Music Suggestions
The Second Sunday of Lent (B)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Tibi dixit cor meum [Graduale Romanum, p.88]
2. Tibi dixit cor meum [Gregorian Missal, p.246]
3. Reminiscere miserationum [Graduale Romanum, p.81]
4. Reminiscere miserationum [Gregorian Missal, p.247]
5. Reminiscere miserationum (Carlo Gesualdo)
6. Assumpsit Iesus [Graduale simplex, p.288]
7. My heart declared to you [Simple English Propers, p.63 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
8. My heart has prompted me [Simple Choral Gradual, p.51 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
9. Remember your mercies, Lord [Simple English Propers, p.64 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
10. Remember your mercies, Lord [Simple Choral Gradual, p.50 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
11. My Heart Declared to You, O Lord [tune: Breslau] from Introit Hymns #16 (Christoph Tietze)
12. Lenten Introits for Choir and Congregation (Richard Rice)
13. Mass Propers for Lent (Gary Penkala)
14. Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Richard Farrant, John Wall Callcott))
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. Sciant gentes [Graduale Romanum, p.88]
2. Sciant gentes [Gregorian Missal, p.248]
3. Miserere nostri Domine [Graduale simplex, p.98]
4. Miserere nostri Domine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ascanio Trombetti)
5. Common Psalms for Schools & Parishes (Thomas Cosley)
Tract (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Commovisti Domine [Graduale Romanum, p.89]
2. Commovisti Domine [Gregorian Missal, p.249]
3. Non in solo pane [Graduale simplex, p.99]
4. Qui confidunt [Graduale simplex, p.99]
5. Variety, without Method (William Billings)
Offertory:
1. Meditabor in mandatis tuis [Graduale Romanum, p.356]
2. Meditabor in mandatis tuis [Gregorian Missal, p.250]
3. Meditabor in mandatis tuis (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, Franz Xaver Witt)
4. Faciamus hic [Graduale simplex, p.291]
5. I shall meditate upon your commandments [Simple English Propers, p.65 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
6. I will worship your commands [Simple Choral Gradual, p.52 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Mass Propers for Lent (Gary Penkala)
Communion:
1. Visionem quam vidistis [Graduale Romanum, p.59]
2. Visionem quam vidistis [Gregorian Missal, p.252]
3. Visionem quam vidistis [Graduale simplex, p.292]
4. Tell no one about the vision you have seen [Simple English Propers, p.66 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
5. This is my Son, my beloved [Simple Choral Gradual, p.53 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
6. Mass Propers for Lent (Gary Penkala)
Mass settings:
1. Latin Chant Mass XVII (Adventus et Quadragesimae)
2. Mass of Saint Agnes (B. Andrew Mills)
3. Missa Deus Genitor alme (Harry McMurray)
4. Wondrous Love: A Mass for Lent (J. William Greene)

Other liturgical music

Chant Booklet, Volume 4 (ed. Chris Bord) with chant Mass for Lent
Common Psalms for Schools & Parishes (Thomas Cosley)
Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons (Gary Penkala)
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
Gregorian Missal [Solesmes edition]
Search Me, Lord (Alex Hill)
Universal Music for Morning Prayer (Gary Penkala)
Universal Music for Evening Prayer (Gary Penkala)
You Will Not Be Strangers Music for the Dismissal Rite (Alex Hill)

Hymns

Before Thy Throne, O God, We Kneel (CH #600)
Christ upon the Mountain Peak (WIII #701, CD #820)
Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies (HPSC #132, CH #424, EH #153)
How Good, Lord, to Be Here (HH #74, WIII #700)
I Lift My Eyes to You, O Lord (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
O Lord of Light, by Love Inclined (CD #819)
O Wondrous Type! O Vision Fair! (HH #77, HPSC #267, CH #512, EH #119)
The Glory of These Forty Days (AH #363, CBW #581, HH #72, HPSC #319, WIII #422, SMH #559)
Tis Good, Lord, to Be Here (WIII #700, HH #74, CH #518, CHB #100, SMH #578)
What Wondrous Love Is This? (CD #822, WIII #600, HH #95, PMB #157, ICEL #164, CH #530, HH #95, SMH #607)

AH = The Adoremus Hymnal, Ignatius Press

CBW = Catholic Book of Worship II / Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

CD = Cantate Domino / Hymnal Supplement, GIA Publications, Inc.

CH = The Collegeville Hymnal, The Liturgical Press

CHB = The Catholic Hymn Book [London Oratory], Gracewing Publishers

EH = The Hymnal 1940 (Episcopal), used by many Anglican Use Roman Catholic parishes

HH = Hymnal of the Hours, GIA Publications, Inc.

HPSC = Hymns, Psalms & Spiritual Canticles, out of print but excellent

ICEL = ICEL Resource Collection, GIA Publications, Inc.

PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.

SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN

WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.

Choral Music

Abraham and Isaac (Giovanni Capello) [Abingdon]
Agnus Dei (Casciolini)
Anima Christi (Calvert Shenk)
Ave verum corpus (W.A. Mozart)
Cast Thy Burden from Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn)
Continue, Lord, to Hear My Voice (Richard Garbett)
Credidi (Nicola Porpora) [Novello]
Dominus illuminatio mea (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
Ductus est Jesus (Francisco Guerrero)
Et post dies sex (Francisco Guerrero)
If God Be For Us (Melchior Franck) [GIA Publications]
In illo tempore assumpsit Jesus Petrum (Francesco Soriano)
Jesus, Sun of Life, My Splendor (G.F. Handel)
Kyrie from Messe cum jubilo (Maurice Duruflé)
Miserere mei Domine (Calvert Shenk)
Psalm 130 (Paul Manz)
Remember Your Love for Me, O God (Eugene Englert)
Reminiscere (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Lent II [Liber usualis, p.545]
The Song of Christ's Glory (Alan Smith)
Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs (R. Evan Copley)
Transfiguration (Alan Hovhaness) [Peters]

Organ Music

Rubrics indicate that the organ remain silent during Lent, except on Laetare Sunday or on other solemnities or festive days or at any time to accompany singing. Hence organ preludes and postludes should not be played (except on Laetare Sunday). Music for non-liturgical services might be chosen from the following:

Ah, Dearest Jesus (Wilbur Held) from A Suite of Passion Hymn Settings [Concordia 97-4843]
Versets for the Kyrie from Messa della domenica (Girolamo Frescobaldi)
Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbuchlein

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

The Transfiguration event dominates today's liturgy. After last week's warning of the inevitable struggle with evil (the Temptation of Christ), the Church today asks us to meditate on the glories which are ours if we but persevere and remain faithful to God and his Christ. A touch of "glory" should invade our music today.

Music SuggestionsThe Second Sunday of Lent (B)