Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST November 2011

1 TuesdayALL SAINTS’ DAY
 
8.00pmSOLEMN HIGH MASS (Becket Singers)
 Setting: William Harris in F
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O’Carroll (v B)
 Creed: John Merbecke
 Anthem: Blessed are the pure in heart — Henry Walford Davies
 Motet: O quam gloriosum — Tomás Luis de Victoria
 Recessional Psalm 150 — George Talbot
 Hymns: NEH 197 208(AM746) 479 225(i) 381
 Organ: Trumpet Tune — Henry Purcell (SS)

 
2 WednesdayALL SOULS’ DAY
 
8.00pmSOLEMN REQUIEM MASS (Men’s voices)
 Introit: Requiem aeternam — Plainsong mode vi
 Setting: Missa pro defunctis — Plainsong
 Responsorial Psalm 23 — James Walsh
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray
 During Cross Laying: Give rest, O Christ (Russian Kontakion) — Kiev melody
 During Communion: In paradisum — Philip Moore
 Hymns: NEH 462 208 327(295)omit* 329(ii) 112

 
6 SundayTHIRD SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (with the Orchestra of St Thomas’ *)
 Setting: The Boddington Eucharist — Father Colin Hewitt (K & G *)
 Responsorial Psalm 70 — Plainsong
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O’Carroll (A) *
 Motet: Gloria tibi Domine — William Byrd
 Hymns: NEH 52 ‘The Servant King’* ‘Be still* 361(322)
 Organ: Prelude & Fugue in F major (BWV 556) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Responses: Bernard Rose
 Psalm 20 — Gerald Knight
 Canticles: William Byrd fauxbourdons
 Anthem: Evening Hymn — Henry Balfour Gardiner
 Hymns: NEH 256 307(CH294ii)
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Voluntary — Henry Purcell (CM)

 
13 SundaySECOND SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT (Remembrance Sunday)
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Kyrie & Gloria: Anglican Folk Mass — Martin Shaw
 Responsorial Psalm 90 — Christopher Walker
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray D
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Addington Service — Richard Shephard
 Motet: Tantum ergo Sacramentum — Déodat de Severac
 Hymns: NEH 473(ii) omit * 492 308 272
 Organ: Elegy — George Thalben-Ball (DR)
 
11.30amCIVIC SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE
 Intercessions: Dona nobis pacem — Iona
 Anthem: In a world where people walk in darkness — John Harper
 Hymns: NEH 436 488 (AMR 578) 354 ‘O valiant hearts’ 489
 Organ: Allegro Marziale — Frank Bridge (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG (SongCycle)
 Responses: Bernard Rose (3-part)
 Psalm 89 (vv 19-29)
 Canticles: First Service — Philip Moore
 Anthem: They gave their lives — Brian Lynn
 Hymns: NEH 54(i) 481 247
 Organ: Arioso — Noel Rawsthorne (PB)

 
20 SundayTHE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING
 
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Responsorial Psalm 95 (vv 1-7) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Vulpius E
 Anthem: Christus vincit: Christus regnat — 13th C Worcester Antiphonal
 Motet: O come ye servants of the Lord — Christopher Tye
 Hymns: NEH 345 ‘Hail Redeemer King divine’ 443
 ‘Christ triumphant, ever reigning’
 Organ: Choral Song — Samuel Sebastian Wesley (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG (Parish Choir & Girls)
 Introit: Sing, rejoice and be glad — Brian Lynn
 Responses: John Bertalot
 Psalm 104 (vv 1-9) — Henry Smart
 Magnificat: Song of Mary — Richard Shephard
 Nunc Dimittis: Charles Villiers Stanford in B flat
 Anthem: Praise to God in the highest — Sidney Campbell
 Hymns: ‘The Lord is King’ (AMR175) NEH 427 252
 Vesper: Lord, give thine angels — Trevor Jarvis
 Organ: Crown Imperial March — William Walton (SS)

 
27 SundayADVENT SUNDAY (Year B)
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
  Sprinkling Rite: Give us Lord a new heart — Bernadette Farrell
  Responsorial Psalm 80 (vv 1-8) — David Rooke
  Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot A (Advent)
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 1)
 Setting: Messa à tre voci — Antonio Lotti
 Motet: Remember O thou man — Thomas Ravenscroft
 Hymns: NEH 9 14 8(128ii) 499
 Organ: Canzona in D minor — Johann Sebastian Bach (DR)

 
6.30pmSEQUENCE OF MUSIC AND READINGS FOR ADVENT
 Anthems:
 Matin Responsory — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 People look east — Charles Velu
 A tender shoot — Otto Goldschmidt
 A maiden most gentle — Andrew Carter
 Zion hears the watchmen’s voices — Johann Sebastian Bach
 Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i
 Hymns: NEH 11 7 12 494(413)
 Organ: Postlude on ‘Sleeper's wake’ — Miles L'A Martin (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'