Tempus per Annum is a project to write a cycle of motets for the church's year based on the texts of the Latin introits for each Sunday and major feast. The motets are being written in parallel Latin and English versions. The first two volumes, motets for Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide, Whit Sunday and Trinity Sunday, have already been issued. Volume 3, motets for the first 18 Sundays in Ordinary Time, will be available from mid-August 2011. Each motet is available separately at a cost of £1, please contact us directly for information about our group discounts.

Volume1: Advent and Christmastide

Volume2: Lent, Eastertide, Ascencion, Whit and Trinity Sunday

Volume3: Ordinary Time (part 1)

Tempus per Annum - advent motets, recorded live in 2005 by the eight:fifteen vocal ensemble, conductor Malcolm Cottle.
010001Volume 1: Advent and Christmastide, Latin Edition £12.00
011001Volume 1: Advent and Christmastide, English Edition £12.00
Advent
1.1st Sunday in AdventAd te levavi £1
To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: in thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed. Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
Show, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.
music
2.2nd Sunday in AdventPopulus Sion£1
People of Sion, behold the Lord shall come to save the nations: and the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard in the joy of your heart.
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Isaiah 40, Psalm 79
3.3rd Sunday in AdventGaudete£1
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men: for the Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing by prayer let your requests be made known to God.
Lord, thou hast blessed thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.
Philippians IV, Psalm 84
4.4th Sunday in AdventRorate Coeli£1
Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour.
The heavens show forth the glory of God: and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.
Isaiah 45, Psalm 18
Christmastide
5.Vigil of the Nativity of Our LordHodie Scietis£1
This day you shall know the the Lord will come, and save us: and in the morning you shall see His glory.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof: the world and all they that dwell therein. Exodus 16, Psalm 23
6.Nativity of Our Lord
1st Mass at Midnight
Dominus dixit ad me£1
The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten Thee. Why have the Gentiles raged and the people devised vain things?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against Christ himself.
Psalm 2
7.Nativity of Our Lord
2nd Mass at Dawn
Lux fulgebit£1
A light shall shine upon us this day: for the Lord is born to us: and He shall be called Wonderful, God, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the world to come: of whose reign there shall be no end.
The Lord hath reigned, He is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength and hath girded Himself.
Isaiah 9, Psalm 92
8.Nativity of Our Lord
3rd Mass during the day
Puer natus est nobis£1
A child is born to us and a Song is given to us: Whose government is upon His shoulder: and His Name shall be called, the Angel of Great Counsel.
Sing ye to the Lord a new song for he has done wonderful things.
Isaiah 9, Psalm 97
9.Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
The Holy Family
Deus in loco sancte suo£1
God in His holy place: God who maketh men of one mind to dwell in a house: He shall give power and strength to His people.
Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered: and let them that hate Him flee from before His face.
Psalm 67
10.January 1st
Mary Mother of God
Salve sancta parens£1
Hail, Holy Mother, thou who didst bring forth the King who rules heaven and earth for ever and ever.
My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the King.
Psalm 44, Psalm 2
11.2nd Sunday of the NativityDum medium silentium£1
While all things were in quiet silence and the night was in the midst of her course. Thy Almighty word, O Lord, came down from heaven from thy ro-yal throne.
The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the lord is clothed with strength and hath girded himself.
Wisdom
12.January 6th
Mass of the Epiphany
Ecce advenit dominator Dominus£1
Behold the Lord is Come
13.Sunday after January 6th
Baptism of Our Lord
Dilexistis justitiam£1
 

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