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
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."
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.
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)
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?
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)
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
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)
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
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
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)
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.)
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
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.
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
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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