Music for OT-12-C (Jun 24) Saint John The Baptist

Prelude:           Grandioso: Vann
Processional Hymn: 284: Christ Is The King
Kyrie:             -spoken-
Gloria:            135: Glory To God
                   (11) Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          vigil 746, day 747
Intercessions:     -spoken-
Offertory:         6: Now Bless The God Of Israel
                   (11) Inter natos mulierum: Morales
Acclamations:      Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    467: Remember Your Love
Final Hymn:        424: Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones
Postlude:          Trumpet Air And Interlude: Vann

Music Notes:


This weekend the Solemnity of the Birth of John The Baptist
supersedes the Sunday Vigil/Day of Ordinary Time (Week 12).


Stanley Vann (1910-) was organist at several English cathedrals
(Leicester, Chelmsford, Peterborough) and composer of motets,
anthems, organ pieces.


Cristobal de Morales (1500-1553) was born in Seville Spain,
received musical education with foremost composers of the time.
Held posts at Avila, Plasencia, Rome (1535-45 as a singer in the
papal choir of Pope Paul III), then returned to Spain. He is
generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer
before Tomas Luis de Victoria, and focuses on expression and
understandability of the texts. All his compositions are for voice,
and most are sacred (many Masses, 100+ motets, 18 Magnificat,
5+ Lamentations). His motet "Inter natos mulierum" of 1546
sets Matthew 11:11 (Inter natos mulierum non surrexit maior,
Iohanne Baptista, qui viam Domini, praeparavit in heremo)
(Among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a
greater than John the Baptist who prepared the way of the Lord
in the wilderness) and John 1:6 (Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui
momen erat Iohannes) (There was a man sent from God, whose
name was John).