Music for Lent-2-A (Feb 17)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 413: Tis Good Lord To Be Here
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          505
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (5) Open our eyes Lord: Cull
                   (11) O Wondrous Type: Monteverdi
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  (5) 103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
                   (830) 140-141-145: Angels and Saints: Janco
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    329: Beautiful Savior
Final Hymn:        298: Praise To You O Christ Our Savior
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


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


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Visionem quam vidistis, nemini dixeritis donec a mortuis
resurgat Filius hominis (Tell no one about the vision you
have seen until the Son of Man has risen from the dead).


"Tis Good Lord To Be Here" summarizes the Gospel event and petitions
for Jesus' abiding presence. The tune was composed in 1745 by
Johann Martin Speiss (1715-1772) who also wrote numerous solos,
motets, sonatas, masses, requiems, when not performing his duties
as prior of the Benedictine Irsee Monastery (near Kaufbeuren
Schwaben Germany, from whence the tune has the title SWABIA).
The tune was adapted by Anglican pastor and hymnist (writer of
poetry and hymn tunes and harmonies) William Henry Havergal
(1793-1870); his daughter Frances was also a hymnist. The text
is a poem written in 1888 by Joseph Armitage Robinson (1858-1933),
an Anglican scholar of New Testament and Patristics.


"O Wondrous Type" is by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) who was
born in Cremona Italy and received his earliest training from
Marc' Antonio Ingegneri, head of music at Cremona Cathedral.
In 1590 he entered the service of the Gonzaga Dukes of Mantua
(Vincenzo, Francesco, Ferdinando) as a viol/violin player;
in 1599 he married court singer Claudia de Cattaneis (who bore
him three children before dying in 1607); in 1602 he became
master of the ducal chapel. From 1613 until his death he was
choirmaster at St Mark's in Venice; in 1632/33 he was ordained
a Catholic priest. One of the major composers in the history of
western music, he served as a transitional figure from the
Renaissance to the Baroque. His compositions were varied and
many, including: the earliest opera [L'Orfeo (1607)] to retain
a place in the modern repertoire; canzonettas, motets, madrigals;
service music [e.g., Vespers (1610)]; masses.