Offertory

The offertory (from Latin offerre, present ') is a liturgical song for offertory in the Mass. During the offertory the gifts of bread and wine are brought to the altar and gathered the collection. This is followed by the offertory, the sink and the prayer over the gifts.

The offertory part of the proprium, so the changing of the date or time in the church year texts of the Mass. It is a Latin antiphon to the originally one psalm was recited to accompany the procession to the offertory of the Schola. In Masses in the local language a song is sung to the gifts Brin narrowing at this point often.

In musical literature emerged Offertories as choral or instrumental accompaniment the offertory.

Significant offertories

Choir

• Orlando di Lasso, Cantiones Sacrae (1582 or 1585 );
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Offertoria totius anni ( 1593)

Choir, organ, trumpets and community

• Ralph Vaughan Williams, all people did on earth do dwell ( The Old 100th ), Offertory at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Organ

• Louis Lefébure - Wely, several Offertoire inter alia, in the collection L' Organiste modernity.
• Jean Langlais, Deux Offertoires pour tous les temps (1943 )