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Music Suggestions
Christmas- Mass at Dawn

Hymns:
  • A Great and Mighty Wonder (ICEL #13, CHB #11)
  • All My Heart This Night Rejoices (CH #228, ICEL #14, CHB #14)
  • From East to West, from Shore to Shore (HH #39)
  • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (AH #326, CH #224, ICEL #19, PMB #39, WIII #383, CHB #20, SMH #316)
  • How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (CD #815, WIII #390, HH #55, CH #214, CHB #45)
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem (AH #333, CH #198, HPSC #249, ICEL #24, PMB #27, WIII #386, CHB #27, SMH #454/5)
  • Silent Night (AH #338, CBW #455, CH #226, HPSC #295, ICEL #29, PMB #22, WIII #379, CHB #35, SMH #523)
  • Thou Who Wast Rich (CD #810)
  • Wexford Carol (CH #205, SMH #325)
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
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.
PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.
SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN
WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.
Liturgical Music: Choral Music:
  • "Et incarnatus est" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5023
  • "Gloria III Canon" (Jacques Berthier) Music from Taizé [GIA Publications]
  • "Hodie Christus natus est" (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 1 CNP Catalog #2001
  • "Lux fulgebit" (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit [Liber usualis p.403]
  • "Recitative & Carol: Shepherd's Tale" (J. William Greene) CNP Catalog #5240
  • "Shepherds, What Is This Lovely Fragrance?" (arr. Gregory Hamilton) CNP Catalog #5013
  • "Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 1" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #4010
  • "Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 2" (Greene, Brumby, Penkala) CNP Catalog #4020
  • "When Christ Was Born of Mary Free" (J. William Greene) CNP Catalog #5034
Organ Music:
  • "Fantasy on God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (W.T. Best)
  • "From Heaven Above" (Wilbur Held) from Six Carol Settings [Concordia 97-4985]
  • "Carol-Prelude: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Robert Elmore) [American Organ Music, Vol 2 - Sacred Music Press]
  • "Communion on Saint Louis" (Mahlon Balderston) [Organist's Companion, November 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Fantasy on God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (W.T. Best) [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
  • "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Wilbur Held) [Six Carol Settings - Concordia 97-4985]
  • "Partita on God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Grace Schwanda) [Organist's Companion, December 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Tucket and Variants for God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" (Kevin Norris) [Organist's Companion, December 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "In dulci jubilo" from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #6025
  • "Noel sur les flutes" (L.C. Daquin)
  • "Pastorale on Ebeling" (Gordon Young) [Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries - Presser]
  • "Pastorale on Silent Night" (Jack Goode) [Organist's Companion, December 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Prelude and Introit" from Messe basse (Camil van Hulse)
  • "Prelude on Silent Night" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Consoliere VI-4 - World Library Publ]
  • "Prelude on Stille Nacht" (Gordon Young) [Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries - Presser]
  • "Puer natus est" (Dom Paul Benoit) from Esquisses liturgiques [J. Fischer & Bros.]
  • "Saint Louis" (Lewis H. Redner) [American Hymns and Carols of the Nineteenth Century - Abingdon]
  • "Silent Night" (Dudley Buck) [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
  • "Silent Night" (Michael Fontana) [Organist's Companion, November 1993 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Silent Night" (Wilbur Held) [A Nativity Suite - Concordia 97-4461]
  • "Silent Night" (Joseph Lowe) [Organist's Companion, November 1989 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Robert J. Powel) [Organist's Companion, December 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her" (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
  • "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her" (Johann Pachelbel)
  • " What Is This Lovely Fragrance?" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set II - Morning Star Music Publ 10-101]
Liturgical Hints & Ideas:
Because of the early hour, this might be a Mass in which to empahsize the quiet and calm nature of the Incarnation. Mystical settings, chant, French Romantic organ literature all seem appropriate.

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