Music for OT-7-B (Feb 19)

Prelude:           Palace Beautiful: Shephard
Processional Hymn: 382: I Danced In The Morning
Gloria:            94: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Readings:          597
Offertory:         468: Healer Of Our Every Ill
                   (11) (NCAB p 77) Blessed is he: Wise
Acclamations:      103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei:         108: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn:    357: You Are Mine
Post-Communion:    (5) Cares Chorus
Final Hymn:        321: Now Thank We All Our God
Postlude:          Pastorale: Shephard

Music Notes:


At the Sat 5 pm Vigil Mass the Children's Choir leads the music.


The English Baroque encompasses a major period of social unrest.
After death of Elizabeth I (1533-r1558-1603, daughter of Henry VIII),
England was ruled by the Stuarts: James I (1566-r1603-1625, son of Mary
Queen of Scots, Calvinist, responsible for "King James Version" Bible
translation) and Charles I (1600-r1625-1649, son of James I, high
church Anglican) during which Puritans migrated to New England (1620),
Civil War (1642-5) of King/Cavaliers vs Parliament/RoundHeads/Puritans/Cromwell,
and Puritan values contributed to general suppression of liturgical
and other music. During the Protectorate (1653-60, Lord Cromwell) public
forms of music for the people developed. During the Restoration, Charles II
(1630-r1660-1685, Catholic sympathies) and James II (1633-r1685-1688,
brother of Charles II, Catholic), there was a turn from Puritan austerity
toward expanded musical life, the Chapel Royal was reorganized under
Henry Cooke (1647-1674) as a new major center for liturgical music;
three of his pupils became distinguished musicians: Pelham Humphrey,
John Blow, Michael Wise.


Michael Wise (1629?-1687) worked in: Chapel Royal
(163?-44 chorister); St George Chapel Windsor (1663-6 lay
clerk = paid professional singer); Salisbury Cathedral
(1668-76 organist and chorister instructor); Chapel Royal
(1675-78 organist, 1676-85 gentleman and countertenor);
St Paul Cathedral (1687- almoner = distributer of alms,
Master of Choristers); shortly thereafter killed by a
night-watchman. Composed services, verse anthems with organ
which featured melodic solos, ensembles for treble voices which
show unusual qualities of pathos and expression.


Richard Shephard (1949-), born in England, began his career in
Anglican church music at Gloucester Cathedral as a chorister;
attended Corpus Christi College Cambridge (receiving MA ARSCM)
as choral scholar; has held posts at Salisbury Cathedral (music
teacher, composer, choir member), Godolphin School (music director),
York Minster (1995, school headmaster, church sub-chamberlain, etc).
Received Lambeth Degree (2001 DMus); appointed Fellow of the Royal
School of Church Music (2004). Composes anthems and liturgical settings
for choir, pieces for organ.