Music Leader Thread Part III - Song Lists, Suggestions, and Comments

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Opening: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell)
Offertory: Lead Us to Your Light (Browning)
Communion 1: There is a Longing (Quigley)
Communion 2: Gah! I’m completely drawing a blank!
Closing: Soon and Very Soon (Crouch)
 
SMHW said:
Opening: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell)
Offertory: Lead Us to Your Light (Browning)
Communion 1: There is a Longing (Quigley)
Communion 2: Gah! I’m completely drawing a blank!
Closing: Soon and Very Soon (Crouch)
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I always seem to draw a blank for one song! So I made sure to take the program home with me tonight.
 
anp1215 said:
I always seem to draw a blank for one song! So I made sure to take the program home with me tonight.
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And this was the one week that the music director did not email us the list of songs ahead of time! (He was too preoccupied with our concert this past Friday.) It might have been the Taize Wait for the Lord but I’m simply not sure.
 
3rd Week of Advent:
4th Week of Advent:
  • Opening: O Come O Come Emanuel
  • Psalm: Magnificat (as a common ‘psalm’, “And Holy Is Your Name” tune of Wild Mountain Thyme, Haas)
  • Prep: A Voice Cries Out (Joncas)
  • Communion: To Be Your Bread
  • Closing: People Look East
 
smndtupidisaftr said:
A Voice Cries Out (which wow, this must be one of the toughest for parishes to sing; it has no discernable pattern)
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It definitely is challenging, but worth it once it becomes known. The trick is to use it often enough so that it does become well known. Verses 1, 3, & 5 have one melody and vv 2 & 4 have an alternate melody. We use it whenever John the Baptist is mentioned in the readings (as well as using The Benedictus [to the tune of Forest Green] similarly). So it’s done most of Advent, Baptism of the Lord, and the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, and feasts of JohntB.

See this thread for a list of what was done this weekend.
 
Might as well post the Christmas block:

Christmas:
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Magnificat (as a common ‘psalm’, “And Holy Is Your Name” tune of Wild Mountain Thyme, Haas)
  • The First Nowell
  • Silent Night
  • Joy to the World
Holy Family:
Mary, Mother of God:
  • Angels We Have Heard on High
  • Magnificat (as a common ‘psalm’, “And Holy Is Your Name” tune of Wild Mountain Thyme, Haas)
  • What Child Is This
  • Silent Night
  • Hark The Herald Angels
Epiphany:
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Magnificat (as a common ‘psalm’, “And Holy Is Your Name” tune of Wild Mountain Thyme, Haas)
  • We Three Kings
  • The First Nowell
  • Joy to the World
Baptism of the Lord:
 
SMHW said:
And this was the one week that the music director did not email us the list of songs ahead of time! (He was too preoccupied with our concert this past Friday.) It might have been the Taize Wait for the Lord but I’m simply not sure.
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Funny how it’s always one song (well for me it is)! I’ve actually sat there and driven myself crazy trying to remember which song I’m forgetting.
 
agapewolf said:
Required for survival. Not only organization, but I HAVE to have a couple months planned ahead, especially during Christmas season.
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I require the music ministries I work with to fill out the song schedule for the year.

It’s the only way to truly see what the repertoire of the parish is and develop it. So, e.g., we pick out the Holy Spirit songs we think are worthy of liturgical use and then schedule them for the end of Easter, Pentecost, Confirmation, and anywhere else in the year they would ‘fit.’ We have a list of song choices for funerals and weddings and then incorporate them into the liturgical year. This way, people who pick music for funerals and weddings and who attend them, will know the songs because they have heard them at Sunday masses.

I’m at a new parish now, and so, we’re in the building phase of the repertoire where we put new songs in a heavy rotation so people get to know them well.
 
Sunday, December 23, 2012 - Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year C

Processional: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Offertory: Come thou long expected Jesus
Communion: When came in flesh the incarnate word and The Angel Gabriel
Recessional: Hark the Glad sound, the Saviour Comes
 
The Propers aren’t that hard if you put a little effort into them. I’m in a men’s Gregorian chant group, and we regularly are asked to do the proper antiphons.

If you are interested in trying them out, here is an easy website to get the propers for free:

ccwatershed.org/liturgy/

click on the Sunday you want to get sheet music for and listen to mp3 recordings of the propers. They will open.
 
O_Moriah said:
I’m at a new parish now, and so, we’re in the building phase of the repertoire where we put new songs in a heavy rotation so people get to know them well.
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I use a pile method for rotation. I don’t file songs when I use them until the pile is about three months deep. Then I file them and re-use them. I try not to pick songs too often, except for seasonal one.

I aim at trying 2-3 new songs a year. We have a very small operation, with only two musicians, with a third that plays one Mass a month, an only a handful of people that help sing in one of the three Masses. I am sure that what I do would never fly in a parish with staff musicians and a several people participating.
 
pnewton said:
I use a pile method for rotation. I don’t file songs when I use them until the pile is about three months deep. Then I file them and re-use them. I try not to pick songs too often, except for seasonal one.

I aim at trying 2-3 new songs a year. We have a very small operation, with only two musicians, with a third that plays one Mass a month, an only a handful of people that help sing in one of the three Masses. I am sure that what I do would never fly in a parish with staff musicians and a several people participating.
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You do what works best for your parish. That’s important. When I worked at our cathedral, the music director had the entire year planned. That place was so busy with all of the diocesan events, weddings, etc. that to at least have the regular Sunday liturgies planned way ahead was a help. The two directors I regularly work with now, do not do a year ahead, but they plan maybe a month to a couple months ahead. Easter and Christmas is usually planned many months. When I headed a children’s voice and handbell choirs at a small parish, I had to plan way ahead so that I would know in advance how much time I needed to take to teach the children the music, especially for the handbells. The voice choir was just learning how to sing in harmony and how to chant. It was also my first time ever directing anyone, so, I needed to plan months in advanced for my own learning benefit as well. 😉 I also was only allowed a half-hour once a week during lunch to teach them. That was not easy.
 
OraLabora said:
I’ll preface this by saying it was an Ordinary Form Mass in case anyone was wondering.

Propers:

Introit: Gaudete in Domino Semper
Gradual: Qui Sedes Domine
Alleluia: Excita Domine
Offertory: Benedixisti Domine Terram Tuam
Communion: Dicite: Pusilamines…

Ordinary:

Kyriale XVII, with Kyrie XVIIc; Credo 3.

The above all in Latin (except Kyrie of course). The rest was in French plainchant including the readings which were chanted. The only thing not chanted was the homily.

Yes it’s done this way every Sunday (every day for that matter!). It’s at a Benedictine monastery.

As a footnote, being Gaudete Sunday, the organ was used (prelude, offertory and postlude), and the presiding celebrant wore rose-coloured vestments.
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👍 :o

Would that this sort of Liturgical environment were available to all Catholics.

In my parish O Come, O Come Emmanuel was sung as an opening hymn. About half of the congregation sang along or attempted to sing along since the piano played it in much too high a key for most of the voices.

The remaining six items were the usual OCP pop slop type songs. The “music ministers” sang them along with a handful of brave souls while about 90% of the congregation sat there looking bored. A few folks were saying rosaries. I just put my hearing aid on mute and prayed the propers of the Mass in my Missal.
😦
 
roadsend said:
In my parish O Come, O Come Emmanuel was sung as an opening hymn. About half of the congregation sang along or attempted to sing along since the piano played it in much too high a key for most of the voices.
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Ours was accompanied by guitars. If ever there was a piece that calls to be sung a capella it is that chant! So much easier to sing without accompaniment.
 
Opening: “When the King Shall Come Again” (Gather 404)
Preparation (Offertory): “On Jordan’s Bank” (Gather 418)
Communion Hymn: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” (Gather 395)**
Communion Anthem (Meditation): “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” (Louis Vierne, sung by Traditional Choir)
Closing: “O Come Divine Messiah” (Gather 401)

-Gather Hymnal, most current edition, blue cover

**Sung acapella, 4 part harmony with soprano descant on final verse
 
Saint Mary’s Parish, California
Order of Music-3rd Sunday, Advent, December 16, 2012

Introit:S “Rejoice in the Lord always…” Simple English Propers/Adam Bartlett
Entrance: SE O COME, O COME EMMANUEL *Veni Emmanuel *

Opening Rites:S Kyrie (VIII)
E Kyrie -Mass of St. Ann/Ed Bolduc

Responsorial: SE Respond & Acclaim

Gospel Accl.:S “Keep Your Lamps” Alleluia A. Thomas/CDC
E Alleluia (Sleeth)

Offertory: S GAUDATE ¬Bob Hurd or LO, HOW A ROSE E’ER BLOOMING
E BEYOND THE MOON AND STARS Schutte

Eucharistic Accl.:S Holy/MemAcc./Amen/Lamb of God-Mass of St. Therese/Royce Nickel
E Holy/Christ/ Amen/Lamb (Bolduc)

Communion Procession:SE “Say to the anxious…” Simple Choral Gradual/Richard.Rice
S COME, WATCH AND WAIT Inwood
E COME, COME EMMANUEL 1 Angrisano

Communion Anthem: S ADVENT MESSAGE Händel
E COME, LORD JESUS Ridge

Recessional:S THE COMING OF OUR GOD *Optatus votis omnium *
E LET THE KING OF GLORY COME * Joncas *
 
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