Music for Easter-3-B (Apr 30)

Prelude:           Slow March: Shephard
Processional Hymn: 252: Come Ye Faithful Raise The Strain
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          554
Offertory:         x
                   (11) Stetit Jesus: Jacob Handl
Acclamations:      Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    446: In The Breaking Of The Bread
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        259: I Know That My Redeemer Lives
Postlude:          Pastorale: Shephard

Music Notes:


Franz Schubert (1797-1828) composed his "Deutsche Messe (D 872)"
in 1826. Richard Proulx adaptated its Mass-Songs, replacing German
poetry with English Mass texts (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial
Acclamation, Amen, Agnus Dei). These easy-to-sing melodies will
be used throughout the Easter Season; please use the heavy-stock
music cards in the pews (and leave them there for the next Mass!).


Jacobus Petelin/Handl/Gallus (1550-1591) born in Ribnica Carniola
Slovenia; Cistercian monk; traveled in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia;
Melk Abbey (lower Austria); 1574 Vienna court chapel; 1579-85
choirmaster to Bishop of Olomouc Moravia. The ambiguity in his name
is due to translating the original name Petelin (meaning rooster)
into the German diminutive Handl and the Latin equivalent Gallus at
different times in his life. Writing at the end of the Renaissance,
he was able to avail himself of musical ideas that had matured over
two centuries, crafting a sophisticated synthesis of Franco-Flemish,
German, and Italian styles. Contemporaries admired his music for its
beautifully woven counterpoint (sometimes calling him "The Bohemian
Palestrina") and for his command of rhythm (alternating between double
and triple meter) and using word accents to enhance rhythmic variety
and create moments of excitement or serenity within the relatively
static harmony and dense polyphonic texture.


His most notable work is a six volume collection of Latin motets
to cover the liturgical needs of the entire ecclesiastical year
("Opus musicum (1587)"); volume three contains "Stetit Jesus" here
translated: "Jesus came and stood in the midst of his disciples
and said to them: Peace be to you. Alleluia. Look upon my hands
and my feet for it is I. Alleluia. The disciples were glad at the
sight of their Lord. Alleluia."


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.