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.