Music for Advent-2-B (Dec 4)

Prelude:           Sinfonia: Handel
Processional Hymn: (5) Stay Awake: Walker
                   194: On Jordan's Bank
Penitential Rite:  Missa XVII (salve): chant
                   (11) Missa Emmanuel: Proulx
Gloria:            -none-during-Advent-
Readings:          481
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (5) Everyday God: Farrell
                   (11) Comfort ye my people: Goudimel
Acclamations:      Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
                   (11) Missa Emmanuel: Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Missa XVII (salve): chant
                   (11) Missa Emmanuel: Proulx
Communion Hymn:    193: The King Shall Come
Post-Communion:    (5) Listen My Friends: Ding/Hawn
Final Hymn:        198: Come O Long Expected Jesus
Postlude:          Pifa: Handel

Music Notes:


This weekend at Sat 5 pm Vigil Mass, Grade Two members are lectors, the School Choir leads our music.


Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) was born in Halle Germany, and started his music lessons at age 7. In 1702 the death-bed wish of his barber-surgeon father obligated him to divert his attention to law school; within a year he dropped out and went
to Hamburg as a violinist and composer. In 1706 he went to Italy and became a master of its opera, chamber, vocal music; in 1710 he returned to Germany and was appointed Kappellmeister to the Elector of Hanover, and made a brief visit to England. In 1712
he again went to England; his visit became permanent as the Elector begame George I of England.


His oratorio Messiah (Dublin 1742) uses the text of today’s First Reading (Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11) for movements 2, 3, 4, 9; the Sinfonia is the overture; the Pifa (pan-pipes) suggests the pastoral scene just before the angels announce the birth of Jesus.