Music for Advent-1-C (Nov 29)

Prelude:           Conditor alme siderum (verset 1): Titelouze
Processional Hymn: 195: Creator Of The Stars Of Night
Kyrie:             Missa XVII (salve): chant
Gloria:            -no-Gloria-during-Advent-
Readings:          479
Psalm:             (Guimont p 9) To you O Lord I lift...
Acclamation:       (Advent-1-C) Lord show us your love...
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         352: Love Divine All Loves Excelling
                   (11) (score) Messiah # 4 "And The Glory": Handel
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Missa XVII (salve): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XVII (salve): chant
Communion Hymn:    197: My Soul In Stillness Waits
Final Hymn:        190: O Come O Come Emmanuel (v=1,2,3)
Postlude:          Conditor alme siderum (verset 3): Titelouze

Music Notes:


Happy Liturgical New Year to all! The New Church Year begins
this weekend, and for the next twelve months our Scripture texts
will be found in the Hymnals under the headings "Sunday C" and
"Weekday 2". We begin the tenth year of use of the Catholic
Community Hymnal (blessed and distributed Dec 2000). During Advent,
our Introductory Rite is noticeably more penitential: the Kyrie
becomes more prominent as we set aside the Gloria except for feast
days (Dec 8 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Dec 12 Feast
of Our Lady of Guadalupe).


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
(Ps 83:13) Dominus dabit benignitatem; et terra nostra dabit
fructum sum (The Lord will bestow his loving kindness; and our
land will yield its fruit).


Jean Titelouze (1563-1633) at a young age became organist at the
cathedral in Rouen France, and remained there the rest of his life.
Among his many compositions are three versets on the melody of
"Conditor alme siderum" (see Hymnal 195); the prelude and postlude this
weekend are his first and third versets (first with melody in pedals,
third with melody hidden among other notes in manuals and pedals).