Sunday, 23 December 2012
Entrance | Come Saviour, Come |
Kyrie | Missal Chant |
Psalm | Ps 79 (James Walsh) |
Gospel Acclamation | Advent Gospel Acclamations (Alan Smith) |
Preparation of the Gifts | Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934) |
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen | Missal Chant |
Agnus Dei | Missal Chant |
Communion | (i) O Clavis David (ii) Veni Immanuel (Bell) |
Postcommunion | Rorate Caeli (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599) |
Recessional | O come, O come Emmanuel |
Today’s entrance antiphon begins
Drop down dew from above, you heavens
and let the clouds rain down the Just One;
Two of our musical choices were based on this text. Guerrero’s polyphonic setting uses a composite text that no other composer, to my knowledge, has also set, namely the entrance antiphon text (in Latin) followed by a verse from Ps 84(85) and the words veni Domine, et noli tardare (come Lord, and do not delay). Our entrance song, on the other hand, was Luke Connaughton’s translation of the so-called Advent prose, a seventeenth-century French composition which also takes the beginning of the antiphon text as its refrain, interspersed with penitential verses loosely (I think) derived from Isaiah and others.
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