Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST December 2010

5 SundaySECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
 
10.00amSUNG FAMILY MASS & HOLY BAPTISM (Parish Choir)
 Sprinkling Rite: Give us Lord a new heart — Bernadette Farrell
 Responsorial Psalm 72 (vv 1-7) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot B
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 2)
 Setting: The Boddington Eucharist — Father Colin Hewitt
 Communion: Adam lay ybounden — Philip Ledger
 Hymns: NEH 15 495 305 10
 Organ: Hark the glad sound — Andrew Wright (SS)
 
3.00pmBRENTWOOD CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT
 
6.30pmSAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE CAROL SERVICE (Parish Choir)
 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
 The Sussex Carol — arr Philip Ledger

 
11 Saturday
 
3.00pmST JOHN OF JERUSALEM CAROL SERVICE (Becket Singers Ladies)
 Hymns: NEH 30 "Ding! Dong! merrily on high" 34 32 22 36
 "We three kings" 29 26 489
 Organ: Tuba Tune — Craig Sellar Lang (DR)

 
12 SundayTHIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (Girls’ Choir & Men)
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Psalm 146 (vv 4-10) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot C
 Intercessions: Come Lord Jesus, maranatha — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 3)
 Setting: Mass of the Quiet Hour — George Oldroyd
 Communion: How lovely are the messengers — Felix Mendelssohn
 Hymns: NEH 12 5 6 3(ii)
 Organ: Postlude on 'Wachet auf' — Sigfrid Karg-Elert (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION (Parish Choir)
 Responses: Thomas Tomkins
 Psalm 12
 Canticles: William Byrd fauxbourdons
 Anthem: E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come — Paul Manz
 Hymns: NEH 1(i) 17
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on ‘Wachet Auf' (BWV 645) — JS Bach (SS)

 
19 SundayFOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
10.00amSUNG MASS (Becket Consort of Voices)
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Psalm 80 (vv 1-8) — Carl Turner
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot D
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 4)
 Setting: William Harris in F
 Communion: Ave Maria gratia plena — Tomas Luis da Vittoria
 Hymns: NEH 11(omit v 2 & 7) ‘The Angel Gabriel’ 161(385) 186
 Organ: Fantasia on "Veni Emmanuel" — Cuthbert Harris (DR)
 
6.30pmFESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS (Parish Choir)
 The truth from above — Herefordshire Carol arr Vaughan Williams
 Adam lay ybounden — Philip Ledger
 No small wonder — Paul Edwards
 A spotless rose — Herbert Howells
 The Angel Gabriel — Old Basque arr Edgar Pettman
 The Sussex carol — Philip Ledger
 Ding! Dong! merrily on high — Mack Wilberg
 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 FridayCHRISTMAS EVE
 
4.30pmCHRISTINGLE SERVICE I (Girls' Choir)
 Hymns: NEH 34(omit vv 3 & 4) 22 35 "It’s Rounded Like an Orange"
 Choir carol: And they shall protect thee — Peter Nardone
 
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 (Becket Singers & Parish Choir Gentlemen)
 Setting: Herbert Sumsion in F
 Gloria: A New People’s Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 96 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Philip Duffy
 Offertory: All my heart this night rejoices — Johann Georg Ebeling
 Communion: Nativity Carol — John Rutter
 Hymns: NEH 32 29 35 30 (v 1, 2, 6 & 7)
 Organ: Prelude on 'God rest you merry, gentlemen' — John Rutter (SD)

 
25 SaturdayTHE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD
 
10.00amPARISH SUNG MASS (Parish Choir)
 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: Ding! Dong! merrily on high — Mack Wilberg
 Communion: I saw three ships — Philip Marshall
 Hymns: NEH 34 [22] 30 (omit *vv) 42 26 (omit v 4)
 Organ: God rest ye merry gentlemen — Wilbur Held (SS)

 
26 SundaySAINT STEPHEN, Deacon, First Martyr
 
10.00amPARISH MASS
 Setting: A New People's Mass — Gregory Murray
 Hymns: NEH 201(271) 28 No communion hymn "Good King Wenceslas"
 Organ: Good King Wenceslas — William Lloyd Webber (SD)

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

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