Music for Advent-2-A (Dec 9)

Readings:          480

Prelude:           Conditor alme siderum: Dupre
Processional Hymn: (5) Stay Awake Be Ready
                 184: On Jordan's Bank
Kyrie:             Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Advent-
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         191: People Look East
                 (11) And the glory of the Lord: Handel
Acclamations:      Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Communion Hymn:    197: My Soul In Stillness Waits
                 (5)(gr2+3) Oh Lord my heart is not proud
Final Hymn:        193: The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
Postlude:          Reveillez-vous, la voix des veillerus: Dupre

Music Notes:

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

This is the weekend after First Friday. Saturday 5 pm Vigil Mass:
Lectors are from Grade 2 and Grade 3; Music is led by the School Choir
(directed by Rebecca Monson).

The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper): Ierusalem
surge, et sta in excelso; et vide iucunditatem, quae veniet tibi a deo
tuo (Arise O Jerusalem, and stand on high; and behold the joy that shall
come to you from your God).

Marcel Dupre (1886-1971) spent much of his life at the Paris
Conservatoire: as student (1902-14) under Guilmant, Vierne, Widor;
as Professor of organ (1926-54); as Director (1954-56). He was also
at St Sulpice: as assistant organist (1906-34) to C M Widor, then
titulaire (1934-71).

"Conditor alme siderum" is the first of his "Sixteen Chorales"
(1942, opus 38).

"Reveillez-vous, la voix des veillerus" is one of his
"Seventy-nine Chorales" (1931, opus 28) which were composed during
the Summer months and dedicated to banker Gustave Ogier, who was
an aspiring organist. This tune is known in German as "Wachet auf,
ruft uns die Stimme" and in English as "Sleepers wake".