Choral Eucharist

Sunday, October 13, 2013
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The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

Almighty and everlasting God, who in Christ hast revealed thy glory among the nations: Preserve the works of thy mercy, that thy Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of thy Name; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (Proper 24)


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11:00 a.m.

Included in this Choral Eucharist are hymns sung by the congregation and choir, additional music sung exclusively by the choir, lessons, prayers, a sermon, and a Rite I Mass. All baptized Christians are welcome to receive Holy Communion. Details of the service may be seen in the leaflet, which is posted at the bottom of this page, where you will also find links to the webcast during and after the service.

Music Notes: Born in Nuremberg, Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612) went to study in Venice at the age of twenty-two and there met Andrea Gabrieli, the Organist of St Mark’s Basilica, and his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli. The Missa octo vocum was first heard in 1599 whilst Hassler was a composer and organist in the service of Octavian II Fugger of Augsburg (who had not only granted the composer the privilege of copyright of his works but had also ennobled him). A Protestant himself, Hassler’s tendency towards polychoral compositions (i.e. music composed for different groups of singers such as the Missa octo vocum, in which the eight voices are divided into two choirs) is clearly a product of his encounters with the Venetian school of composers in Venice, yet his concern with structure and formal balance is influenced by Orlandus Lassus and the followers of the Netherlands school. Hassler’s primary concern, however, was with beauty of sound and this Mass is evidence of that with its supreme balance of lyricism and harmonic strength. Such a piece alone seems to merit the epitaph given to Hassler by the people of Nuremberg ‘Musicus inter Germanos sua aetate summus.‘


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