Assumption of the Blessèd Virgin Mary

Greetings choir! It’s so exciting that we are finally able to start singing again! I am so grateful to all of you who returned this week. Here is our ordo:

• Entrance Antiphon Hymn: “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” (sung to PLEADING SAVIOUR a.k.a. “Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly”)

• Ordinary: Mass in Honor of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, by Michæl Olbash

• Psalm 45 “The Queen stands at Your right hand, arrayed in gold.”

  • NB: I slightly tweaked the rhythm of the refrain on the advice of another composer. I have also made a new version of the score that has each column with the notes fully fleshed out so it is easier to follow. The practice track below has the full complement of SATB solos to help you hear your parts.

• Alleluia Sancte Jacobe (the track below is an S(A/T)B recording and I sing the verse for the solemnity to help you hear it.

• Offertory Chant: “Mary has been taken up into heaven” (a.k.a. Assumpta est Maria)

• Communion Chant: “All generations shall call me blessèd” (a.k.a. Beatam me dicent)

• Communion Motet: “O Maria Virgo Pia” (NB: the practice track is from two years ago; it is organ only but it does have each part dubbed out if you need it.)

• Communion Hymn: “I Hunger and I Thirst” (tune: Mosely, alt.)

  • In this practice video I sing each part in succession on the syllable “la”.

• And lastly, Immaculate Mary (from the hymnal).

See you Sunday morning at 10:20!