Music Suggestions
The Seventh Sunday of Easter (B)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:
1. Exaudi, Domine, vocem meam [Graduale Romanum, p.241]
2. Exaudi, Domine, vocem meam [Gregorian Missal, p.387]
3. Viri Galilæi [Graduale simplex, p.178]
4. Viri Galilaei (William Byrd, Dulos Couillart, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
5. Hearken, O Lord, unto my voice [Simple English Propers, p.141 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. Lord, hear my voice when I call [Simple Choral Gradual, p.114 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. My Heart Declared to You, O Lord [tune: Duke Street] from Introit Hymns #29 (Christoph Tietze)
8. Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
Alleluia I (Responsorial Psalm):
1. Alleluia. Regnavit Dominus [Graduale Romanum, p.242]
2. Alleluia. Regnavit Dominus [Gregorian Missal, p.388]
3. Dominus regnavit (Josquin des Prez)
4. Omnes gentes, plaudite [Graduale simplex, p.179]
5. Omnes gentes, plaudite (Hans Leo Hassler, Christopher Tye)
6. O clap your hands (Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tremain)
Alleluia II (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Alleluia. Non vos relinquam [Graduale Romanum, p.242]
2. Alleluia. Non vos relinquam [Gregorian Missal, p.389]
3. Non vos relinquam Orphanos (William Byrd, Charles H. Giffen)
4. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless (William Byrd)
5. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Quis ascendet [Graduale simplex, p.182]
Offertory:
1. Ascendit Deus in iubilatione [Graduale Romanum, p.237]
  -or-
  Viri Galilæi [Graduale Romanum, p.237]
2. Ascendit Deus in iubilatione [Gregorian Missal, p.389]
  -or-
  Viri Galilæi [Gregorian Missal, p.383]
3. Ascendit Deus in iubilatione [Graduale simplex, p.182]
4. Ascendit Deus (William Byrd, Francisco Guerrero, Jacob Handl, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Peter Philips, Ferdinand Schaller)
5. God has gone up [Simple English Propers, p.142 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. Men of Galilee [Simple English Propers, p.143 (Adam Bartlett)]
7. God goes up with shouts of joy [Simple Choral Gradual, p.115 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
8. God Is Gone Up with a Merry Noise (William Croft)
9. Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
Communion:
1. Pater, cum essem [Graduale Romanum, p.243]
2. Pater, cum essem [Gregorian Missal, p.390]
3. Sede a dextris meis [Graduale simplex, p.183]
4. Pater, cum essem [Communio, p.191]
5. Father, when I was amongst them [Simple English Propers, p.144 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. This is the prayer of Jesus [Simple Choral Gradual, p.116 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
Mass settings:
1. Mass of Our Lady, Help of Christians (Richard Connolly)
2. Mass of the Angels (Richard J. Clark)
3. Mass of the Redemption (Calvert Shenk)
4. Missa I – Lux et origo (Gregorian chant) [Graduale Romanum, p.710]
5. Missa I – Lux et origo (Gregorian chant) [Graduale simplex, p.75]
6. Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
7. Paschal Gloria (J. William Greene)

Other liturgical music

Adoro te devote: A Communion Processional (Gary Penkala)
Blessed Be God (James Chepponis) [GIA Publications]
Chant Booklet, Volume 4 (ed. Chris Bord)
Common Psalms for Schools & Parishes (Thomas Cosley)
Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons (Gary Penkala)
Gospel Fanfare for Easter Morning (James Biery) [GIA Publications]
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
Gregorian Missal [Solesmes edition]
I Saw Water Flowing (Alex Hill)
Let All the Earth (Christopher Willcock) [OCP]
Like a Deer That Longs (John E. Sittard)
Lumen Christi (Richard J. Clark)
Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
Paschal Gloria (J. William Greene)
Processional Alleluia (Howard Hughes SM) [GIA Publications]
Psalm 118 (Christopher Bord)
Renaissance Alleluia (Gary Penkala)
Saint Patrick Alleluia (Stephen McManus)
Tantum ergo: A Processional (Gary Penkala)
Te Deum: We Praise You, O God (J. William Greene)
This Day Was Made by the Lord (Christopher Walker) [Oregon Catholic Press]
Universal Music for Morning Prayer (Gary Penkala)
Universal Music for Evening Prayer (Gary Penkala)
Vidi aquam (Gregorian chant) Proper chant for Sprinkling Rite [Liber usualis, p.12] — or — [Booklet of Chant, Volume 3]

Hymns

Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (HPSC #112, ICEL #130, WIII #737, CBW #536, AH #601, PMB #663, CH #504, CHB #112)
Ascend Your Throne, O Righteous One (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
Be Joyful, Mary, Heavenly Queen (CBW #497, CH #328, ICEL #109, PMB #77, WIII #450)
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (WIII #463, HPSC #131, CBW #499, AH #415, CH #289, CHB #76)
God Is My Strong Salvation (HPSC #165, ICEL #208, CH #646, HH #302)
O Queen of Heaven (WIII #443, PMB #67)
One in Joyful Songs of Praise (PMB #72)
Safe in the Hands of God (HPSC #291)
The Strife Is O'er (WIII #451, ICEL #77, PMB #68, HH #131, CBW #503, AH #413, CH #276, CHB #83)
This Is the Lord's Day (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
Ye Servants of God (CD #911, CH #519, HPSC #357)

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.

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.

Choral Music

Bless the Lord, My Soul (J.S. Bach) [Flammer]
Bless the Lord, O My Soul (M. Ippolitov-Ivanov) [G. Schirmer]
Christo resurgenti (François Couperin)
Come, Bless Ye the Lord (G.P. Telemann)
Dixit Dominus (Marc-Antoine Charpentier, George Frideric Handel, Isabella Leonarda, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Antonio Vivaldi)
Domine Fili unigenite from Gloria in D (Antonio Vivaldi)
Easter Psalm (Gary Penkala)
Exaudi Domine (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
Glorious Is the Lord (F.J. Haydn)
God Is Gone Up with a Merry Noise (William Croft)
Great Thou Art (Robert Roesch)
I Will Not Leave You Comfortless (William Byrd, Everett Titcomb)
Non vos relinquam orphanos (Ignazio Donati) [Oxford]
O God, the King of Glory (Henry Purcell) [GIA Publications]
One Thing I Ask of the Lord (Heinrich Schütz)
Praise the Lord, O My Soul (Thomas Tomkins) [Novello]
Regina coeli laetare (Gregor Aichinger / Angelini)
Regina coeli (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis, p.278] — or — [CNP Booklet of Chant, Volume 2]
Regina coeli (Antonio Lotti, Soriano)
The Lord Is My Light (Heinz Werner Zimmerman)
The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation (Eugene Englert) [GIA Publications]
Two Easter Anthems (Colin Brumby)

Organ Music

Au cénacle (Dom Paul Benoit) from Esquisses liturgiques [J. Fischer & Bros.]
Carillon (Louis Vierne)
Easter Fanfare (Colin Mawby)
Entrance Flourish from Village Suite (Tim Knight)
Erschienen ist from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
Festival Flourish from Music for a Festive Occasion (Tim Knight)
Heute triumphiret Gottes Sohn (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
Partita on Awake, My Heart, with Gladness (Flor Peeters)
Prelude on Hyfrydol (Paul Manz) from Improvisatons on Great Hymns of Faith [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-839]
Prelude on Hyfrydol (Ralph Vaughan Williams, Healey Willan)
Prelude on In Babilone (Paul Manz) from Improvisatons for Pentecost and Trinity Sunday [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-500]
Regina caeli (Hermann Schroeder) from Die Marianischen Antiphonen [Edition Schott #4538]
The Strife Is O'er (Wilbur Held) from Six Preludes on Easter Hymns [Concordia 97-5330]
This Joyful Eastertide (June Nixon)

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

This Sunday lies between Ascension and Pentecost and allows us to celebrate that time of hope-filled longing for the Spirit — a kind of "mini-Advent" in the midst of Easter. Do not stop singing Easter hymns... Easter really, really does last until Pentecost — and your music should say so. Musical references to the Holy Spirit can reinforce the proximity of Pentecost.

Music SuggestionsThe Seventh Sunday of Easter (B)