Music Suggestions
The Epiphany of Our Lord (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Ecce advénit dominátor Dóminus [Liber Usualis p.459]
2. Ecce advénit dominátor Dóminus [Graduale Romanum p.57]
3. Ecce advénit dominátor Dóminus [Gregorian Missal p.217]
4. Ecce advénit dominátor Dóminus (chant)
5. Ecce advénit dominátor Dóminus by William Byrd
Gradual:
1. Omnes de Sába vénient [Liber usualis, p.459-460]
2. Omnes de Sába vénient [Graduale Romanum p.57-58]
3. Omnes de Sába vénient [Gregorian Missal p.218]
4. Omnes de Sába vénient (chant)
5. [Omnes de Sába vénient by various composers
Alleluia:
1. Vídimus stéllam [Liber usualis, p.460]
2. Vídimus stéllam [Graduale Romanum p.58]
3. Vídimus stéllam [Gregorian Missal p.219]
4. Vídimus stéllam (chant)
5. Vídimus stéllam by various composers
Offertory:
1. Reges Thársis et ínsulae [Liber usualis, p.461]
2. Reges Thársis et ínsulae [Graduale Romanum p.59]
3. Reges Thársis et ínsulae [Gregorian Missal p.219-220]
4. Reges Thársis et ínsulae (chant)
5. Reges Th´rsis et ínsulae by various composers
Communion:
1. Vidimus stéllam [Liber usualis, p.462]
2. Vidimus stéllam [Graduale Romanum p.59]
3. Vidimus stéllam [Gregorian Missal p.221]
4. Vidimus stéllam (chant)
5. Vidimus st&ecute;llam 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. Mass IV "Cunctipotens Genitor Deus" [Liber usualis, p.25-28]
6. Mass IV "Cunctipotens Genitor Deus" [Graduale Romanum, p.15-18 in back of book]
7. Latin Chant Masses VIII (De angelis) & XI (Orbis factor)
8. Latin Gregorian Chant Masses XI (Orbis factor) & VIII (De angelis)
9. Latin Gregorian Chant Masses XI (Orbis factor) & VIII (De angelis)
10. Latin Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
11. 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

A Child Is Born in Bethlehem (HH #42, HPSC #99, WIII #384, LCH #24)
As with Gladness Men of Old (HH #52, ICEL #33, WIII #409, AH #353, CH #229, HPSC #114, CBW #478, CHB #41, SMH #435, EH #52, VII #236, LCH #36)
At the Lord's Appearing (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
Behold, the Sovereign Lord Is Nigh [tune: Winchester Old] from Introit Hymns #12 (Christoph Tietze)
Bethlehem, of Noblest Cities (AH #352, CHB #42, VII #339)
Brighest and Best of the Stars of the Morning (CH #233, HH #50, CHB #43, SMH #461, EH #46, VII #337)
Earth Has Many a Noble City (HH #53, ICEL #34, CH #230, SMH #511, EH #48)
Hail to the Lord's Anointed (AH #354, CH #175, HH #54, HPSC #181, ICEL #229, CHB #3, SMH #554, EH #545, LCH #35)
How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (CD #815, WIII #390, HH #55, CH #214, CHB #45, EH #329)
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (HPSC #256, SMH #677)
The First Noel (AH #327, CBW #460, CH #211, HPSC #318, ICEL #30, PMB #31, WIII #408, CHB #37, SMH #780, EH #61, VII #235, LCH #17)
We Three Kings of Orient Are (AH #350, CH #232, ICEL #35, PMB #38, WIII #406, SMH #822, EH #51, LCH #37)
What Star Is This? (HH #58, WIII #407, HPSC #350, CBW #477, CHB #49, SMH #827, EH #47)

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

All They from Saba Shall Come; (Leo Sowerby, Jacob Handl)
Arise, Shine, O Zion (Maurice Greene)
Behold A Star from Christus (Felix Mendelssohn)
Blessed Be the Lord (Eugene Englert)
Cum natus esset Jesus (Cristóbal de Morales)
Gaudete omnes (Jan Pieters Sweelinck)
Hodie Christus natus est (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 1
Magi veniunt ab oriente (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
O magnum mysterium (Giovanni Gabrieli, Tomás Luis de Victoria)
O Splendor of God's Glory Bright (John Reese)
O'er the Hill and O'er the Vale (J. William Greene)
Offertorien für Weihnacht und Epiphanias (Max Filke)
Orietur stella (Jacob Handl)
Outlanders, Whence Come Ye Last? (J. William Greene)
Quem pastores laudavere (arr. John Rutter) from Carols for Choirs II [Oxford]
Salve puerule (M.A. Charpentier) from Carols for Choirs III [Oxford]
Singet dem Herren (Johann Pachelbel)
Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 1 (Gary Penkala)
Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 2 (Greene, Brumby, Penkala)
We Have Seen His Star (Everett Titcomb)
Where Is the Newborn King? (Andreas Hammerschmidt)
Videntes stellam (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Francis Poulenc, Tomás Luis de Victoria)

Organ Music

As with Gladness Men of Old (Henry Markworth) Parish Organist, Part 1 [Concordia]
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Jan Bender) Parish Organist XI [Concordia]
Christum wir sollen loben schon (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
Communion from Messe basse (Camil van Hulse)
Dix (Don Freudenberg) [Organist's Companion, September 1996]
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Jan Bender) Parish Organist, Part 9: Wedding Music [Concordia]
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Paul Manz) Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set III [Morning Star Music Publ 10-102]
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Flor Peeters) Thirty Chorale Preludes, Book 1 [Peters 6023]
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Max Reger) Chorale Preludes for the Church Year [Carl Fischer]
Little Prelude on Morning Star (Randolph Currie) [Organist's Companion, November 1991]
Morning Star (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, December 1980]
Partita on Dix (Dennis Janzer) [Organist's Companion, October 1986]
Postlude on Kings of Orient (Gordon Young) Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries [Presser]
Prelude on The First Noel (James Konkel) [Organist's Companion, November 1989]
Prelude on The First Noel (Gordon Young) Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries [Presser]
Promenade on We Three Kings (Jack C. Goode) [Organist's Companion, December 1984]
The First Noel (Wilbur Held) Six Carol Settings [Concordia 97-4985]
The First Noel (Charles Ore) Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 3 [Concordia 97-5702]
The First Noel (John Hebdon Schaffner) [Organist's Companion, November 2001]
The Three Kings (Wilbur Held) A Nativity Suite [Concordia 97-4461]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Andreas Amrsdorff) Church Organist's Golden Treasury III [Oliver Ditson Co]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (J.C. Bach) Eighty Chorale Preludes [Peters 4448]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (J.S. Bach) Church Organist's Golden Treasury III [Oliver Ditson Co]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Dieterich Buxtehude) Church Organist's Golden Treasury III [Oliver Ditson Co]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Victor Klauss) [Organist's Companion, November 1989] [Organist's Companion, November 1997]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Johann Pachelbel) Church Organist's Golden Treasury III [Oliver Ditson Co]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Flor Peeters) Thirty Chorale Preludes [Peters 3980]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Max Reger) Thirty Chorale Preludes [Peters 3980] [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern from Two Christmas Preludes for Manuals (Donna Robertson)
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Stephen Rohde) [Organist's Companion, December 1985]
Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, December 1980]

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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