Music for Lent-5-C (Mar 25)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 353: What Wondrous Love Is This
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-
Readings:          516 (Gospel 514)
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         28: Be Merciful O Lord
                   (11) Super flumina: Lassus
Acclamations:      (5) 185: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) 187: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    449: I Am The Bread Of Life
Final Hymn:        465: Forgive Our Sins
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


Orlando di Lassus (c1532-1594) was a Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music. Along with Palestrina he is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish School, and he was the most famous and influential musician in Europe by the end of his life.


His setting of Psalm 136/137:1 "Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus, dum recordaremur tui, Sion" (By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Sion) captures well the mood (the musings of a people in exile) and character of the text (movement of the flowing water, sitting down, weeping).