Music for Advent-3-A (Dec 16) Gaudete

Readings:          483

Prelude:           Messiah "Sinfonia": Handel
Processional Hymn: 288: The King Of Glory Comes
                  (830 Introit Proper)
Kyrie:             Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Advent-
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (5) Messiah "O thou that tellest": Handel
                  (830) 288: The King Of Glory Comes
                  (11) Amekuja Mwokosi
Acclamations:      Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Communion Hymn:    198: Come O Long Expected Jesus
Final Hymn:        6: Now Bless The God Of Israel
Postlude:          Messiah "Pifa": Handel

Music Notes:

Readings are found in the hymnal under the headings
"Sunday A" and "Weekday 2".

The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Dicite: Pusillanimes confortamini, et nolite timere; ecce
Deus noster veniet, et salvabit nos (Say: "Take courage,
you who are fainthearted, and do not fear; behold, our God
will come and he will save us").

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) was born in Halle Germany,
and started his music lessons at age 7. In 1702 the death-bed wish
of his barber-surgeon father obligated him to divert his attention
to law school; within a year he dropped out and went to Hamburg
as a violinist and composer. In 1706 he went to Italy and became
a master of its opera, chamber, vocal music; in 1710 he returned
to Germany and was appointed Kappellmeister to the Elector of Hanover,
and made a brief visit to England. In 1712 he again went to England;
his visit became permanent as the Elector became George I of England.
His oratorio "Messiah" (Dublin 1742) has 53 movements; "Sinfonia" is
the overture; "Pifa" (pan-pipes) suggests the pastoral scene just
before the angels announce the birth of Jesus.