The Propers for this Sunday and all of the Psalms appointed for the Daily Office this week are displayed here. The Gradual for this Sunday is taken from the first two verses of Psalm 120. Many Latin-language settings of the text for this Gradual are designated as Ad Dominum cum tribularer, “To the Lord, in trouble.” The verb clamavi (“I called”) used in the opening verse is implied in the title of these works. To learn about and listen to three remarkable settings of this text, see the page for Psalm 120. This page introduces one of the cantatas J. S. Bach composed to be sung on the Second Sunday…
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Music for the Annunciation and for Passiontide
This Saturday, the Church will celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation. Then on Sunday, we enter the two-week period of Passiontide. Given the dramatic character and theological significance of both points of reference in the Church calendar, it is not surprising that there is an abundance of music tied to both commemorations. The following pages on this site may thus be of interest: On this page, you can hear an interview with baroque violinist Fiona Hughes about a remarkable set of violin sonatas inspired by the fifteen mysteries in the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary. Together, the works — composed by Heinrich Biber (1644–1704) — are known as the…