Program for Choral Services
Music List for December 2019
Please note that music listed below may change without notice.
The hymn numbers refer to the New English Hymnal, unless otherwise noted.
December 1: Advent Sunday
10.00 a.m. High Mass
Service: Harold Darke, Communion Service in E
Communion: Besançon carol melody, arr. Barry Ferguson, People look East
Hymns: 14, 6, 13, 9
Postlude: Johann Sebastian Bach, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 661)
5.00 p.m. Advent Carol Service
Matins Responsory, adapted from a Nunc dimittis by G. P. da Palestrina
Advent Sequence (plainsong), Salus aeterna
Charles Wood (harm.), ’Twas in the year that King Uzziah died
William Byrd, Rorate caeli desuper
Herbert Howells, A spotless Rose
Orlando Gibbons, Hosanna to the Son of David
Vulpius, harm. J.S. Bach, The holy Son of God most high
Thomas Ravenscroft, Remember, O thou man
Anonymous, arr. O’Donnell, The Salutation
Philipp Nicolai, arr. Jacob Praetorius, Up! awake! from highest steeple
Hymns: 19, 343, 11, 12, 9
Postlude: J. S. Bach, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659)
December 8: Advent 2
10.00 a.m. High Mass
Service: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Aeterna Christi munera
Communion: Orlando Gibbons, This is the record of John
Hymns: 12, 407, 7, 5
Postlude: Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (BWV 684)
December 15: Advent 3 (Saint Hildegard Singers with the men of the All Saints’ Choir)
10.00 a.m. High Mass
Service: Antonio Lotti, Missa brevis
Communion: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Fuit homo missus a Deo
Hymns: 8 (Gonfalon Royal, no. 128ii), 13, 16, 466
Postlude: Jean Langlais, Prélude sur les Grands Jeux from Suite Française
December 22: Advent 4 (Men’s voices)
10.00 a.m. High Mass
Service: Antonio Lotti, Messa a tre voci
Communion: Jacob Handl, Ecce concipies
Hymns: Father eternal, 181 (2nd tune), 17, 11
Postlude: George Frideric Handel, Passacaille in G minor
7.30 p.m. Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
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