sunday of Advent (“Gaudete Sunday”), Year C

December 12, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI Organ Prelude: Improvisation on Introit: Gaudete and WINCHESTER NEW Hymn: On Jordan’s Bank (WINCHESTER NEW), vv. 1–5 Introit: Gaudete in Domino semper, Mode I Gregorian chant (antiphon only) Sign of the Cross: [...]

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Second Sunday of Advent, Year C

December 6, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI Hymn: O Come, Divine Messiah (VENEZ, DIVIN MESSIE), vv. 1, 3 Introit: Populus Sion, Mode VII Gregorian chant (antiphon only) Sign of the Cross: chanted, English Greeting: Form A, English Penitential Rite: [...]

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First Sunday of Advent, Year C

November 29, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI Hymn: O Come, Divine Messiah (VENEZ, DIVIN MESSIE), vv. 1, 2 Introit: Ad te levavi, Mode VIII Gregorian chant (antiphon only) Sign of the Cross: chanted, English Greeting: Form A, English Penitential [...]

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English-language polyphonic Offertories by Richard Rice

September 17, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra1 comment.

Earlier today, Richard Rice released six Offertory settings on the MusicaSacra Forum: Not exactly new, just the latest sifting through the archives, which gave me a chance to rework these ten year old English Offertory settings. They are all SATB a cappella, strictly common practice, in the Tudor English Anthem vein (to the best of [...]

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Dom Dominic Johner OSB on the Introit for the Third Sunday of Advent

December 8, 2008 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

(View a high-resolution image of the square notation.) [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/in_gaudete_in_domino_c_g_p.mp3] 1. Rejoice in the Lord again I say, rejoice: 2. let your modesty be known to all men: 3. for the Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous: 4. but in every thing, by prayer let your petitions be made known unto God. Ps. Thou hast blessed [...]

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Dom Dominic Johner OSB on the Communion Antiphon for the Second Sunday of Advent

December 5, 2008 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

(View a high-resolution image of the square notation.) [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/co_ierusalem_surge.mp3] 1. Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high: 2. and behold the joy that cometh to thee from thy God. —Baruch 5:5; 4:36 Subdued joy, the quiet happiness of Advent, inspires this melody. It knows that the hopes of the soul are not in vain, that [...]

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Dom Dominic Johner OSB on the Offertory Antiphon for the Second Sunday in Advent

December 4, 2008 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

(View a high-resolution image of the square notation.) [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/of_deus_tu_convertens.mp3] 1. O God, turning, thou wilt bring us life, 2. and thy people shall rejoice in thee: 3. show us, 0 Lord, thy mercy, 4. and grant us thy salvation. —Psalm 84(85):7-8 For a musician the change in the character of the melody at the beginning [...]

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Dom Dominic Johner OSB on the Alleluia Verse for the Second Sunday in Advent

December 3, 2008 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

(View a high-resolution image of the square notation.) [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/al_laetatus_sum2.mp3] 1. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: 2. We shall go into the house of the Lord. —Psalm 121(122):1 Allelúia with its two ascending fourths begins with an energetic swing, making one surmise that a greater development is to follow. In the [...]

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Dom Dominic Johner OSB on the Gradual for the Second Sunday of Advent

December 2, 2008 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

(View a high-resolution image of the square notation.) [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/gr_ex_sion.mp3] 1. Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty: 2. God shall come manifestly. V/. 1. Gather ye together his saints to him, 2. who have set 3. his covenant before sacrifices. —Psalm 49(50):2-3, 5 When the Lord will come, He will bring joy to the [...]

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