Music for Easter-5-B (May 14)

Prelude:           Minuete em La Menor: Anonimo
Processional Hymn: 350: Lord Of All Nations
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          560
Offertory:         Ave Maria: Schubert
                   (11) Ave Maria: Mozart
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    381: We Have Been Told
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        420: O Most Virtuous
Postlude:          Batalha de 6 Tom: Araujo

Music Notes:


Franz Schubert (1797-1828) composed his "Deutsche Messe (D 872)"
in 1826. Richard Proulx adapted its music to English Mass texts in
1985; 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!).


In honor of all mothers on this Mother's Day weekend, at Offertory
we offer two settings of "Ave Maria": at 5 pm and 830 am, the familiar
solo of "Ave Maria" by Schubert; at 11 am a round in four parts
"Ave Maria" by Mozart.


In honor of Our Lady of Fatima (Feast Day May 13), at the Prelude and
Postlude we hear music from Portugal. The Prelude is by an anonymous
composer of the 1700s. The Postlude is by Pedro de Araújo (??- after 1704)
who lived in Braga Portugal, and was a music teacher at its priests'
seminary and organist at its cathedral. In his compositions, Portuguese
organ music reached its zenith, achieving a level of quality and formal
variety that made it the equal of Spain's. He was the leading figure of
a school of secular and monastic organists active in the arch-bishopric
of Braga during the late 1600s and early 1700s. His "Batalha de 6 Tom
(Battle scene on the sixth tone)" makes use of the highly impressive
timbres of cornets (mixtures) and horizontal reeds.