11th Sunday after Pentecost 2024
Recessional Music: Carillon de Westminster, Opus 54, No. 6, Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
Kyriale: Mass XI, 740; Credo IV, 780
Offertory Antiphon: Exaltabo Te, Giovanni Croce (1557–1609)
Communion Motet: Cantate Domino, Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni
The Offertory Antiphon this week is sung chorally set by Giovanni Croce. The text is from Psalm 29:2-3: I will magnify thee, O Lord, for thou hast set me up: and not made my foes to triumph over me.O Lord my God, I cried unto thee: and thou hast healed me. Croce’s sets each line of text in short sections with pairs or trios of voices that are followed soon by any remaining voices. He also makes use of the harmonic minor scale which creates a more brighter mood as the melodies rise and darker as they descend.
The motet Cantate Domino is a setting of Psalm 149:1–2 by Baroque Italian composer Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni. 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.
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743) was an Italian vocalist, organist and composer. He studied voice from the age of five and became a maestro di cappella (choirmaster) at Santa Maria Maggiore, Monterotondo, a historic church near Rome by sixteen. Pitoni held director positions at many parishes in Rome and was a prominent church musician during the late Baroque era.