Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST February 2010

 
2 TuesdayTHE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
 
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS & CANDLEMAS CEREMONIES (SongCycle)
 Setting: Messa a 4 voci da capella — Claudio Monteverdi
 Gloria: Coventry Gloria — Peter Jones
 Responsorial Psalm 84 — Nicholas Rayner
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray C
 Communion: Hodie beata Virgo — William Byrd
 Candle ceremony: Nunc Dimittis — Thomas Morley fauxbourdons tone vi
 Hymns: NEH 157 466 187 8 (128ii)
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on 'O Jesus süss' — Flor Peeters (SD)

 
7 SundayTHE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
 
10.00amSOLEMN MASS & CANDLEMAS CEREMONIES
 Setting: The Boddington Eucharist — Father Colin Hewitt
 Responsorial Psalm 24 (vv 7-10) — Stephen Darkin
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O’Carroll
 Offertory: O nata lux de lumine — Thomas Tallis
 Communion: When to the temple Mary went — Johannes Eccard
 Candle ceremony: Nunc Dimittis — Ludovico Viadana fauxbourdons
 Hymns: 'In his temple now behold him' NEH 185 187 494(413) 8 (128ii)
 Organ: Chorale Improvisation on 'Nun Danket' — Sigfrid Karg-Elert (SS)*
 * = sponsored voluntary
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG & BENEDICTION (Girls’ Choir)
 Introit: In a world where people walk in darkness — John Harper
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 122
 Canticles: Philip Moore fauxbourdons tonus peregrinus & tone vii
 Anthem: Prayer of St Richard of Chichester — Leonard J White
 Hymns: NEH 156(288) 157
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Chorale Improvisation on ‘Praise the Lord’ — Sigfrid Karg-Elert (DR)

 
14 SundayTHE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE LENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Kyrie: Lux et origo — Plainsong
 Gloria: Lourdes
 Responsorial Psalm 99 — Stephen Darkin
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong H
 Intercessions: Listen Lord — Iona
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: The Addington Service — Richard Shephard
 Communion: My eyes for beauty pine — Herbert Howells
 Hymns: NEH 377 178 308 338(Camberwell) omit v2
 Organ: Processional — William Mathias (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: William Smith
 Psalm 89 (v 1-8)
 Canticles: Samuel Sebastian Wesley in F
 Anthem: God omnipotent reigneth — Charles Wood
 Hymns: 'Alleluya song of sweetness' NEH 353 250
 Amen: William Smith
 Organ: Minuet from Royal Fireworks suite — George Frederic Handel (SS)

 
17 WednesdayASH WEDNESDAY
 
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS & IMPOSITION OF ASHES
 Holy God, holy and strong (Trisagion) — David Rooke
 Responsorial Psalm 51 (selected verses) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke
 During Ashing: The Lent Prose — Plainsong mode v
 Offertory: Call to remembrance, O Lord — Richard Farrant
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Short Service — Adrian Batten
 Communion: O remember not our old sins — Henry Purcell
 Hymns: NEH 67 507 64 357

 
21 SundayTHE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Penitential Rite: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke (No. 2)
 Responsorial Psalm 91 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke B
 Offertory: The Lent Prose — Plainsong mode v (v 1)
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Mass of Saint Cedd — Peter Nardone
 Communion: Christ has no body now but yours — David Ogden
 Hymns: NEH 74 393 274 339
 Organ: Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 533) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Thomas Morley
 Psalm 119 (v 73-88)
 Canticles: Heathcote Statham in E minor
 Anthem: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks — Herbert Howells
 Hymns: NEH 60(i) 415(ii) 383(ii)
 Amen: Sydney Nicholson
 Organ: Gavotte & Bourrée — Heathcote Statham (DR) *
 * = Sponsored voluntary

 
28 SundayTHE SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Penitential Rite: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke (No. 2)
 Responsorial Psalm 27 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke B
 Offertory: The Lent Prose — Plainsong mode v (v 2)
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: St Nicholas Mass — Michael Walsh
 Communion: Penitential Prayer — Brian Lynn
 Hymns: NEH 408(i) 73(i) 70(i) 368
 Organ: Ciacona in E minor — Dietrich Buxtehude (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & STATIONS OF THE CROSS
 Responses: John Sanders
 Psalm 135
 Canticles: Thomas Morley fauxbourdons viii & v
 Anthem: Wash me throughly — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
 Stations of the Cross: Adoremus te Domine — Taizé
 Hymns: NEH 61 63 461(Corvedale)
 Amen: John Hilton
 Organ: Mensch willt du Leben (BuxWV 206) — Dietrich Buxtehude (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'