Monthly Music List
DECEMBER 2024
Sunday 22nd December 10:00 a.m. – Advent 4
Mass setting: Missa de Angelis
Hymns:
3 Come thou long expected Jesus
186 Tell out my soul
161 For Mary, Mother of our Lord
11 O come, O come, Emmanuel!
Anthem: Mary’s Carol – Andrew Fletcher
Marian Anthem: Salve Regina
Voluntary: Noel Suisse – Louis-Claude Daquin
No Choral Evensong on Sunday 22nd December
Tuesday 24th December 9:00 p.m. – First Mass of Christmas
Mass setting: Darke in F
Hymns:
34 Once in Royal David’s city
29 It came upon a midnight clear
35 Silent night! Holy night!
26 Hark! the herald angels sing
Anthem: Lully, Lulla, Lullay – Philip Stopford
Marian Anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: Dieu Parmi Nous from La Nativite – Messiaen
Wednesday 25th December 10:00 a.m. – Christmas Day
Mass setting: Ireland in C
Hymns:
24 Christians awake! Salute the happy morn
32 O little town of Bethlehem
31 O little one sweet, O little one mild
30 O come, all ye faithful
Anthem: In the Bleak mid-winter – Harold Darke
Marian anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: Sleigh ride – Leroy Anderson
Sunday 29th December 10:00 a.m. – Christmas 1 (The Holy Family)
Mass setting: Darke in F
Hymns:
21 A great and mighty wonder
20 From east to west, from shore to shore (Tune II)
22 Away in a manger
25 God rest ye merry gentlemen
Anthem: Quelle est cette odeur agreable? – Willcocks
Marian anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: TBC
JANUARY 2025
Sunday 5th January 10:00 a.m. – The Epiphany of our Lord
Mass Setting: Ireland in C
Hymns:
27 How brightly beams the morning star
52 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
51 Hail, thou source of every blessing
49 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Anthem: A new year carol – Britten
Marian Anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: In Dir ist Freude – J.S. Bach
Thursday 9th January 7:30 p.m. Epiphany Carol Service
36 The first Nowell
Ayleward Responses (1st set only)
We three kings of Orient are (sheet)
47 As with gladness men of old
57 The race that once in darkness pined
55 Hail to the Lord’s annointed
Nunc Dimittis: Stainer in Bb (No.3)
Anthems: Three Kings from Persian lands – Cornelius
Lully, Lulla, Lullay – Philip Stopford
Voluntary: Prelude sur l’introit de l’Epiphanie - Duruflé
Sunday 12th January 10:00 a.m. – The Baptism of the Lord
Mass setting: Sumsion in F
Hymns:
12 On Jordans bank the Baptist’s cry
56 Songs of thankfulness and praise
307 Sweet Sacrament Divine
352 Crown him with many crowns
Anthem: O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace – Tye
Marian Anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: Prelude in B minor BWV 544 – J.S. Bach
Sunday 19th January 10:00 a.m. – 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Mass setting: Mass of the quiet hour – Oldroyd
Hymns:
353 Dear lord and Father of mankind
104 At the Lamb’s high feast we sing
302 O thou who at thy Eucharist dids’t pray
467 Through all the changing scenes of life
Anthem: O taste and see – R. Vaughan Williams
Marian Anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: Final from Symphony No.1 – Vierne
Sunday 26th January 10:00 a.m. – 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Mass setting: Darke in F
Hymns:
234 Christ who’s glory fills the skies
410 My God, how wonderful thou art
374 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
391 King of glory, King of peace
Anthem: Teach me O Lord – Attwood
Marian Anthem: Angelus
Voluntary: Intrada – Grayston Ives
Sunday 26th January 6:00 p.m. Solemn Choral Evensong & Benediction
Responses: Rose
Canticles: Murrill in E
Hymns:
456 Teach me, my God and King
241 Before the ending of the day
Anthem: Here is the little door – Howells
Voluntary: Sinfonia to Cantata No.29 – J.S. Bach (arr Fletcher)
Choir Rehearsals
Sundays: 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on 26th January
Thursdays: 7:15 p.m.
Director of Music: Angela Sones
E-mail: angelasones@hotmail.co.uk
Music Secretary: Bryce Somerville
E-mail: Bryce@thesomervilles.biz