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Pentecost (A • 2023)

Hi Friends,
Here’s the plan for this weekend. We are going to be short a few members… so, sing your hearts out, please!

  • Entrance Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost to the tune of LAMBILOTTE

  • Entrance Antiphon: Dum Sanctificatus (special arrangement, see below)

  • Kyrie ‘de Angelis’

  • Gloria: Dalitz

  • Psalm 104 • “Lord, send out Your Spirit and renew the face of the earth.”

  • SEQUENCE: Veni Sancte Spiritus (after Jehan Revert)*

    • I have gone ahead and pre-recorded my part into the organ, so I will be with you to conduct and sing Tenor.

    • A note on how this will go: the organ part will always maintain our triple meter (ie-no “free” improvisations, but rather ones that keep the sense of time and introduce the theme to whatever section follows).

    • It’s going to rip-roar and we will have fun. Just follow my lead.

    • I used a metronome while I was recording to prevent any drifting of tempo; as such, it will be important that you come in right on time as I conduct you. If you don’t, you’ll be late.

  • Festal Alleluia

  • Offertory Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus*

    • The Schola (or a Cantor) will sing the first verse and everyone will join in the translation starting on verse 2.

  • Sanctus: Proulx’s Community Mass

  • [Mysterium Fidei in Latin]

  • Agnus Dei: Dalitz

  • Communion Antiphon: Factus Est / Suddenly there was heard…* (see the very bottom for a recording)

    • First Time: JJR sings Latin, then you all repeat refrain in English

    • Verse 1: Men

    • Verse 2: Women

    • Verse 3: Women start, Men take over at “when the poor one called out…”

  • Communion Hymn: O Holy Spirit, Now Descend on Me to the tune EVENTIDE (a.k.a. Abide with Me )

  • [Regina Cæli] (plainchant; this will be our last time until next year!)

Great to get the first verse in Latin as well as the melody itself. Spine-tinglingly beautiful!

 

Looking ahead, you might want to be listening to:

We are singing it a minor third down in the key of F.

Remember: we will sing it slower than this recording.

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Ascension (A • 2023)

Hello Friends,
Here is our ordo for Ascension:

  1. Entrance Hymn: O ye men of Galilee (Trope of the entrance antiphon text) to the tune LLANFAIR

  2. Entrance Antiphon: Viri Galilæi (simplified version)

  3. Psalm 47: “God mounts His throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.”

  4. Festal Alleluia

  5. Offertory Hymn: God rises up to heav’n above to the [original] tune ASCENDIT DEUS
    (see below for audio demo)

  6. Offertory Special: Ad Te Levavi, by Witt

  7. Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #871

  8. Communion Hymn: Do not stand and stare in wonder to the tune THAXTED

  9. Regina Cæli (Lotti)

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Easter VI (A • 2023)

Hello Friends,
Here is our ordo for Easter VI:

  1. Entrance Hymn: Proclaim the news (Trope of the entrance antiphon text) to the tune SINE NOMINE (a.k.a. “For all the Saints”)

  2. Entrance Antiphon: Fr. Weber #819

  3. Psalm 66: “Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.”

  4. Eastertide Alleluia

  5. Offertory Hymn: If Ye Love Me, Says Christ the Lord to the tune PUER NOBIS

  6. Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #832

  7. Communion Special: If Ye Love Me, by Tallis

  8. Communion Hymn: Father, How Wide Thy Glories Shine! to the tune DETROIT (same tune as our offertory hymn last Sunday.)

  9. (Regina Cæli)

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Easter V (A • 2023)

Hello Friends,
Here is our ordo for Easter V:

  1. Entrance Hymn: Sing to the Lord a New Song (Trope of the entrance antiphon text) to the tune DIADEMATA (a.k.a. “Crown Him with Many Crowns”)

  2. Entrance Antiphon: Fr. Weber #799

  3. Psalm 33: “Lord, let Your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in You.”

    (I’m sorry the PT is melody-only this week, but it is still easy to sing along with your individual voice part.)

  4. Eastertide Alleluia

  5. Offertory Hymn: Thou At the Way, the Truth, the Life to the tune DETROIT

  6. Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #812

  7. Communion Special: Cantate Domino by Fr. Lindusky

  8. Communion Hymn: Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor to the tune LAUDA ANIMA (a.k.a. “Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven”)

  9. (Regina Cæli)

  10. Recessional Hymn: O Glorious St. Michæl (trope of the St. Michæl the Archangel prayer) to the tune ELLACOMBE (a.k.a. I Sing the Mighty Power of God)

Here are some organ-only practice tracks for the setting of Cantate Domino by Fr. Lindusky. The grey tracks are modern pitch. The black boxed, individual voice parts I generated back in 2019, so they are pitched higher than we are currently singing the piece, but they are still useful for getting the general contour and pitch relationships of your part into your ear.

As a little treat, I’m also including a restored copy of the original reel-to-reel recording of the St. John’s singers. There is a whole album full of wonderful performances like this… They were truly some amazing musicians, and the recordings (and old music filing cabinets) bear that out!

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Easter IV

Hi Friends,
Here is our ordo for Easter IV (A, 2023).

  1. Entrance Hymn: The Strife Is O’er / Entrance Antiphon Trope.

  2. Entrance Antiphon: Fr. Weber #776

  3. Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.”
    (Men on V. 1&3, Women on V. 2&4)

  4. Eastertide Alleluia

  5. Offertory Hymn: When Morning Gilds the Skies

  6. Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #790
    (Vs. 1&2 and 3&Gloria Patri will be paired together)
    *NB: we will sing the version with the rhythmic markings suppressed. The only markings we will observe are on the word “flock”.

  7. Communion Special: Tantum Ergo by JJR

  8. Communion Hymn: Anima Christi by Marco Frisina

  9. Marian Antiphon: Regina Cæli (Plainchant)

  10. Recessional Hymn: Awake, Arise, Lift Up Thy Voice to the tune of Richmond

There is a full playlist with individual videos for Tantum Ergo.

There are individual voice parts linked in the video description.

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Easter Morning 2023

  1. Prelude:

    1. Choral Fanfare for Christ the King by H. Hamilton Smith

    2. With a Voice of Singing by Martin Shaw

  2. Entrance Hymn: Jesus Christ is Ris’n Today!

  3. Entrance Antiphon: Fr. Weber #679

  4. Vidi Aquam

  5. Gloria (Community Mass)

  6. Psalm 118 “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad!

  7. Easter Sequence*
    We will do my arrangement with organ interludes, based upon the harmonies formulated by Chanoine Revert at Notre Dame in Paris, although we will sing it straight, rather than metrically. For the curious, here’s what the original sounds like! Now for something calmer that will help you more practically: here’s a plain recording of the original chant to help you with the melody-only portions.

  8. Eastertide Alleluia
    (*see below for mp3 organ demo; NB: we will repeat the Alleluia after the Gospel is read.)

  9. Offertory Hymn: Jesus is Risen, Let us Sing! (Lasst us erfreuen)

  10. (Sanctus & Agnus from Proulx’s Community Mass—we will sing this for all of Eastertide)

  11. Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #698

  12. At the Lamb’s High Feast

  13. O Sons and Daughters (O filii et filiae)

  14. Repeat performances of Pitoni’s Cantate Domino and Lotti’s Regina Caeli (see Easter Vigil list for links). Easter morning we will sing the Regina Caeli at the end of mass with all the verve and vigor we can muster!

We will take the Wednesday after Easter off; (you’ll have earned it!—to put it mildly!) however for those who are able (and willing) to make it, we can re-group on Divine Mercy Sunday (Easter II) and just have a repeat performance of With a voice of singing coupled with Psalm 118, “Give thanks to the Lord for He is good…” and more of our favorite Easter hymns.

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