5th Sunday after Easter 2024
Processional hymn: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven, 933
Recessional hymn: At the Lamb’s High Feast, 848
Kyriale: Mass I, 696; Credo III, 776
Offertory Antiphon: Benedicite Gentes, Orlandus Lassus
Communion Motet: Cantate Domino, Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743)
Orlandus Lassus published Benedicite Gentes in a compilation of Offertory Chants all set for four voices in 1585. The composition is entirely original rather than using the Gregorian melody as a foundation. However, the work is in the same melodic mode as the ancient melody.
The motet Cantate Domino is a setting of Psalm 149:1–2 by Baroque Italian composer Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743). The initial text of Sing to the Lord a new song is shared at the beginning of today’s alleluia verse which is taken from Psalm 97:1. Pitoni’s work, like much of late Baroque music, is tightly structured in small phrases with two main sections and follows the general format of “A-B-A.”, also called ternary form.
Orlandus Lassus (c.1532–1594) is known for the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school. He wrote over 2,000 works in Latin, French, Italian, and German both sacred and secular. Lassus along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria are the most influential composers of the late Renaissance.