CHANT AND SPIRITUALITY OF CHRISTMAS ($16.95)

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LP: 0-8146-7914-5

In Honor of St. Patrick: CD
Chant for His Feast
Schola Cantorum of St. Peter's-in-the-Loop Church, Chicago; J. Michael Thompson, Director
Recorded for the first time on any label, the First Vespers and Mass for the feast of St. Patrick are now available on In Honor of St. Patrick.

Transcribed from fifteenth-century Irish manuscripts, these Latin chants are sung, perhaps for the first time by anyone since the Reformation, by the Schola Cantorum of Saint Peter's-in-the-Loop. In Honor of St. Patrick presents Vespers in its entirety, word-for-word as it would have been heard in the late 1400s at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The choral chant for the Mass is also included.

This is a rare opportunity to hear a local dialect of Gregorian chant. The CD booklet provides the texts in Latin, English, and Irish.

Selections for the First Vespers are:

Introduction

First Vesper Psalm: 112

Second Vesper Psalm: 116

Third Vesper Psalm: 145

Fourth Vesper Psalm: 146

Fifth Vesper Psalm: 147

Capitulum

Responsory and Prose

Office Hymn

Versicle and Response

Magnificat

Collect

Conclusion

Selections for Mass are:

Office (Introit)

Troped Kyrie

Gloria in excelsis Deo

Respond (Gradual)

Tract

Sequence

Nicene Creed

Offertory and Prose

Preface and Sanctus

Agnus Dei

Communion and Verse

Dismissal

J. Michael Thompson is the director of music ministry at St. Peter's Church, where he is the founder and director of the Schola Cantorum. He has been a pastoral musician and liturgist for twenty years, as well as a composer, author, and a noted promoter of the Liturgy of the Hours and Gregorian chant in contemporary parish situations.