Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST December 2009

6 SundaySECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (Girls & Men)
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Canticle: Benedictus — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot B
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 2)
 Setting: Herbert Sumsion in F
 Communion: How beautiful upon the mountains — John Stainer
 Hymns: NEH 15 5 3(ii) 494(413)
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' — Johann Sebastian Bach (MR)
 
3.00pmBRENTWOOD CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT
 
6.30pmSAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE CAROL SERVICE
 Hymns: NEH 34 42 22 30(omit vv 5 & 7) 35
 Choir carols: The Angel Gabriel — Old Basque arr Edgar Pettman
 In the bleak mid-winter — Harold Darke
 Ding! Dong! merrily on high — Charles Wood

 
13 SundayTHIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Psalm 146 (vv 4-end) — David Rooke Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot C
 Intercessions: Come Lord Jesus, maranatha — Christopher Walker
  Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 3)
 Setting: The English Mass — Leonard J White
 Communion: A tender shoot — Otto Goldschmidt
 Hymns: NEH 12 18 6 466
 Organ: Lo he comes — John Marsh (SS)
 
3.30pmCIVIC CAROL SERVICE
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: William Smith
 Psalm 62
 Canticles: Ludovico Viadana fauxbourdons
 Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway — Anon
 Hymns: NEH 1(i) 170(ii) 17
 Amen: John Hilton
 Organ: Postlude on 'Wachet auf' — Sigfrid Karg-Elert (DR)

 
20 SundayFOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (Becket Consort of Voices)
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Psalm 80 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot D
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 4)
 Setting: William Harris in F
 Communion: Ave Maria gratia plena — Jacques Arcadelt
 Hymns: NEH 11(omit v 2 & 7) 10 161(385) 186
 Organ: Toccata on 'Veni Emmanuel' — Andrew Carter (SD)
 
6.30pmFESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS
 In the bleak midwinter — Harold Darke
 Adam lay ybounden — Malcolm Archer
 Ding! Dong! merrily on high — Charles Wood
 Gaudete, Christus est natus — 16th Century
 The Angel Gabriel — Old Basque arr Edgar Pettman
 Lully, lulla, thou little child — Kenneth Leighton
 I saw three ships — Philip Marshall
 Hymns: NEH 34 39 32 (omit *) 42 30 (vv 1, 2 & 6) 26 (omit *)
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on 'In Dulci Jubilo' (BWV 729) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)

 
24 ThursdayCHRISTMAS EVE
 
4.30pmCHRISTINGLE SERVICE I (Girls' Choir)
 Hymns: NEH 34(omit vv 3 & 4) 22 35 "It’s rounded like an orange"
 Choir carol: Away in a manger — Alan Woods
 
6.00pmCHRISTINGLE SERVICE II (Orchestra of St Thomas')
 Hymns: NEH 34(omit vv 3 & 4) 22 35 "It’s rounded like an orange"
 
11.30pmBLESSING OF THE CRIB AND SOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Festive Eucharist — Noel Rawsthorne
 Responsorial Psalm 96 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Philip Duffy
 Offertory: Sussex Carol — English traditional arr Philip Ledger
 Communion: All my heart this night rejoices — Johann Georg Ebeling
 Hymns: NEH 32 29 35 30 (v 1, 2, 6 & 7)
 Organ: God rest ye merry gentlemen — Wilbur Held (SS)

 
25 FridayTHE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD
 
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Gloria: Coventry Gloria — Peter Jones
 Responsorial Psalm 98 — Gregory Murray (NEH 535)
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Gaudete, Christus est natus — 16th Century
 Communion: I saw three ships — Philip Marshall
 Hymns: NEH 34 [22] 30 (omit *vv) 42 26 (omit v 4)
 Organ: Toccata — François Clément Théodore Dubois (DR)

 
27 SundayTHE HOLY FAMILY
 
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: A New People's Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 148 — David Ogden
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray A
 Communion: Infant holy — Polish arr David Willcocks
 Hymns: NEH 33 (omit v 2, 3 & 6) 28 295 40
 Organ: Good Christian Men Rejoice — Michael Higgins (SS)

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

Music is a very important part of the life and worship at St Thomas'