Music for Lent-3-B (Mar 19)

Prelude:           -silence-
Processional Hymn: 238: Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days
Penitential Rite:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          509
Offertory:         232: Somebody's Knocking At Your Door
                   (11) Zum Eingang: Schubert
Acclamations:      185: Sanctus: chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    335: Seek Ye First
Final Hymn:        388: God Whose Purpose Is To Kindle
Postlude:          -silence-

Music Notes:


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


Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) born in Vienna Austria, at a young age studied music (violin, piano) and was a choirboy; attended (1808-13) Stadtkonvikt. Worked as schoolteacher (1814-17), thereafter lived a modest bohemian existence largely supported by friends; noticed (1823) declining health. Throughout his short life, bridging classical and early romantic music periods, he wrote prolifically for: orchestra (9 symphonies), chamber instruments (piano, strings, winds), voice (600+ songs, choral, opera, 7 masses). His works were catalogued in chronological order by Otto Erich Deutsch (hence identified by "D" and number).


Schubert's "Deutsche Messe (D 872)", composed in 1826, consists of settings of devotional poetry by Johann Philip Neumann (1774-1849), who was a professor of Physics at the Vienna Polytechnical Institute; the collaboration resulted in a practical Austrian folk-style Mass for use by that student congregation. It consists of eight songs; these are titled according to the appropriate points during the Mass at which they are to be sung (e.g., "Zum Eingang" is translated "at the entrance" and was intended as its processional hymn). During the Easter Season we will be using the Richard Proulx adaptation of these Mass-Songs to the texts of the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Agnus Dei.