Music for OT-29-B (Oct 22)

Prelude:           Voluntary # 9 in A minor: Boyce
Processional Hymn: 444: Alleluia Sing To Jesus
Kyrie:             -spoken-
Gloria:            (5) Glory To God; Anderson
                   113: Glory To God: Andrews
Readings:          663
Offertory:         379: Only This I Want
                   (11) (NCAB p 110) Comfort O Lord: Crotch
Acclamations:      103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei:         108: Mass Of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn:    376: Two Fishermen
Final Hymn:        389: We Are Called
Postlude:          Voluntary # 10 in G major: Boyce

Music Notes:


This weekend at the Sat 5 pm Vigil Mass, the Music is led
by the School Choir (directed by Rebecca Monson).


William Crotch (1775-1847) born in Greens Lane Norwich
England to a master carpenter; age 2 played upon the home
organ something like the tune of "God Save The King"; age 4
in London (Picadilly) gave daily recitals on home organ of
milliner; early aptitude for drawing; 1788 Oxford; 1790
Christ Church organist; 1797 Oxford music instructor;
1799 Oxford PhD Music; also produced many fine paintings;
1817 Royal Institution music lecturer; 1822- London Royal
Academy of Music principal; died suddenly in Taunton at
house of his son Rev W R Crotch. Wrote: oratorios ("The
Captivity of Judah (1789)", "Palestine (1812)", "The
Captivity of Judah (1834)"); piano arrangements (Handel
oratorios and operas; symphonies and quartets of Haydn,
Mozart, Beethoven); textbooks ("Specimens of Various Styles
of Music vol 1-3 (<1831)", "Elements of Musical Composition
and ThoroughBass (1812)").


"Comfort O Lord the soul of thy servant" is a short
extract from a longer anthem "Be merciful to me" and sets
Psalm 86:4 in brevity and simplicity. Although the text
is repeated four times, each section is treated in such
a way as to draw new emphasis and meaning from the words.