The Feast of the Annunciation of the B.V.M

Transferred to the 8th April 2024 (Monday after Low Sunday)

HISTORY

A commentary on the History of this Feast can be found in the excellent  Liturgical Year, the Eastertide Office here, Commentary on the Mass here,

PROPERS

Recordings of the music on youtube are linked from this site, music of the Propers with a commentary and suggestions for choir directors and singers. A more detailed history and commentary on the music for today is explained in The chants of the Vatican Gradual, By Dominic Johner, OSB

ORDINARY

Mass IX, Credo I

MUSIC

This site has the chant notation automatically set from code held in Gregobase. This online programme that will also works on phones allows you to choose from comprehensive lists what chants you want to sing and will format it all into a pdf document. You can also click on the neumes and it will play the pitches, and show the range. Here is a link for the options for this Feast GABC Propers tool.

EXTRA MUSIC

• Offertory Motet: Virgini Mariae Laudes, Paschaltide sequence A.D. 1233 (Analecta Hymnica Vol. 54. No. 21)
• Communion motet: Caelestis Aulae Nuntius (Joyful Mysteries) Dominican melody, English translation
• Communion motet:  Mittit ad Virginem, former sequence composed by Peter Abelard (1079-1142) translation from the Liturgical year.

MARIAN ANTHEM

Regina coeli Solemn tone