Sunday, August 9, 2009

Music for OT-19-B (Aug 9)


Prelude: Elevation ou Communion: Saint-Saens
Processional Hymn: 300: All Creatures Of Our God And King
Kyrie: -spoken-
(11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Gloria: 113: Glory To God: Andrews
(11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Readings: 633
Psalm: (Guimont p 131) Taste and see...
Acclamation: (OT-19-B) I am the living bread...
Intercessions: -spoken-
Offertory: 437: Taste And See
(11) (sheet) Panis angelicus: Saint-Saens
Sanctus/Mem/Amen: 172-175-177: Community Mass: Proulx
(11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Agnus Dei 189: Lamb Of God: Proulx
(11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Communion Hymn: 449: I Am The Bread Of Life
Final Hymn: 318: Let All Things Now Living
Postlude: Allegro Moderato in F: C J May

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper)
(Jn 6:52) Panis, quem ego dedero, caro mea est pro saeculi vita
(The bread which I will give is my flesh for the life of the world).


This is the weekend after First Friday; Sunday 11 am Mass:
our chant setting is Missa VIII (de angelis).


Charles Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) had piano lessons
with Stamaty (1842) and Boely; entered Conservatoire (1848)
and studied with Halevy; his dazzling gifts early won him the
admiration of Gounod, Rossini, Berlioz, Liszt. Organist (1857-75)
at the Madeleine; teacher (1861-5) at the Ecole Niedermeyer.
Organized concerts, revived interest in older music (Bach,
Handel, Rameau), wrote on topics (musical, scientific, historical),
traveled often and widely (Europe, North Africa, South America),
co-founded (1871) Societe Nationale de Musique. Wrote sonatas,
chamber music, symphonies, concertos, symphonic poems, operas,
choral works, organ pieces. His Panis Angelicus (18__) sets the
last two stanzas of the hymn Sacris solemniis, composed by
St Thomas Aquinas for Matins of Corpus Christi and of the Votive
Office of the Most Blessed Sacrament.


Charles J May (no dates) was organist and choirmaster at St James in Hatcham.


Thursday Evening Choir Rehearsals will resume on Thu Aug 13.

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