{"id":7804,"date":"2019-10-28T06:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2019-10-28T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:04:40","slug":"mount-calvary-music-all-saints-november-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-all-saints-november-1-2019-7804.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music: All Saints November 1, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mount Calvary Church<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A Roman Catholic Parish<\/em><\/p>\n

The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter<\/em><\/p>\n

Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue<\/p>\n

Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n

ALL SAINTS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

November 1, 2019<\/p>\n

7:00 P.M. Sung Mass<\/p>\n

Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster<\/em><\/p>\n

Midori Ataka,\u00a0<\/em>Organist<\/i><\/p>\n

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Missa Sancti Wilhelmi<\/em>, John Taverner<\/div>\n
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Not a great deal is known about the life of John Taverner. He is thought to have been born around 1490 in Lincolnshire, and is first documented in 1525 as a lay clerk at the collegiate church of Tattershall, a musical establishment of some importance. Later that year he was recommended by Bishop Longland of Lincoln for the new post of Informator (choirmaster) at Cardinal College (now Christ Church), Oxford, founded by Cardinal Wolsey and lavishly endowed with a choir of sixteen choristers and twelve \u2018clerkes skilled in polyphony\u2019. After overcoming an initial reluctance to leave the security of Tattershall, he accepted this prestigious invitation in time for the formal opening of the College in October 1526. Its glory proved to be short-lived, however, and after Wolsey\u2019s fall from power in 1529 its fortunes and finances soon began to decline. Taverner resigned the post in 1530. For the next seven years his whereabouts are unknown. Possibly he worked as a freelance musician in London, or perhaps he returned directly to Lincolnshire. From 1537 Taverner was in Boston, maybe employed as an agent for Thomas Cromwell, who had been commissioned by Henry VIII to carry out a survey and valuation of the lesser monasteries and friaries prior to their dissolution. There is no truth in the persistent claim that Taverner was a fanatical persecutor in carrying out these duties. The significance of the often-quoted note in the 1583 edition of Foxe\u2019s\u00a0Acts and Monuments<\/i>\u00a0that Taverner came \u2018to repent him very much that he had made songs to popish ditties in the time of his blindness\u2019 may well have been exaggerated; Foxe, an ardent Protestant, was writing some forty years after the composer\u2019s death, and the term \u2018popish ditties\u2019 remains open to interpretation. On the contrary, there is documentary evidence that Taverner had genuine concern for the welfare of the monks and friars. The assumption that he ceased to compose after leaving Oxford is based on speculation, since a proportion of his output has probably been lost and what has survived is not always easy to date.Taverner died in 1545 and was buried beneath the famous \u2018stump\u2019 of Boston church.<\/p>\n

The Mass is scored for five voices, within which Taverner makes effective use of contrasting high and low groups. Simple and clear textures, and extensive use of imitation, combine to create a decidedly more \u2018modern\u2019 music than is found in his large-scale and elaborate six-voice masses.\u00a0 The Sanctus-Benedictus<\/a> and Agnus Dei are given melismatic treatment.\u00a0 Taverner achieves a marvellous sense of climax through his favourite device of melodic sequence in the Osanna of the Sanctus.<\/p>\n

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Anthems<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Justorum animae<\/a>, William Byrd (1540-1623)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt, et non tanget illos tormentum mortis. Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, illi autem sunt in pace.<\/em><\/div>\n
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The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die; but they are in peace.<\/em><\/div>\n
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The English Renaissance composer produced sacred music for use in Anglican services, although he became a Roman Catholic in later life and wrote Catholic sacred music as well. His serene and beautiful setting of “Justorum animae” comes from the biblical Book of Wisdom. The line ‘Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt’ (‘The souls of the just are in the hand of God) would have been a source of solace for devout believers.<\/div>\n
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O quam gloriosum<\/a>, William Byrd (1540-1623)<\/span><\/p>\n

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O quam gloriosum est regnum, in quo cum Christo gaudent omnes sancti, amicti stolis albis sequuntur Agnum quocunque ierit, laudantes Deum et dicentes: Benedictio et claritas et sapientia et gratiarum actio, honor, virtus et fortitudo Deo nostro in saecula saeculorum. Amen.<\/em><\/div>\n
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O how glorious is the kingdom wherein all the Saints rejoice with Christ; arrayed in white robes they follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, praising God and saying: Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, honour and power and strength, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Hymns<\/strong><\/div>\n
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#130 Who are these like stars appearing (ALL SAINTS) <\/em><\/strong>is by Heinrich Theobald Schenk (1656-1727), translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox (1812-1897).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The first two verses of the hymn are a description of the saints arrayed before God\u2019s throne, asking the question: who are they? Verse three begins to answer the question. So verse four is an answer to the question of who are the saints? What is wonderful about verse four is that it describes people who do not simply submit to God\u2019s will: \u201cwho in prayer full oft have striven with the God they glorified.\u201d In other words, their prayer has often been an intense struggle with God. It\u2019s a powerful description of one aspect of a devout Christian life. Like Jacob, we often wrestle with God about His seeming absence in our anguish; Jesus too cried \u201cmy God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the\u00a0Wakefield Cathedral Choi<\/a>r.<\/p>\n

#585 Jerusalem, my happy home<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>has a complicated history. It\u00a0may\u00a0<\/em>have been written by a 16th<\/sup>\u00a0century Catholic priest \u201cF. B. P\u201d (\u00bfFrancis Baker Porter?) imprisoned in the Tower and it\u00a0may<\/em>\u00a0be based on\u00a0The Meditations of St. Augustine<\/em>. It exists in several versions; the one we use was said to be the favorite hymn of Elizabeth Ann Seton.As adults, we know we live in a vale of tears: the disappointments of life, the sickness and death of friends and family, the destruction that evil works in God\u2019s creation. This world as it now exists is not our home, which we will find in the transfigured world of the New Creation. The disharmony of the present age will be replaced by the harmony of heaven, symbolized by music, the new song,\u00a0canticum novum<\/em>, that we will forever sing.<\/p>\n

LAND OF REST is an American folk tune with roots in the ballads of northern England and Scotland. It was known throughout the Appalachians; a shape-note version of the tune was published in\u00a0The Sacred Harp<\/em>\u00a0(1844).<\/p>\n

#126 For all the saints<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is by the Anglican bishop William Walsham How (1823\u20141897), who was a great friend of the poor of his diocese, and was known variously as \u2018the children\u2019s bishop\u2019, \u2018the poor man\u2019s bishop\u2019 and \u2018the omnibus bishop\u2019 (the last referring to his preferred means of travel about his diocese).<\/p>\n

This hymn derives much of its power from its ability to capture the spirit of the Church Militant here on earth, using imagery from the book of Revelation. Vaughan Williams composed the tune SINE NOMINE (\u2018without a name\u2019) for this hymn. It has been suggested that the name of the tune refers to the countless number of saints who are not remembered by name but who are part of the \u2018glorious company\u2019.<\/p>\n

Here is the\u00a0St. Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mount Calvary Church A Roman Catholic Parish The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue Baltimore, Maryland ALL SAINTS November 1, 2019 7:00 P.M. Sung Mass Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster Midori Ataka,\u00a0Organist ___________________ Common Missa Sancti Wilhelmi, John Taverner Not a great deal is known about the life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7811,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}