Choral services on Sundays are Mass at 10:00 and Evensong at 6:30. There are extra services at major festivals. The programme of music for the current month is shown.


Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST September 2010

5 SundayTHE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS & HOLY BAPTISM
 Setting: Anglican Folk Mass — Martin Shaw
 Responsorial Psalm 1 — Stephen Darkin
 Gospel Acclamation: Vulpius E
 Communion: God be in my head — Henry Walford Davies
 Hymns: NEH 433(omit*) 271 294 336
 Organ: Grand Choeur — Théodore César Salomé (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Responses: Humphrey Clucas
 Psalm 121 — Henry Walford Davies
 Canticles: Thomas Tomkins fauxbourdons vi
 Anthem: Hail, gladdening light — Geoffrey Shaw
 Hymns: NEH 426 377
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Alla Marcia — Henry Coleman (DR)

 
12 SundayTHE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (with the Orchestra of St Thomas*)
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith (K & G *)
 Responsorial Psalm 51 — Gregory Murray (NEH532)
 Gospel Acclamation: Saint Thomas Alleluia — David Rooke (A) *
 Intercessions: O Lord hear my prayer — Taizé
 Communion: Tantum ergo Sacramentum — Déodat de Séverac
 Hymns: NEH 390(Wareham) Lord of the years *
 Make me a channel of your peace * 488
 Organ: Dam Busters March — Eric Coates (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG (Girls’ Choir)
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalms 124 125
 Canticles: George Dyson in C minor
 Anthem: I am the bread of life — Simon Lole
 Hymns: NEH 257 365 248(ii)
 Organ: Voluntary in D major — Samuel Jackson (PB)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG at Holy Cross Hornchurch (Parish Choir)
 Introit: The royal banners forward go — Plainsong mode i
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalms 110 150 — George Talbot
 Canticles: Herbert Brewer in D
 Anthem: O Saviour of the world — John Goss
 Intercessions: Adoremus te Domine — Taizé
 Hymns: Lift high the cross NEH 95 Servant king
 Organ: Lift high the Cross — Andrew Moore (SD)

 
18 Saturday
 
2.00pmWEDDING
 Organ: Jesu, joy of man’s desiring — Johann Sebastian Bach
 Anthem: Lead me Lord — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
 Hymns: 436 Amazing grace How great thou art
 Organ: Tuba Tune — Craig Sellar Lang (DR)

 
19 SundayTHE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke
 Responsorial Psalm 113 — Andrew Moore
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong G
 Communion: A Clare Benediction — John Rutter
 Hymns: NEH 440(omit*) 95 276(ii) 388(i)
 Organ: Prelude in G major (BWV 568) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: William Smith
 Psalm 129
 Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in G
 Anthem: O be joyful in the Lord — Herbert Howells
 Hymns: NEH 150(i) 385 461(Corvedale)
 Amen: William Smith
 Organ: Psalm Prelude Set 1 No.1 — Herbert Howells (DR)

 
24 Friday
 
1.00pmLUNCHTIME MUSIC
 Docklands Brass

 
25 Saturday
 
2.00pmWEDDING (No Choir)
 Organ: Canon in D — Johann Pachelbel
 During signing of the registers: Amazing grace
 Hymns: Lord of the dance NEH 436
 Organ: Wedding March — Felix Mendelssohn (DR)

 
26 SundayTHE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS & MOTHERS’ UNION ENROLMENT
 Setting: Harold Darke in F
 Gloria: Coventry Gloria — Peter Jones
 Responsorial Psalm 146 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot A
 Communion: Ave Maria — Johann Sebastian Bach/Charles Gounod
 Hymns: NEH 351 HFT74 297 359(322)
 Organ: Intrada — Grayston Ives (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG (Boys’ voices)
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 135 (vv 1-14)
 Canticles: Berkshire Service — Malcolm Archer
 Anthem: Litany to the Holy Spirit — Peter Hurford
 Hymns: NEH 334 357 252
 Organ: Romance sans paroles — Joseph Bonnet (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'