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Happy New Year to all of you.
I wish you good health and glorious days.

The year 2016 was somewhat bumpy. It brought Brexit and Donald Trump. Mr Trump may not be a duly-elected President of the United States because Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in an American election.

Let us hope Mr Trump does not change what has been put into place radically. He does not have a clear mandate and countries need stability and continuity. Moreover, what happens in the United States affects the entire world.

A New Year is a beginning and I hope 2017 will bring us joy and peace.

I am inserting Mozart’s Laudate Dominum. It is one of the finest compositions ever.
(See Vesperæ sollenes de confessore, K. 339, Wikipedia)

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Madonna by Raphaël

Marian Hymnology: Antiphons, Canticles…

The following is a collection of various posts on the Virgin Mary. The music Mary has inspired is varied and a delight to music lovers. So are paintings of Mary who is called Theotokos in the Eastern Church.

In French, Antiphons are called antiennes and the “t” is pronounced as if it were a “c”. However, books containing antiennes are called Antiphonaires. There are no Marian anthems. An Anthemn is a different musical form. In fact, anthems resemble Catholic motets.

The four Marian Antiphons are sung during a certain period of the liturgical year. The Antiphon used at this particularly moment is the Alma Mater Redemptoris. On February 2, it will be the Ave Regina Cælorum. However, Marian liturgy is further divided into eight periods and 32 feast days.

first, of Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany, Pre-Lent, Lent, Easter Triduum, Eastertide, Ascensiontide
second, of some 32 feast days

I am not an expert on Mariology, but I have studied and still study liturgy as a musical form.

The Four Antiphons

During Canonical Hours, the Antiphon is a liturgical chant that precedes and follows a Psalm or a Canticle. In a Mass, it is also a chant to which a choir or the congregation respond with a refrain. It is therefore a call and response chant.

Alma Redemptoris Mater (Advent through February 2)
Ave Regina Cælorum (Presentation of the Lord through Good Friday)
Regina Cœli (Easter season)
Salve Regina (from first Vespers of Trinity Sunday until None of the Saturday before Advent)

The Four Canticles

Canticles are hymns sung during the Canonical Hours. Seven find their origin in the Old Testament and are sung at Lauds. Three, however, are contained in the Gospel according to Luke.