Prelude: Puer nobis nascitur: Lebegue
Processional Hymn: 215: Good Christian Friends Rejoice
Kyrie: -spoken-
Gloria: Gloria de Lourdes: Lecot/Berry
Readings: 493 or 495
Intercessions: 115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory: 207: Awake Awake And Greet The New Morn
Acclamations: 103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei: 108: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn: 221: What Child Is This
Final Hymn: 417: Sing Of Mary Meek And Lowly
Postlude: Les Cloches: Lebegue
Music Notes:
Nicholas-Antoine Lebegue (1630-1702), organist to Louis XIV,
and organist at Saint-Merry (Paris), was also a harpsichordist.
With Nivers and Gigault, he evolved music forms to exploit the
technical developments of the French organ (more manuals, more
stops, interesting sound combinations). He composed three volumes
of organ works: Book One contains suites based on each of the
eight liturgical tones; Book Two contains settings of Mass parts
(Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) and a Magnificat for each tone;
Book Three contains pieces usable as Preludes or Postludes, several
Offertories and Elevations, and Noels (sets of variations on popular
French Christmas Carols).
"Puer nobis nascitur (A child is born for us)" presents the tune
four times: slightly ornamented above a light accompaniment;
majestically; floridly (melody hidden among many other notes);
rhythmically altered with suspensions and resolutions.
"Les Cloches (The Bells)" is a character piece based on a four-note
carillon (bell tower) sequence; it begins softly, imitating the small
bells, and gradually builds, introducing more and more of the larger
bells into the joyous clamour.
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