{"id":6184,"date":"2017-10-23T07:58:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2017-10-21T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:45:07","slug":"mount-calvary-music-october-29-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-october-29-2017-6184.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music October 29 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Two Great Commandments<\/em><\/p>\n

Mount Calvary Church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Roman Catholic Congregation of<\/p>\n

The Personal Ordinariate\u00a0of the Chair of St. Peter<\/p>\n

Anglican Use<\/em><\/p>\n

Trinity XX<\/span><\/p>\n

Hymns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Come, Thou almighty King<\/i><\/p>\n

Draw near and take the Body of the Lord<\/em><\/p>\n

O God, our help in ages past<\/em><\/p>\n

Anthems<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new commandment,\u00a0<\/i>Thomas\u00a0<\/i>Tallis<\/p>\n

Ubi caritas<\/em>, Maurice\u00a0Durufl\u00e9<\/p>\n

Common<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Missa de S. Maria Magdalena<\/em>, Willan<\/p>\n

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Hymns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Come, Thou Almighty King<\/em><\/strong> is by an unknown author and predates 1757. Similarities between \u201cCome, Thou Almighty King\u201d and the British national anthem \u201cGod Save the King\u201d suggest that the hymn was written as a parody to that national anthem. There is a story that, during the American Revolution, some British soldiers surprised an American congregation on Long Island and ordered them to sing \u201cGod Save the King.\u201d The Americans responded by singing the correct tune, but the words of \u201cCome, Thou Almighty King.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his first letter to Timothy, the apostle Paul warns him that the Christian life is a constant war against evil. He commands Timothy to \u201cFight the good fight of the faith\u201d (1 Timothy 6:12). A few verses later, Paul describes the one for whose sake we fight: \u201cHe who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen\u201d (1 Timothy 6:15-16). In this hymn, we praise God as our King and Ruler, addressing each Person of the Trinity in turn, and end with a request that \u201cHis Sovereign majesty \/ May we in glory see.\u201d<\/p>\n

1 Come, Thou Almighty King,
\nhelp us Thy name to sing,
\nhelp us to praise:
\nFather, all glorious,
\no’er all victorious,
\ncome and reign over us,
\nAncient of Days.
\n2 Come, Thou Incarnate Word,
\ngird on Thy mighty sword,
\nour pray’r attend;
\nCome, and Thy people bless,
\nand give Thy Word success:
\nSpirit of holiness,
\non us descend.
\n3 Come, Holy Comforter,
\nThy sacred witness bear
\nin this glad hour:
\nThou who almighty art,
\nnow rule in ev’ry heart,
\nand ne’er from us depart,
\nSpirit of pow’r.
\n4 To the great One in Three,
\neternal praises be
\nhence evermore.
\nHis sov’reign majesty
\nmay we in glory see,
\nand to eternity
\nlove and adore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tune MOSCOW was composed by Felice Giardini, who born in Turin. When it became clear that he was a child prodigy, his father sent him to Milan. There he studied singing, harpsichord and violin but it was on the latter that he became a famous virtuoso. By the age of 12, he was already playing in theater orchestras. In a famous incident about this time, Giardini, who was serving as assistant concertmaster (i.e. leader of the orchestra) during an opera, played a solo passage for violin which the composer Niccol\u00f2 Jommelli had written. He decided to show off his skills and improvised several bravura variations which Jommelli had not written. Although the audience applauded loudly, Jommelli, who happened to be there, was not pleased and suddenly stood up and slapped the young man in the face. Giardini, years later, remarked, \u201cit was the most instructive lesson I ever received from a great artist.”<\/p>\n

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\nDuring the 1750s, Giardini toured Europe as a violinist, scoring successes in Paris, Berlin, and especially in England, where he eventually settled. For many years, he served as the orchestra leader and director of the Italian Opera in London and gave solo concerts under the auspices of J. C. Bach with whom he was a close friend. He directed the orchestra at the London Pantheon. From the mid-1750s to the end of the 1760s, he was widely regarded as the greatest musical performing artist before the public. His identity with the Signor Giardini, who in 1774 sought with Dr Charles Burney to form a public music school associated with the Foundling Hospital is uncertain. In 1784, he returned to Naples to run a theater, but encountered financial setbacks. In 1793, he returned to England to try his luck. But times had changed, and he was no longer remembered. He then went to Russia, but again had little luck, dying in Moscow in 1796.<\/p>\n

Giardini was a prolific composer, writing for virtually every genre which then existed. His two main areas, however, were opera and chamber music. Virtually all of his music is out of print with the exception of a few songs and works of chamber music. As a string player, he knew how to make string instruments sound their best. His chamber music combines the so-called Style Galant with the mid-18th-century classicism of J.C. Bach, the Stamitzes and the Mannheim school. In the Style Galant, the writing emphasizes the soloistic qualities of the instruments, rather than integrated part-writing, to create a whole. Giardini, although he did write string quartets and quartets for other instruments \u2014 a new and evolving form at the time \u2014 concentrated on writing trios, primarily those for violin, viola and cello, of which he wrote at least 18.<\/p>\n

Giardini is known among Protestant churches for his “Italian Hymn” or “Moscow”, which often accompanies the text to the hymn “Come, Thou Almighty King” and also John Marriott’s hymn “Thou whose almighty word”.<\/p>\n

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Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord<\/em><\/strong> is a translation by the Anglican clergyman John Mason Neale (1818\u20141866) of the seventh-century Latin hymn Sancti venite, corpus Christi sumite<\/em>. From a devout Evangelical family, Neale attended Cambridge, which like Oxford was influenced by the revival of Catholicism.<\/p>\n

The hymn begins with the New Testament understanding of Psalm 34:8: \u201cOh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!\u201d The only way to \u201ctaste and see that the LORD is good\u201d is to \u201cdraw near and take the body of the Lord.\u201d Jesus gives us His body and blood to taste God\u2019s goodness. In God\u2019s goodness, He rules and shields His saints. He gives everlasting life with heavenly bread and living water.<\/p>\n

1 Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord,
\nAnd drink the holy Blood for you outpoured.<\/p>\n

2 Saved by that Body and that holy Blood,
\nWith souls refreshed, we render thanks to God.<\/p>\n

3 Salvation’s giver, Christ, the only Son,
\nBy His dear cross and Blood the victory won.<\/p>\n

4 Offered was He for greatest and for least
\nHimself the Victim, and Himself the Priest.<\/p>\n

5 Victims were offered by the law of old,
\nThat in a type celestial mysteries told.<\/p>\n

6 He, Ransomer from death, and Light from shade
\nNow gives His holy grace, His saints to aid.<\/p>\n

7 Approach ye then with faithful hearts sincere,
\nAnd take the safeguard of salvation here.<\/p>\n

8 He, that His saints in this world rules and shields,
\nTo all believers life eternal yields;<\/p>\n

9 With heavenly bread makes them that hunger whole,
\nGives living waters to the thirsting soul.<\/p>\n

10 Alpha and Omega, to Whom shall bow
\nAll nations at the doom, is with us now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the Latin hymn:<\/p>\n

Sancti venite, Christi corpus sumite,
\nSanctum bibentes, quo redempti sanguinem.<\/p>\n

Salvati Christi corpore et sanguine,
\nA quo refecti laudes dicamus Deo.<\/p>\n

Hoc sacramento corporis et sanguinis
\nOmnes exuti ab inferni faucibus.<\/p>\n

Dator salutis, Christus filius Dei,
\nMundum salvavit per crucem et sanguinem.<\/p>\n

Pro universis immolatus Dominus
\nIpse sacerdos exstitit et hostia.<\/p>\n

Lege praeceptum immolari hostias,
\nQua adumbrantur divina mysteria.<\/p>\n

Lucis indultor et salvator omnium
\nPraeclaram sanctis largitus est gratiam.<\/p>\n

Accedant omnes pura mente creduli,
\nSumant aeterman salutis custodiam.<\/p>\n

Sanctorum custos, rector quoque,
\nDominus, Vitae perennis largitor credentibus.<\/p>\n

Caelestem panem dat esurien- tibus,
\nDe fonte vivo praebet sitientibus.<\/p>\n

Alpha et omega ipse Christus Dominus<\/p>\n

Venit, venturus iudicare homines<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Sancti venite” was composed at Bangor Abbey in the 7th century AD, making it the oldest known Eucharistic hymn. It was carried to Bobbio Abbey and was first published by Ludovico Antonio Muratori in his Anecdota Latina ex Ambrosian\u00e6 Bibliothec\u00e6 codicibus<\/em> (1697\u201398), when he discovered it in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. According to a legend recorded in An Leabhar Breac, the hymn was first sung by angels at St. Seachnall’s Church, Dunshaughlin, after Secundinus had reconciled with his uncle Saint Patrick.<\/p>\n

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O God, our help in ages past<\/em><\/strong>. Considered one of the finest paraphrases written by Isaac Watt (1674\u20141748), the hymn expresses a strong note of assurance, promise, and hope in the LORD as recorded in the first part of Psalm 90. It contrasts the ephemeral quality of human life with the unshakeable eternity of God.<\/p>\n

Watts is often called the \u201cFather of English hymnody\u201d\u2014that is, hymns on a wider range of topics rather than metrical versions of the psalms in the English language. Before him, congregational song focused almost exclusively on singing strict metrical versions of the psalms.<\/p>\n

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1 Our God, our Help in ages past,
\nour Hope for years to come,
\nour Shelter from the stormy blast,
\nand our eternal Home.
\n2 Under the shadow of Thy throne
\nThy saints have dwelt secure;
\nsufficient is Thine arm alone,
\nand our defense is sure.
\n3 Before the hills in order stood
\nor earth received its frame,
\nfrom everlasting Thou art God,
\nto endless years the same.
\n4 A thousand ages in Thy sight
\nare like an ev’ning gone,
\nshort as the watch that ends the night
\nbefore the rising sun.
\n5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
\nbears all its sons away;
\nthey fly forgotten, as a dream
\ndies at the op’ning day.
\n6 Our God, our Help in ages past,
\nour Hope for years to come,
\nbe Thou our Guide while life shall last,
\nand our eternal Home!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is the hymn at Westminster Abbey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hymn tune “St. Anne” was composed by William Croft in 1708 while he was the organist of the church of St. Anne, Soho. J. S. Bach’s Fugue in E-flat major<\/em> BWV 552 is often called the “St. Anne” because of the similarity of its subject to the first line of the hymn tune, though there is some debate as to whether Bach used the actual tune after hearing it, or coincidentally created the very similar tune used as the fugal theme.<\/p>\n

Here is Bach’s fugue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Anthems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A new commandment<\/em>, Thomas Tallis<\/p>\n

A new commandment give I unto you, saith the Lord, that ye love together, as I have loved you, that even so ye love one another. By this shall every man know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.<\/p>\n

Here are three voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Little is known about Thomas Tallis’s early life, but there seems to be agreement that he was born in the early 16th century, toward the close of the reign of Henry VII. Little is also known about Tallis’s childhood and his significance with music at that age. However, there are suggestions that he was a Child (boy chorister) of the Chapel Royal, St. James’ Palace, the same singing establishment which he later joined as a Gentleman. His first known musical appointment was in 1532, as organist of Dover Priory (now Dover College), a Benedictine priory in Kent. His career took him to London, then (probably in the autumn of 1538) to Waltham Abbey, a large Augustinian monastery in Essex which was dissolved in 1540. Tallis was paid off and also acquired a volume and preserved it; one of the treatises in it, by Leonel Power, prohibits consecutive unisons, fifths, and octaves.<\/p>\n

Tallis’s next post was at Canterbury Cathedral. He was next sent to Court as Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1543 (which later became a Protestant establishment), where he composed and performed for Henry VIII,[9] Edward VI (1547\u20131553), Queen Mary (1553\u20131558), and Queen Elizabeth I (1558 until Tallis died in 1585). Throughout his service to successive monarchs as organist and composer, Tallis avoided the religious controversies that raged around him, though, like William Byrd, he stayed an “unreformed Roman Catholic.” Tallis was capable of switching the style of his compositions to suit the different monarchs’ vastly different demands. Among other important composers of the time, including Christopher Tye and Robert White, Tallis stood out. Walker observes, “He had more versatility of style than either, and his general handling of his material was more consistently easy and certain.” Tallis was also a teacher, not only of William Byrd, but also of Elway Bevin, an organist of Bristol Cathedral, and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.<\/p>\n

Tallis married around 1552; his wife, Joan, outlived him by four years. They apparently had no children. Late in his life he lived in Greenwich, possibly close to the royal palace: a local tradition holds that he lived on Stockwell Street.<\/p>\n

Queen Mary granted Tallis a lease on a manor in Kent that provided a comfortable annual income. In 1575, Queen Elizabeth granted to him and William Byrd a 21-year monopoly for polyphonic music and a patent to print and publish music, which was one of the first arrangements of that type in the country. Tallis’s monopoly covered ‘set songe or songes in parts’, and he composed in English, Latin, French, Italian, or other tongues as long as they served for music in the Church or chamber. Tallis had exclusive rights to print any music, in any language. He and William Byrd were the only ones allowed to use the paper that was used in printing music. Tallis and Byrd used their monopoly to produce Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur<\/em> in 1575, but the collection did not sell well and they appealed to Queen Elizabeth for her support. People were naturally wary of their new publications, and it certainly did not help their case that they were both avowed Roman Catholics. Not only that, they were strictly forbidden to sell any imported music. “We straightly by the same forbid…to be brought out of any forren Realmes…any songe or songes made and printed in any foreen countrie.” Also, Byrd and Tallis were not given “the rights to music type fonts, printing patents were not under their command, and they didn’t actually own a printing press.”<\/p>\n

Tallis retained respect during a succession of opposing religious movements and deflected the violence that claimed Catholics and Protestants alike. He\u00a0died peacefully in his house in Greenwich in November 1585.<\/p>\n

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Ubi caritas<\/em>, Maurice\u00a0 Durufl\u00e9<\/p>\n

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.<\/p>\n

Where charity and love are, God is there. Christ’s love has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Let us fear, and let us love the living God. And may we love each other with a sincere heart.<\/p>\n

Here is the King’s College Choir, Cambridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maurice Durufl\u00e9’s choral setting makes use of the Gregorian melody, using only the words of the refrain and the first stanza.<\/p>\n

Ubi caritas<\/em> is a hymn of the Western Church, long used as one of the antiphons for the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. The Gregorian melody was composed sometime between the fourth and tenth centuries, though some scholars believe the text dates from early Christian gatherings before the formalization of the Mass. It is usually sung at Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and on Holy Thursday evening at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper.<\/p>\n

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
\nCongregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
\nExsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur.
\nTimeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
\nEt ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
\nUbi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
\nSimul ergo cum in unum congregamur:
\nNe nos mente dividamur, caveamus.
\nCessent iurgia maligna, cessent lites.
\nEt in medio nostri sit Christus Deus.
\nUbi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
\nSimul quoque cum beatis videamus,
\nGlorianter vultum tuum, Christe Deus:
\nGaudium quod est immensum, atque probum,
\nSaecula per infinita saeculorum. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Maurice\u00a0Durufl\u00e9 was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902. He became a chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School from 1912 to 1918, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling, a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant. The choral plainsong tradition at Rouen became a strong and lasting influence. At age 17, upon moving to Paris, he took private organ lessons with Charles Tournemire, whom he assisted at Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris until 1927. In 1920 Durufl\u00e9 entered the Conservatoire de Paris, eventually graduating with first prizes in organ with Eug\u00e8ne Gigout (1922), harmony with Jean Gallon (1924), fugue with Georges Caussade (1924), piano accompaniment with C\u00e9sar Abel Estyle (1926) and composition with Paul Dukas (1928).<\/p>\n

In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame. Durufl\u00e9 and Vierne remained lifelong friends, and Durufl\u00e9 was at Vierne’s side acting as assistant when Vierne died at the console of the Notre-Dame organ on 2 June 1937, even though Durufl\u00e9 had become titular organist of St-\u00c9tienne-du-Mont in Paris in 1929, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1930 he won a prize for his “Pr\u00e9lude, adagio et choral vari\u00e9 sur le “Veni Creator”, and in 1936 he won the Prix Blumenthal. In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto<\/em> (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part. In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked until 1970; among his pupils were Pierre Cochereau, Jean Guillou and Marie-Claire Alain.<\/p>\n

In 1947 he completed probably the most famous of his few pieces: the Requiem op. 9, for soloists, choir, organ, and orchestra. He had begun composing the work in 1941, following a commission from the Vichy regime. Also in 1947, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-\u00c9tienne-du-Mont. They married on 15 September 1953. (Durufl\u00e9’s first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, in 1932, ended in civil divorce in 1947 and was declared null by the Vatican on 23 June 1953.) The couple became a famous and popular organ duo, going on tour together several times throughout the sixties and early seventies.<\/p>\n

He was made a Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur in 1954. He was promoted to an Officier de la Legion d’honneur in 1966.
\nDurufl\u00e9 suffered severe injuries in a car accident on 29 May 1975, and as a result he gave up performing; indeed he was largely confined to his apartment, leaving the service at St-\u00c9tienne-du-Mont to his wife Marie-Madeleine (who was also injured in the accident). He died in Louveciennes (near Paris) in 1986, aged 84.<\/p>\n

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