Music Suggestions
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (EF)
Liturgical Music
Official texts
- Introit:
- Signum magnum appáruit in cœlo [Graduale Romanum p.582-583]
- Signum magnum appáruit in cœlo [Gregorian Missal p.655]
- Signum magnum appáruit in cœlo (chant)
- Gradual:
- Audi Fília [Graduale Romanum p.583]
- Audi Fília [Gregorian Missal p.657]
- Audi Fília (chant)
- Alleluia:
- Assúmpta est [Liber usualis, p.1603]
- Assúmpta est [Graduale Romanum p.584]
- Assúmpta est [Gregorian Missal p. 658]
- Assúmpta est (chant)
- Assúmpta est by Anonymous (Gregorian chant)
- Offertory:
- Inimicítias ponam [Graduale Romanum p.584]
- Inimicítias ponam (chant)
- Communion:
- Beátam me dicent [Graduale Romanum p.584-585]
- Beátam me dicent [Gregorian Missal p.660]
- Beátam me dicent (chant)
- Beátam me dicent by various composers
- Mass settings:
- Mass III "Kyrie Deus sempiterne" [Liber usualis, p.22-25]
- Mass IX "Cum jubilo" [Liber usualis, p.40-43]
- Mass XV "Dominator Deus" [Liber usualis, p.56-59]
- Mass III "Kyrie Deus sempiterne" [Graduale Romanum, p.11-14* in back of book]
- Mass IX "Cum jubilo" [Graduale Romanum, p.32-35* in back of book]
- Mass XV "Dominator Deus" [Graduale Romanum, p.51-53* in back of book]
- Mass III "Kyrie Deus sempiterne"
- Mass IX "Cum jubilo"
- Mass XV "Dominator Deus"
Other liturgical music
- Asperges me [Liber usualis, p.11]
- Asperges me Graduale Romanum, p.707
- Asperges me Gregorian Missal (2010), p.84
- Asperges me Corpus Christi Watershed
Hymns
- Blessed Virgin Mother (HH #294)
- Canticle of Mary (CH #433, CBW #68, SMH #250)
- Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary (CHB #145, AH #544, SMH #278, VII #260)
- Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above (AH #530, CBW #610, CH #312, HPSC #170, ICEL #112, PMB #180, WIII #702, CHB #146, SMH #330, VII #261)
- O Christ, the World's Salvation (Dennis DiPaolo)
- O Glorious Lady Throned in Rest (CD #844)
- O Most Holy One (AH #542, CH #318, WIII #712, PMB #181, VII #369)
- Planted Like Seeds Our Bodies Wait the Sound from Hymns for the Liturgical Year (Kathleen Pluth)
- Sounds of Joy Have Put to Flight (AH #536)
- Star of Sea and Ocean (HH #298)
- Tell Out, My Soul, the Greatness of the Lord (HPSC #311, CD #846, CBW #638, CHB #264, WIII #534)
- Who Is She Ascends So High (CH #322, ICEL #111)
- 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.
- LCH = Lumen Christi Hymnal, Illuminare Publications
- PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.
- SEC = Saint Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal, Corpus Christi Watershed
- SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal – 4th Edition 2011, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN
- WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.
Choral Music
- Angelus (Christopher Garton-Zavesky)
- Assumpta est Maria (William Byrd, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Manoel Dias de Oliveira, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Peter Philips, Georg Prenner)
- Ave Maria (Arcadelt / Angelini)
- Ave Maria (Victoria / Angelini)
- Beata es, Virgo Maria (William Byrd, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Hans Leo Hassler, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Philippe Verdelot, Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Diffusa est gratia (William Byrd)
- Dulcissima Maria (Francisco Guerrero)
- Felix namque es (William Byrd, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, José Maurício Nunes Garcia)
- In Praise of the Virgin (Colin Brumby)
- Magnificat (Jacques Berthier) [GIA Publications]
- Magnificat (Ciro Grassi) [Saint Gregory Hymnal]
- Magnificat brevis (Gary Penkala)
- Mary, the Dawn (Justin Mulcahy) see Pius X Hymnal
- O gloriosa Virginum (R.E. Smith) [GIA Publications]
- O Lord, Arise (Thomas Weelkes) [Oxford]
- O quam tu pulchra es (Alessandro Grandi)
- Quasi cedrus (Francisco Guerrero)
- Salve Regina (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 3
- Tota pulchra es, Maria (J. William Greene)
- Tota pulchra es (Giulio Belli, John Forest, Heinrich Isaac, Clemens Morel, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, John Plummer, Hieronymus Praetorius, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Ludwig Senfl, Robert White)
- Vultum tuum (William Byrd, Josquin des Prez)
Organ Music
- Ave Maria from Two Chant Meditations for Organ (Kevin Waters SJ)
- Concordi lætitia from Two Chant Processionals (Kevin Waters SJ)
- Fanfare (Jean Mouret)
- Festive Processionals for Organ and Brass (Calvert Shenk)
- Fuga sopra Magnificat (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246]
- Hail, Holy Queen (Robert Hebble) [For the Masses - The Sacred Music Press]
- Improvisation on Salve Regina (Robert Hebble) [For the Masses - The Sacred Music Press]
- Mach's mit mir Gott (J.G. Walther, J.C. Kittel)
- Maestoso: Five Processionals (Calvert Shenk)
- Marian Antiphons (Marcel Dupré)
- Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
- Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (J.G. Walther) [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 - Oxford]
- Offertory from Messe basse (Camil van Hulse)
- Plein jeu from Magnificat (Jean François Dandrieu)
- Postlude on Sicilian Mariners (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, June 1986]
- Postlude on Sicilian Mariners from May Music (John Larkin)
- Prière a Notre Dame (Léon Boëlmann)
- Salve Regina (Sr. Teresine Fonder) [Twenty-six Miniatures]
- Salve Regina (R. Keldermans) [Consoliere V-2]
- Sortie on a Marian Hymn (Alexandre Guilmant)
- Toccata on Salve Regina (Hermann Schroeder) [Die Marianischen Antiphonen - Schott]
- Toccata on Salve Regina (Everett Titcomb) [H.W. Gray - St.Cec.Ser. 790]
- Variation to the Sicilian Hymn (Benjamin Carr) [A Century of Amercian Organ Music, Bk 1 - McAfee Music Corp]
Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.