Music Suggestions
Christmas - Mass at Midnight

• A Child Is Born in Bethlehem (HH #42, HPSC #99, WIII #384)
• Angels We Have Heard on High (AH #323, CBW #463, CH #219, HPSC #113, PMB #34, WIII #376, CHB #15, SMH #222)
• Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light (HPSC #126)
• Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (AH #325, CBW #462, CH #222, HPSC #182, ICEL #20, PMB #37, WIII #387, CHB #21, SMH #338)
• In the Bleak Mid-winter (CH #193, CHB #23, SMH #366)
• It Came upon the Midnight Clear (PMB #30,WIII #400, AH #335, CH #195, CHB #25, SMH #371)
• O Come, All Ye Faithful (AH #322, CBW #458, CH #225, HPSC #235, ICEL #23, PMB #25, WIII #392, CHB #13, SMH #436)
• On Christmas Night (ICEL #26, CHB #29)
• Tell Me, Shepherd (CD #805)
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (AH #332, CH #199, ICEL #28, WIII #382, CHB #40, SMH #613)

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.

• "Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3020
• "Dominus dixit" (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit [Liber usualis p.392]
• "From East to West: A Christmas Processional" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog # 3015
• "Gloria in C" (Layton James) CNP Catalog #3131
• "Gloria in d" (Don Roy) CNP Catalog #3133
•  Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition] CNP Catalog #2100
•  Graduale Simplex [Vatican edition] CNP Catalog #2150
• "Gospel Verses for the Christmas Cycle" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3050
• "Missa sanctorum angelorum" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3120
• "Psalm 96" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #1096-1
• "Service of Lessons for Christmas Eve" (Harry McMurray) CNP Catalog #3160
• "Universal Music for Evening Prayer" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3101

• "Angelus ad pastores ait" (Hans Leo Hassler, Claudio Monteverdi, J.P. Sweelinck)
• "Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light" (J.S. Bach)
• "Cantate Domino" (Giovanni Croce, Hans Leo Hassler, G.O. Pitoni)
• "Christmas Lullaby: Carol of the Nuns of Saint Mary's, Chester" (J. William Greene) CNP Catalog #5011
• "Dies sanctificatus" (Palestrina / Siebert) CNP Catalog #7038
• "Et incarnatus est" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5023
• "For unto Us A Child Is Born" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
• "For unto Us A Child Is Born" (Clemens non Papa)
• "Glory to God in the Highest" (Adrian Batten)
• "Hodie Christus natus est" (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 1 CNP Catalog #2001
• "Hodie Christus natus est" (Claudio Marenzio) [Concordia]
• "Hodie Christus natus est" (J.P. Sweelinck) [Novello]
• "Lo, the Angel Said to the Shepherds" (Andrea Gabrieli)
• "O magnum mysterium" (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis p.382]
• "O magnum mysterium" (Tomas Luis de Victoria)
• "Psallite unigenito" (Michael Praetorius)
• "Puer natus est" (Cristóbal Morales) [GIA Publications]
• "Recitative & Carol: Shepherd's Tale" (J. William Greene) CNP Catalog #5240
• "Service of Lessons for Christmas Eve" (Harry McMurray) CNP Catalog #3160
• "Shepherds, What Is This Lovely Fragrance?" (arr. Gregory Hamilton) CNP Catalog #5013
• "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (Johann Pachelbel)
• "Sussex Carol" (arr. David Willcocks) Carols for Choirs I [Oxford]
• "Tell Me, Shepherds" (arr. Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #5100
• "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
• "The Shepherd & the King" (J. William Greene) CNP Catalog #5040
• "To Us a Child Is Born" (Heinrich Schütz)
• "Unto Us a Boy Is Born!" (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #5135
• "Unto Us a Child Is Born" (Melchior Franck)

• "Adeste fidelis" (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, December 1982 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Adeste fidelis with Variations" (Thomas Adams) [Organist's Companion, November 1992 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "All Glory Be to God on High" (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for Pentecost and Trinity Sunday [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-500]
• "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Ronald Arnatt) [Preludes for Hymns in Worship Supplement I]
• "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 2 - Concordia 97-5385]
• "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 4 - Concordia 97-6013]
• "Berceuse: It Came upon a Midnight Clear" (Mary Gifford) [Organist's Companion, November 1998 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light" (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg]
• "Chorale Prelude on Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" (Bill Cain) [Organist's Companion, November 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Concerto for Organ & Strings" (Michael J. Starke) CNP Catalog #6010
• "Fanfare on Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" (Alec Wyton) [Preludes, Fanfares & a March for the Liturgical Year - Flammer]
• "Fanfare on Mendelssohn" (Gordon Young) [Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries - Presser]
• "Fanfare on Mendelssohn" (Martin Setchell)
• "Fanfare-Toccata on Mendelssohn" for Organ and Brass (J. William Greene) [Choral Web]
• "Five Chorale Preludes" (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #6025
• "Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Max Reger)
• "Gloria for the Flutes" (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, December 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "O Come, All Ye Faithful" (Sigvart Hofland) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
• "Puer natus in Bethlehem" (J.S. Bach) [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 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Postlude" from Messe basse (Camil van Hulse)
• "Postlude on Adeste fidelis" (Gordon Young) [Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries - Presser]
• "Prelude on This Endris Nyght" (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ, Set II - Peters]
• "To Shepherds As They Watched by Night" (Charles Ore) from 11 Compositions, Set I
• "Variations on Adeste fidelis" (Raynor Taylor) [A Century of Amercian Organ Music, Bk 1 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on The Echo Carol" (Stephen Rohde) [Organist's Companion, November 1988 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Vom Himmel kam der Engel schaar" (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein