10th Sunday after Pentecost 2025
Processional hymn: O Sanctissima, 915
Recessional hymn: Hail, Holy Queen, 908
Kyriale: Mass XI, 740; Credo II, 772
Motet after Offertory: Surge Amica Mea, Rev. Giovanni Matteo Asola
Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina, Solemn Chant
The text of Surge, Amica Mea is taken from the Song of Solomon 2:14: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. O my dove, who is in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is beautiful. The setting by Rev. Giovanni Matteo Asola is for three voices and cleverly uses the text...secret places...to create a layered effect where the listener cannot distinguish when one voice leaves and another enters. At the climax of the work all the voices sing...let me hear your voice...together in major tones in a striking moment of text painting.
Rev. Giovanni Matteo Asola (c. 1532–1609) was ordained a parish priest in 1569 and held numerous music posts in Italy. In 1577 became maestro di cappella for Treviso Cathedral and subsequently moved to Venice directing at San Servio until his death. Despite living in Venice, Asola’s compositional style is closer to the Roman school, like that of G.P. Palestrina in contrast to Monteverdi or Gabrielli.