Merry Christmas (2013)!
  • jpal
    Posts: 365
    Prelude
    Puer natus chant
    O Little Town (FOREST GREEN)
    In The Bleak Midwinter (Darke)
    Cantique de Noel
    Guadete Christus est natus
    Fantasia on Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams)
    Once In Royal David's City

    Proclamation at midnight

    Mass
    O Come, All Ye Faithful
    Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Communio from GR
    Missa de Angelis
    Offertory: Joy To The World
    Communion motet: O Magnum Mysterium (Garau)
    Communion hymns: Of The Father's Love Begotten, Silent Night
    Exit: Alma Redemptoris Mater, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Byrd Mass for 3 Voices
    Victoria O Magnum Mysterium

    -- assuming all goes well.

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  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    Chris,
    In Christ, it is presumed that "all goes well," even in California!
    It'a kinda a twelve step thing, "Let go, let God."
    The Victoria is hallowed. It was the first piece I deigned to challenge my first high school concert choir to master, as they erroneously thought they were already "Da Bomb."
    Thanked by 1jpal
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,985
    Pre-mass
    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Elizabeth Poston
    Of the Father's Love Begotten - Paul Wohlgemuth
    The Infant King - Evelyn Larter
    While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night - Louise Wyman
    It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (bass solo) - Richard S. Willis
    Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light - J.S. Bach
    O Holy Night - Alolphe Adam
    Organ Prelude: Noel En Duo - Charpentier

    Mass
    Entrance Hymn: O Come, All Ye Faithful
    ICEL Missal Chants
    Preparation: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    Communion Hymns: O Little Town of Bethlehem & Silent Night
    Recessional Hymn: Joy to the World
    Organ Postlude: Herald March - Mark Thewes

    Later edit addition - I didn't put the location. This was at Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Knoxville, TN.
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  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 946
    Pre-Mass (in addition to congregational carols):

    Adam lay Ybounden - Peter Warlock
    What Sweeter Music - John Rutter
    Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - arr. Richard Shephard (can't recommend enough)
    On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol) - arr. Vaughan Williams
    Puer Natus in Bethlehem - arr. Peter Latona
    In Dulci Jubilo (organ & brass quartet) - arr. Michele Howard, a local.

    Mass:

    Entrance Antiphon - Missal, Meinrad tone
    Entrance Hymn - O Come, All Ye Faithful (w/brass)
    Mass Ordinary - Storrington Mass (the "Archdiocesan Mass")
    Offertory - Verbum caro factum est (Hans Leo Hassler)
    Communion Antiphon - Missal, Meinrad Tone
    Communion 1 - Silent Night
    Communion 2 - Tollite Hostias (Camille Saint-Saens)
    Recessional - Joy to the World (arr. Drummond-Wolf, w/brass)
    Organ Postlude - Postlude on "Jesu Redemptor Omnium" (Jonathan Hellerman)
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  • futurefatherz
    Posts: 36
    Gosh, mine doesn't seem anywhere near as fancy. I DID NOT PLAN THIS MUSIC, okay?
    Anyway, the recently-consummated Noon Mass for Christmas Day had music as follows:

    Entrance Hymn: O Come, All Ye Faithful
    Mass Ordinary: Gloria from Mass VIII (Accompanied on organ... ugh), the rest from Mass of Christ the Savior
    Offertory: O Little Town of Bethlehem
    Communion 1: O Holy Night
    Communion 2: Silent Night
    Recessional: Joy to the World

    Is it just me, or did the liturgist who planned this lineup get mixed up between 12:00 Midnight and 12:00 noon?
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  • Daniel Bennett PageDaniel Bennett Page
    Posts: 837
    Music for Midnight Mass (December 25, 2013)
    Mount Calvary Church (Roman Catholic, Anglican Use)
    Baltimore, Maryland

    Prelude Music
    Carols:
    O little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green)
    What child is this (Greensleeves)
    Motet: Lullaby Carol (Shaw; words: F Chesterton)
    Organ: Greensleeves (Purvis)
    Organ: In dulci jubilo (Dupre)
    Proclamation of Christmas (Roman Martyrology)

    Procession and Blessing of the Creche
    Hymns:
    O come, all ye faithful (Adeste fideles)
    Silent night (Holy Night)
    Angels we have heard on high (Gloria)

    Solemn High Mass (Ordinariate liturgy)
    Ordinary: Missa O magnus mysterium (Victoria)
    Propers: Gregorian (Burgess/Palmer)
    Motet: How far is it to Bethlehem? (Shaw; text: F Chesterton)
    Motet: I sing of a maiden (Patrick Hadley)
    Organ:
    Il est un petit L'ange (Noel Suisse) (Balbastre)
    Hymns at Mass:
    While shepherds watched their flocks (Winchester Old)
    Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,810
    St. David of Wales, Richmond CA

    Midnight Mass

    Wexford Carol (Rutter)
    Creator of the Stars of night
    While by my Sheep (aka My Sheep were grazing)
    God rest ye merry gentlemen
    Good King Wencelsaus (Stainer)
    Good Christians all rejoice
    In dulci jubilo (Buxtehude)

    proclamation
    Adeste fideles/O come all ye faithful
    Kyrie XVIIc
    Gloria VIII de angelis
    Of the Father's love begotten
    Sanctus & Agnus XVII
    In splendoribus/O little town/Silent night
    Hark the herald angels sing

    Christmas Day 8:30

    Puer natus (Amer. Grad)
    Kyrie XVIIc
    Gloria VIII de angelis
    Tui sunt caeli
    Sanctus & Agnus XVII
    Viderunt omnes/O little town/Of the Father's love
    Joy to the world

    Christmas Day 11:00

    O thou that tellest (Messiah)
    Angels we have heard on high
    Kyrie XVIIc
    Gloria VIII de angelis
    For unto us (Messiah)
    Sanctus & Agnus XVII
    Viderunt omnes/O little town/Of the Father's love
    Joy to the world
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  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    SS. Simon and Jude, Cathedral of Phoenix - televised Pontifical Mass during the Night
    Preludes: Kyrie de Noel (Franck), Joy to the World, Ring Christmas Bells, Silent Night
    Proclamation of the Birth of Christ (Aristotle)
    Dominus Dixit
    Kyrie and Gloria VIII
    Psalm (Aristotle), Alleluia (Fr. Weber)
    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Dixit Maria (Hassler)
    Sanctus and Agnus Dei VIII
    In Splendoribus, Away in a Manger, O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
    Angels We Have Heard on High
    Sortie pour Noel (Franck)
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  • redsox1
    Posts: 217
    Prelude:

    The Angel Gabriel - Lovelace
    Magnificat - Vivaldi (with orchestra)
    Gloria (K. 220)-Mozart
    Proclamation

    Mass:

    Adeste Fideles -Willcocks
    Joy to the World - arr. Rutter
    A Sound of Angels-Tye
    Infant Holy Infant Lowly - arr. Willberg
    Mendelssohn - Willcocks
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    St.Mary's Visalia, CA, Mass at Midnight
    Preludial: WHAT SWEETER MUSIC (cantata) Mark Hayes
    Proclamation: Latin/English in alternatim
    Ent. Carol: O come, all ye faithful/Adeste fidelis
    ICEL Kyrie (Greek)/Gloria with ison/organ; arr. Culbreth
    Responsorial: R&A
    Alleluia VI
    Offertory Carol: It came upon the midnight clear
    THAXTED Acclamations (Msgr. Mancini/Culbreth arr.)
    Communio: SEP, Bartlett
    Carols:
    Once in royal David's city
    Infant Holy, infant lowly
    Silent Night 1-3 accompanied, repeat 1 a capella at pianissimo
    Dismissal: Joy to the world

    Choirs had morning off!
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  • SalieriSalieri
    Posts: 3,177
    Our Lady of Czestochowa, Turners Falls, MA

    Prelude:

    Once in Royal - Cleobury (Novello)
    And there were shepherds/Break forth, O beauteous - JSB
    Still, still, still - arr. Ledger
    A Christmas Round - John Tavener
    Jezus malusienki - arr. ?
    Maria Wiegenlied - Reger
    Sing, O sing, this blessed morn - Giffen
    A Christmas Hymn - Albert, Prince of S.-C. & G.
    Personent Hodie - arr. Holst
    Resonet in Laudibus - arr. Gaida
    Wsrod nocnej ciszy -
    Introit for Midnight Mass - adapt Columba Kelly

    Mass:

    W zlobie lezy/Infant holy - arr. Gaida
    Lulajze Jezuniu
    Cicha noc, Silent night
    Kyrie & Gloria VIII
    Viderunt omnes - Leonin
    Alleluia - Graduale Romanum
    Offertory - SEP
    Hymn: Good Christian men rejoice - arr. Gesius/Praetorius/Bach
    Sanctus & Agnus - Mass of St. Teresa, Willan
    Communion - SEP
    Carol: Bracia patrzie jeno - arr. Sojka
    Hymn: Lo! how a rose
    Carol: Przybiezeli do Betlejem
    Organ: Vom himmel hoch - Pachelbel
    Rec. Hymn: Joy to the World - Rutter
    Organ: In dulci Jubilo - JSB
    " " : Noel X - Daquin
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  • donr
    Posts: 971
    Our Lady of Grace - Maricopa, AZ - Mass at Midnight

    Prelude:
    Mary Did You Know
    Ukrainian Bell Carol
    Ave Maria (Schubert)
    Mary You Said Yes (Crespo)
    Away in a Manger (arr. Stauff)
    The First Noel
    It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (arr Willis)
    Deck the Hall
    O Little Town of Bethlehem
    Angels We Have Heard on High
    Hodie Christus Natus Est
    Low How a Rose E'er Blooming (arr Preaetorius)
    Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

    Mass:
    Solemn Proclamation
    Entrance Hymn: 1st Verse of O Come, All Ye Faithful
    Entrance Antiphon: The Lord Said to Me: You are My Son - LCM (Bartlett) during prayer over crib.
    2nd - 4th Verse of O Come, All Ye Faithful
    Mass of Christ the Savior
    Responsorial Psalm: R&A
    Alleluia - Liber Usualis - Christmas Midnight Mass Alleluia
    Alleluia - R&A
    Offertory Antiphon - LCM (Bartlett)
    Offertory Hymn, - For Unto Us A Child is Born (Hinze 2008), O Little Town of Bethlehem
    Communion Antiphon - In the Splendor - LCM (Bartlett) all verses
    Communion Hymns - Ave Maria (Ramiro Real), What Child is This, Silent Night (arr Reinecke).
    Recessional: Joy to the World (arr. Mason)

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  • donr
    Posts: 971
    Question: Every year for the Gospel procession we sing the Alleluia while the deacon is being incensed and while he walks up to the Ambo. This takes quite a long while, so we repeat the Alleluia several times before and after the verse.
    This is the reason I have added the Alleluia found in the Liber Usualis in front of the Alleluia from Respond and Acclaim (OCP).
    What do you all do?
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,985
    We sing the Alleluia and he can get his arse in gear and get where he is supposed to be. LOL.
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  • Carl DCarl D
    Posts: 992
    During our prelude music for one Mass, the Parochial Vicar requested that he be able to chant Hodie Christus Natus Est between the other pieces. He explained to the congregation that it was one of his favorite memories from Seminary, and gave the translation. It was a beautiful addition.

    I wish the Schola was still at that parish; he'd be such an outstanding sponsor.
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    EF Sung Mass on Christmas morning at St. John's Cemetery Chapel, Middle Village, Queens, NY

    Before Mass:
    The Angel Gabriel
    In the Bleak Midwinter
    The Angels and the Shepherds (Trevor)
    Away In A Manger (Willcocks)
    Once in Royal David's City (Willcocks)
    Wexford Carol
    I Saw Three Ships (Willcocks)
    Omnis Mundus Iocundetur (Praetorius)
    O Little Town of Bethlehem (Forest Green)
    Silent Night

    Mass
    Entrance: Adeste Fideles (Willcocks)
    Offertory: O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
    Communion: Salve, Puerule (M.A. Charpentier/Rutter)
    Closing: Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Willcocks)
    Propers from the G.R.
    Missa de Angelis
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  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
    Posts: 1,738
    Merry Christmas, All!
    St. Anne's, San Diego (FSSP parish)

    Carols before mass
    The angel Gabriel
    Lo how a rose
    O little town
    The holly and the ivy
    In the bleak midwinter
    Away in a manger
    Silent night

    Entrance: O come all ye faithful/ adeste fildelis
    Ordinary- Missa "O magnum mysterium", Victoria
    Propers- GR
    Motets- Alma Redemptoris Mater, Palestrina
    O magnum mysterium, Victoria
    Final: Joy to the world

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  • nun_34nun_34
    Posts: 68
    Our Lady of Grace - CT

    Christmas Office of Readings
    Silent Night
    Christmas Proclamation

    Entrance: SEP
    Ordinary: Missa de Angelis
    Offertory: SEP (first time ever)
    Communion: SEP; O Holy Night
    Recesssional: Laetabundus, in an English metrical version
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  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
    Posts: 1,023
    Where did you find an English metrical version of Laetabundus? I'd love to pick that up.
  • nun_34nun_34
    Posts: 68
    Here is the version of the Laetabundus we've used for years. The tune is by Nicholas Gatty (1874-1946). I think one of our Sisters must have done the translation, but I'm not sure.

    (My apologies for the separate graphic files; this computer runs Windows 8 and I cannot figure out how to do anything, not even find Adobe Acrobat. Thank God for Alt+Ctrl+Del or I wouldn't be able to shut the machine down...)

    There is another version in The Summit Choirbook to the same melody but with all 12 verses, a more literal "translation from The Dominian Missal in Latin and English (1932) and from the version by John J. McLarney, O.P. (1904-1969)". I could post that too if you'd like? (I don't see a copyright on it.)
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  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
    Posts: 1,023
    Thank you. Pretty cool.
  • TeresaH
    Posts: 53
    Midnight Mass St. James, Washington,, IA
    Preludes: Mary did You Know (my objections were over-ruled; someone else sang it, not me or my choirs), Ave Maria (Giffen), Lo How A Rose, We Three Kings (that someone else again), O Come, O Come Emmanuel, Hark The Herold Angels, Away In A Manger, Adeste Fidelis, See Amid The Winter's Snow (old version from St. Gregory's),
    Mass: Entrance hymn O Come All Ye faithful, SEP Introit, Proclamation (priest), ICEL Chant Mass,
    Responsorial Psalm (JMO), Cardinal Pole Alleluia (JMO),
    Offertory: SCG Antiphon then Silent Night
    Communion: Weber Antiphon, What Child Is This, Of The Father's Love Begotten
    Closing Hymn: Joy To The World
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  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,789
    There is a metrical translation of Laetabundus (and all the other Dominican hymns / sequences) in 'Hymns of the Dominican Missal and Breviary, Aquinas Byrnes, 1943"

    1. Come, ye faithful,
    Loud exult, with joy exceeding,
    Alleluia!
    Monarchs’ Monarch,
    From a Virgin-womb proceeding,
    Mighty wonder!

    2. Angel of the Counsel here,
    Sun from star, He doth appear,
    Born of Maiden:
    Sun that never knoweth night,
    Star for ever gleaming bright,
    Lustrous ever.

    3. As a star his kindred ray,
    Mary doth her Child display,
    Like in nature
    Still undimmed the star shines on,
    And the Virgin bears a Son,
    Pure as ever.

    4. Lebanon his cedar tall
    To the hyssop of the wall
    Now conformeth:
    Word on high, He doth assume
    Human flesh in Mary’s womb,
    God incarnate.

    5. Though Isaias had foreshown,
    Though the Synagogue had known,
    Yet the truth she will not own,
    Blind remaining:
    If her prophets speak in vain,
    Let her heed a Gentile strain,
    And from mystic Sibyl gain
    Light in darkness.

    6. No longer then delay;
    Doubt not what legends say;
    Why be cast away,
    A race forlorn?
    Turn and this Child behold—
    That very Son, of old
    In God’s writ foretold,
    A Maid hath borne.

    During a quick search there seem to be a number of similar translations.
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  • SamuelDorlaque
    Posts: 318
    Saint Edward, Newark, CA Midnight Mass & Mass of the Day (OF Solemn High Mass)Midnight Prelude (11:30 PM)
    "O Little Town of Bethlehem" ... arr. R. Vaughan Williams
    "Ding Dong, Merrily on High" ... arr. C. Wood
    "In the Bleak Midwinter" ... Harold Darke
    "Break Forth! O Beauteous Heavenly Light" ... J. S. Bach
    "In Dulci Jubilo" ... Michael Praetorius
    KALENDA ... Sung by Father Keyes
    Procession to Creche: Adeste Fidelis ... arr. Sir David Willcocks
    Complete Gregorian proper: from Graduale Romanum.
    Ordinary: K, G, AD from "Missa Dies Sanctificatus" ... Palestrina
    Credo I and Sanctus VIII (Sung by All)
    Lessons & Gospel sung in English
    Motet after Offertorium: "Dies Sanctificatus" ... Palestrina
    Motet after Communio: "Sleeps Judea Fair" ... MacKinnon, "Alma Redemptoris Mater" ... Palestrina, followed by Hymn: "Silent Night"
    After "Ite missa est": Hymn in Procession: "Joy to the World"

    10:00 AM Mass of the Day (OF Solemn High Mass)
    (Much the same, with complete Gregorian Proper: Puer natus est)
    Motet after Communio: "The Glory of the Father" ... Egil Hovland
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  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,199
    St. Jame's Elizabethtown KY

    Prelude:
    Toccata for Organ and Brass Frescobaldi
    Hymn: O little Town of Bethlehem
    There is No Rose (Found here on the CMAA site, really wonderful work)
    Concerto in F Op. 9 No.3 for Flute and Oboe Albinoni
    (First mvmt. only)
    Hymn: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
    Videntes Stellam Poulenc
    The Wexford Carol

    Christmas Proclamation
    Hymn: Adestes Fideles
    Ordinary: Mass of St. Francis ( Duckworth) with Brass
    Offertorium: SEP
    Motet: Sir Christemas W. Mathias
    Comm: Gregorian In Splendoribus
    Strings: Church Sonata in D Mozart
    Hymn:Silent Night
    Rec: Hymn: Joy to the World
    Postlude: Noel Daquin

    Strings,Brass, flute,oboe and organ. A lot of fun......



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