What's your dream Christmas lineup
  • Joseph_M
    Posts: 11
    1. If you had unlimited resources and talent etc., what would be your ultimate Christmas music lineup including 30 min of choral prelude plus a communion meditation piece?

    2. If you had a small parish budget, part-time director, plus volunteer choir, what would your above lineup look like?
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,794
    For no. 2 See here,
    https://stbedeschoirblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/midnight-mass/
    https://stbedeschoirblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/25/christmas-day/
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  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,518
    My dream might change from year to year, but this is what I'd like to do at the moment.

    1. Selections from Messiah prelude, then Missa Magnum Mysterium with its motet at Communion. Hark the Herald recessional followed by the Hallelujah Chorus.

    2. Proper chants, with Of the Father's at Offertory and The First Noel at Communion, followed by In Dulci Iubilo and Silent Night. Hark the Herald recessional followed by Bach's In Dulci Iubilo BWV 729.
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,410
    I do the Latin but with the melody for Of the Father’s Love Begotten that everyone loves.
  • vansensei
    Posts: 225
    1. Processional: Willcocks O Come All Ye Faithful
    Mass: Either The O Quam Gloriosum, O Magnum Mysterium from Victoria

    Gloria: Use the opening fanfare of the Gloria from the B Minor Mass and then probably Gloria VII

    Motets: O Magnum Mysterium either Victoria, Hyun Kook, or even Rex Admirabilis by Rodgers and Hammerstein (yes! that one from Sound of Music)
  • AnimaVocis
    Posts: 158
    (this is presuming full throated singing on any of the below from choir and/or congregation)

    1/2. Prelude (OF/EF):
    Quem Pastores Laudavere
    What Sweeter Music (Rutter)
    Es Ist Ein Ros' (alternating German and English- 1G, 1E, 2G, 2E, etc)
    A Spotless Rose (Howells)
    Personent Hodie
    Noel Suisse (Organ and Choral Alternatim)
    O Come All Ye Faithful (Willcox) or The First Nowell (Willcox)

    1a. (EF) Mass:
    Processional: Of the Father's Love Begotten
    Propers: Graduale
    Ordinary: Missa "Hodie Christus Natus Est" (Palestrina)
    Credo 4
    Motets: Quem Vidistis, Pastorem (Victoria), O Magnum (Victoria)
    Recessional: Puer Nobis Nascitur

    1b. (OF) Mass:
    Processional: Of the Father's Love Begotten
    Propers: Graduale or Fr. Weber (all option 1)
    Ordinary: Mass VIII with Alternatim Gloria
    Credo: 3 a la ServiamScores (revision of ICEL credo)
    Offertory: Unto Us is Born a Son (Willcox)
    Communion: O Magnum Mysterium (Lauridson)
    Recessional: In Dulci Jubilo

    2a. (EF) Mass:
    Processional: O Come All Ye Faithful (Willcox)
    Propers: Liber Bevior w/ Chant Abrégès
    Ordinary: Missa Tribus Vocibus (Dalitz)
    Credo 3 or 4
    Motets: Tollite Hostias (C.St. Saens), O Magnum Mysterium (Mariano Garau)

    2b. (OF) Mass:
    Processional: O Come (Willcox)
    Propers: Fr. Weber (option 1 or 2) with SATB Introit a la Willan
    Ordinary: Mass of the Immaculate Conception (Latona)
    Credo: 3 a la ServiamScores (revision of ICEL credo)
    Motets: Gesu Bambino (Pietro Yon), O Magnum Mysterium (Garau)
  • Noctcaelador
    Posts: 5
    I would like to do what I did a couple days ago, with one very important exception. Finding the exception is an exercise for the reader :)

    (EF, needless to say)

    Matins, chanted except
    DuFay, Jesu Redemptor
    Calvisius, Verbum Caro
    Victoria, Te Deum
    Then
    Victoria, Missa O Magnum Mysterium
    Osculati, Quem vidistis pastores
    Adeste Fideles, Corde Natus, Hark, organ improv, etc.
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,102
    #1: I'd really like to give Bruno Oscar Klein's Christmas Mass a go. But then there's the Charpentier, and Malcolm Missa ad Precepe, or the Tallis Missa Puer Natus est Nobis, or...

    For prelude music, while we're dreaming big, the Schütz Weihnachtshistorie. We could stretch the prelude a bit, or cut the recits.
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  • OMagnumMysterium
    Posts: 279
    Finding the exception is an exercise for the reader :)

    Doing Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium Motet in addition to the Mass?
  • Noctcaelador
    Posts: 5
    OMagnumMysterium is correct! I should have left out that motet and saved it for today, because the practice time was too hectic.
    (Username checks out)
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  • vansensei
    Posts: 225
    1. The Stephen Paulus arrangement of Silent Night, I could probably fit somewhere in there. Look it up. It is ethereal.

    2. As someone who also composes, I'd probably end up writing my own Mass each year.
  • Chaswjd
    Posts: 276
    I fear Paul McCreesh beat me to it:

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxexvab050GnuXXSdHTEZ8r7ntNDxcMOu&si=HykLqVRBNiMwKMaV

    Although I do love the “Salvation is Created.”
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