Music for Easter-6-A (Apr 27)

Prelude:           Voluntary # 3 in C: Boyce
Processional Hymn: 264: Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          562
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         397: They'll Know We Are Christians
                   (11) Beatus Vir (m4): Vivaldi
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    429: You Satisfy The Hungry Heart
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        423: Lift High The Cross
Postlude:          Voluntary # 1 in D: Boyce

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos, alleluia: quaecumque dixero
vobis, alleluia, alleluia (The Holy Spirit will teach you,
alleluia; all the things that I have said unto you, alleluia,
alleluia).


William Boyce (1711-1779), born in London, the youngest of
four children of a cabinet-maker. St Paul Cathedral Chorister
under Charles King (1687-1748), then pupil of Maurice Greene
(1695-1755), and Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752) who was
one of the more influential foreign composers and teachers
flourishing in England at the time. Despite hearing loss from
age 24 which worsened over his lifetime, had remarkable career:
Oxford Chapel organist (Vere Street 1734-36); Chapel Royal
composer (1736-); St Michael organist (Cornhill 1736-38);
Cambridge graduate (PhD Music 1749); All Hallows organist (Thames
Street 1749-69); Master of the King's Music (1755); Chapel Royal
organist (1758-79). The collection of English Cathedral Music
started by Greene (left unfinished at death) was willed to Boyce,
who completed and published it in several volumes (1760-78);
reprinted and added to until 1849, it is the first publication of
English church music in score form (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
voice parts on a page) rather than in part form (each voice part
in a separate book). His own compositions include: services,
anthems, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music, opera, theater music.
His "Ten Voluntaries" were published posthumously (c1779-1793);
each is in two sections.

Oakland Diocese Cathedral Organ

The Diocesan Newspaper (Catholic Voice) has an article about the new pipe organ to be installed in the Cathedral.
http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/08-04-21/inthisissue4.htm

For the time-challenged:
Orgues Letourneau Limited (Quebec)
4 manuals, 92 stops
About 20% will be available for the Sep 25, 2008 Cathedral Dedication.
The remainder arrives Summer 2009.

Music for Easter-5-A (Apr 20)

Prelude:           Voluntary in D (set 1 no 5) Slow: Stanley
Processional Hymn: 338: How Can I Keep From Singing
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          559
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         357: You Are Mine
                   (11) O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht: Bach
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    453: I Received The Living God
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        (5) I Will Call Upon The Lord
                   259: I Know That My Redeemer Lives
Postlude:          Voluntary in D (set 1 no 5) Allegro: Stanley

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):
Tanto tempore vobiscum sum, et non cognovistis me? Philippe,
qui videt me, videt et Patrem, alleluia. Non credis quia ego
in Patre, et Pater in me est? Alleluia, alleluia (Have I been
with you so long, and yet you do not know me? Philip, he who
sees me, sees the Father. Do you not believe that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me? Alleluia, alleluia).


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote the Cantata (BWV 118)
movement in 1740 while living in Leipzig. The text: O Jesu Christ,
meins Lebens Licht, / mein Hort, mein Trost, mein Zuversicht, /
auf Erden bin ich nur ein Gast, / und drückt mich sehr der Sünden
Last (O Jesu Christ, light of my life, / my refuge, my comfort,
my trust, / on earth I am only a guest, / and the burden of sins
weighs heavily upon me).


The piece will be presented by our Festival Choir (accompanied
by chamber orchestra) on Sun May 18 at 3 pm, here in the church.

Diction? Enunciation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

Music for Easter-4-A (Apr 13)

Prelude:           Pastorale: Zipoli
Processional Hymn: 256: At The Lamb's High Feast We Sing
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          556
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         849: The King Of Love
                   (11) My Shepherd will supply: Thomson
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    432: Shepherd Of Souls In Love Come Feed
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        258: Alleluia Let The Holy Anthem Rise
Postlude:          Pastorale: Shephard

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Ego sum pastor bonus, alleluia; et cognosco oves meas,
et cognoscunt me meae, alleluia, alleluia (I am the good
shepherd, alleluia; I know my sheep and my own sheep know
me, alleluia, alleluia).


Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) born in Kansas City MO,
attended Harvard University, went to Paris and studied
with Nadia Boulanger, authored "The State of Music (1939)",
was New York Herald-Tribune music critic (1940-54), was
instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"
in classical music so often associated with the patriotic
compositions of Aaron Copland. His research into Southeastern
USA shape note tunes, folk hymns, white spirituals, led to
his arrangement of "My Shepherd will supply my need" (text
by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), hymn tune RESIGNATION from
"The Southern Harmony (1835)"). It was incorporated into his
film score for a Department of Agriculture documentary about
the Mississippi River Valley "The River (1937)" which is freely
viewable online (http://www.archive.org).

Music for Easter-3-A (Apr 6)

Prelude:           Prelude in G minor (BWV 558): Bach
Processional Hymn: 382: I Danced In The Morning
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          553
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         315: Sing A New Song
                   (11) Beatus vir (RV 597): Vivaldi
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    446: In The Breaking Of The Bread
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        (5) Shine Jesus Shine
                   425: Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones
Postlude:          Fugue in G minor (BWV 558): Bach

Music Notes:


This is the weekend after First Friday. Saturday 5 pm Vigil
Mass Lectors are from Grade 4, and the Music is led by the School
Choir (directed by Rebecca Monson).


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Surrexit Dominus, et apparuit Petro, alleluia (The Lord has risen
and has appeared to Peter, alleluia).


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote a set of eight short
preludes and fugues for organ between 1704 and 1717; the sixth
of the set is Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BWV 558). The Prelude
is gentle and features chords in different figurations played in
treble and bass: one plays blocked (simultaneous) notes while the
other plays arpeggiated (harp-like, in succession) notes, then they
switch. The Fugue is sturdy with its subject derived from the notes
of the tonic chord (G,Bb,D) with a few close notes (A,C,Eb) added for
interest.

Concert "Eight Little Preludes And Fugues"

http://eft94530.googlepages.com/2008-0404-ffc.pdf

First Friday Concerts
April 4, 2008
11:15 am

Eight Little Preludes And Fugues

Edward F Teixeira, organ

xxx...Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)