Music Suggestions
Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Hodie sciétis [Liber Usualis p.358-359]
2. Hodie sciétis [Graduale Romanum p.24]
3. Hodie sciétis [Gregorian Missal p.185]
4. Hodie sciétis (chant)
5. Hodie sciétis by various composers
Gradual:
1. Hodie sciétis [Liber usualis, p.360]
2. Hodie sciétis [Graduale Romanum p.24-25]
3. Hodie sciétis [Gregorian Missal p.186]
4. Hodie sciétis (chant)
5. Hodie sciétis by various composers
Alleluia:
1. Crástina díe delébitur [Liber usualis, p.361]
2. Crástina díe delébitur [Graduale Romanum p.25-26]
3. Crástina díe delébitur [Gregorian Missal p.187]
4. Crástina díe delébitur (chant)
Offertory:
1. Tollite pórtas [Liber usualis, p.362]
2. Tollite pórtas [Graduale Romanum p.26]
3. Tollite pórtas [Gregorian Missal p.188]
4. Tollite pórtas (chant)
5. Tollite pórtas by various composers
Communion:
1. Revelábitur glória Dómini [Liber usualis, p.362]
2. Revelábitur glória Dómini [Graduale Romanum p.26]
3. Revelábitur glória Dómini [Gregorian Missal p.188-189]
4. Revelábitur glória Dómini (chant)
5. Revelábitur glória Dómini by various composers
Mass Settings :
1. Mass VIII (De angelis) [Liber usualis, p.37-40]
2. Mass VIII (De angelis) [Graduale Romanum, p.28-31 in back of book]
3. Mass II (Kyrie fons bonitatis) [Liber usualis, p.37-40]
4. Mass II (Kyrie fons bonitatis) [Graduale Romanum, p.8-11 in back of book]
5. Latin Chant Masses VIII (De angelis) & XI (Orbis factor)
6. Mass VIII (De angelis)
7. Latin Gregorian Chant Masses XI (Orbis factor) & VIII (De angelis)
8. Latin Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
9. Latin Mass of Saint Jerome (Christopher Bord)

Other liturgical music

Asperges me [Liber usualis, p.11]
Asperges me Graduale Romanum, p.707
Asperges me Gregorian Missal (2010), p.84
Asperges me Corpus Christi Watershed

Hymns

All My Heart This Night Rejoices (CH #228, ICEL #14, CHB #14, EH #32)
Blessed Virgin Mother (HH #294)
Blessed Be the God of Israel (CBW #77)
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light (HPSC #126, EH #25, SMH #459)
Come, Adore This Wondrous Presence (WIII #758)
Come Down, O Love Divine (WIII #472, HPSC #133, CBW #517, PMB #93, HH #140, AH #440, CH #498, CHB #92, SMH #482, EH #376, VII #364, LCH #76, SEC #887)
Come, O Christian People, Sing (HH #110)
A Child Is Born in Bethlehem (HH #42, HPSC #99, WIII #384, LCH #24)
Christ Is Born, He Is Born Today (CD #812)
I Wonder As I Wander (CH #192, SMH #576)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (CH #194, CHB #24, SMH #584, LCH #20)
Of the Father's Love Begotten (AH #331, CBW #470, CH #220, HH #44, HPSC #269, ICEL #25, WIII #398, CHB #28, SMH #691, EH #20, VII #332)
Once in Royal David's City (ICEL #27, PMB #21, WIII #402, AH #328, HPSC #270, CBW #473, CHB #30, CH #212, SMH #702, EH #236, VII #336, LCH #31)
Savior of the Nations, Come (AH #302, CD #801, CH #184, HH #33, WIII #372, SMH #741, VII #228, LCH #12)
The Living Light of Heaven (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
Today It Will Be Known to You [tune: Puer nobis] from Introit Hymns #5 (Christoph Tietze)

AH = The Adoremus Hymnal, Ignatius Press

CBW = Catholic Book of Worship II / Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

CD = Cantate Domino / Hymnal Supplement, GIA Publications, Inc.

CH = The Collegeville Hymnal, The Liturgical Press

CHB = The Catholic Hymn Book [London Oratory], Gracewing Publishers

EH = The Hymnal 1940 (Episcopal), used by many Anglican Use Roman Catholic parishes

HH = Hymnal of the Hours, GIA Publications, Inc.

HPSC = Hymns, Psalms & Spiritual Canticles, out of print but excellent

ICEL = ICEL Resource Collection, GIA Publications, Inc.

LCH = Lumen Christi Hymnal, Illuminare Publications

PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.

SEC = Saint Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal, Corpus Christi Watershed

SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal – 4th Edition 2011, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN

WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.

Choral Music

Fratres gaudete in Domino semper, Gaudete in Domino (Orlando di Lasso, Giaches de Wert)
Come, O Long Expected Jesus (WIII #364, HH #2, HPSC #140, AH #310, CBW #447, VII #329)
Come, Show Us Your Salvation, Lord (HPSC #138)
Come, Thou Almighty King (WIII #487, ICEL #91, CH #307, PMB #114, AH #484, SMH #488, EH #271, LCH #128)
Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers (HPSC #287, HH #7, SMH #730, EH #4)
All My Heart This Night Rejoices (John Sittard)
Christmas Triptych (Robert Jordahl)
En natus est Emmanuel (Michael Praetorius)
Gloria III Canon (Jacques Berthier) Music from Taizé [GIA Publications]
On This Day / Personent hodie (arr. Lynn Arthur Koch)
Puer natus in Bethlehem from Eight Liturgical Rounds (Heath Morber)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (arr. David Willcocks) Choirs for Carols II [Oxford]
Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 1 (Gary Penkala)
Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 2 (Greene, Brumby, Penkala)
The Shepherd's Tale (J. William Greene)
Unto Us A Boy Is Born! (Colin Brumby)
When Christ Was Born of Mary Free (J. William Greene)

Organ Music

Canonic Partita on Savior of the Nations, Come (J. William Greene) [Choral Web]
Divinum mysterium (Richard Purvis) [Leeds Music Corp]
Divinum mysterium (Dorothy Howell Sheets) [Organist's Companion, November 1992]
Divinum mysterium from Four Preludes on Chant Hymns (Mark Siebert)
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (anonymous) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (Max Reger) [Thirty Short Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (J.P. Sweelinck) [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (F.W. Zachau) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
How Far Is It to Bethlehem (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set II - Morning Star Music Publ 10-101]
Hymnus de Adventu Domini: Veni Redemptor gentium (Samuel Scheidt) [Organist's Companion, November 1988]
In dulci jubilo from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly from Three Preludes for the Christmas Cycle (Robert Farrell)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Jack C. Goode) [Organist's Companion, December 1985]
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, November 2000]
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set II - Morning Star Music Publ 10-101]
Noel polonais (Alexandre Guilmant) [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
Now Come, Savior of the Gentiles (John Diercks) [Six Sacred Compositions for Organ - Abingdon APM-255]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Anthologia pro organo II - Schott Frères] [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (G.F. Kauffmann) [Organist's Companion, December 1980]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland from Four Advent Chorales (Stephen McManus)
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Johann Pachelbel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, November 2000]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (A.N. Vetter) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (F.W. Zachau) [Organist's Companion, December 1984 & November 1990]
Of the Father's Love Begotten (Wilbur Held) [Six Carol Settings - Concordia 97-4985]
Of the Father's Love Begotten (David N. Johnson) [Augsburg 11-841]
Polish Carol: W zlobie lezy (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, November 1989]
Prelude on Divinum mysterium (Andrew Gant)
Prelude on Bring A Torch (Christopher Uehlein)
Puer natus in Bethlehem (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
Puer natus in Bethlehem (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
Puer natus in Bethlehem (G.F. Kauffmann) [Organist's Companion, November 1991]
Salvation unto Us Has Come (Charles Ore) from 11 Compositions, Set III
Savior of the Nations, Come (J.H. Buttstedt) [Parish Organist, Part 3 - Concordia]
Savior of the Nations, Come (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set I - Morning Star Music Publ 10-100]
Savior of the Nations, Come (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 1 - Concordia 97-5019]
Savior of the Nations, Come (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 4 - Concordia 97-6013]
Savior of the Nations, Come (Max Reger) [Chorale Preludes for the Church Year - Carl Fischer]
Savior of the Nations, Come (Frank Speller) [Three Organ Settings for Advent - Concordia]
Stille Nacht from Seven Preludes for the Church Year (Donna Robertson)
Toccata on Savior of the Nations (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Christmas Season Set 1 [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-100]
Variations on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Anton Heiller)
Wir Christenleut (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

Music SuggestionsVigil of the Nativity of Our Lord (EF)