from the Royal
School of Church Music
Sunday by Sunday 2
Choral Music for the Sunday Eucharist
WE'VE GOT THIS COLLECTION ON CD-ROM! Of course, you COULD purchase the
book from your local music dealer that carries materials from the RSCM.
It will cost (depending on the exchange rate) somewhere close to $105.00
plus shipping). Also, the book will be formatted for A4 (British size)
paper so you may have to do some adjusting to get the pages copied correctly.
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1. Ave verum corpus (Geoff Weaver) |
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2. Almighty God, you search us and you know us (Andrew March) |
| 3 Almighty God, we thank you (Martin How) | |
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4. Behold, O God our defender (Noel Rawsthorne) |
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5. Bread of the world in mercy broken (Anthony Baldwin) |
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6. Bread of the world in mercy broken (Peter Aston) |
| 7. Christ be with me (Noel Rawsthorne) | |
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8. Christ is our corner-stone (David Ogden) |
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9. Christ, our God, descends from heaven (Alan Bullard) |
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10. Creator of the heavens (Andrew March) |
| 11. Christ was the Word (Christopher Maxim) | |
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12. Go forth and tell! (David Ogden) |
| 13. Gospel Alleluias and Acclamation (David Ogden) | |
| 14. God of glory (Andrew March) | |
| 15. Holy God, faithful and unchanging (Anthony Marks) | |
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16. I will sing with the Spirit (David Goodenough) |
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17. If God is building when we build (John Barnard) |
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18. Lord, who hast formed me (Philip Godfrey) |
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19. May the grace of Christ our Saviour (Simon Lole |
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20. My spirit longs for thee (Philip Godfrey) |
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21. My spirit longs for thee (Simon Lole) |
| 22. O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (John Harper) | |
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23. O Trinity of blessed light (Sam & Ally Barrett) |
| 24. O sacrum convivium (William Byrd) | |
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25. O voice of the beloved! (Grayston Ives) |
| 26. Our lives are laid open (Andrew March) | |
| 27. Responses to intercessions (Peter Moger) | |
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28. Sent by the Father (Andrew March) |
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29. Out of the stillness (Richard Shephard) |
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30. A Song of Reflection (Colin Mawby) |
| 31. Spirit of God (Simon Lole) | |
| 32. The Baptism of Christ (Andrew March) | |
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33. Verbum caro factum est (Louis Halsey) |
| 34. Verily, verily I say unto you (Thomas Tallis) | |
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35. Yours, Lord, is the greatness (Martin How) |
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36. Mass of St Cedd (Peter Nardone) |
PFEFACE from Sunday
by Sunday 2
Choirs want to sing.
This is number one of ‘Ten things you need to know about choirs’
that I present at clergy training workshops. Choirs want to sing. To
maintain and develop a strong choir it is important to give them opportunities
to sing, not only with the congregation but also separately. Today,
with more congregational involvement in the sung parts of the Eucharist,
the opportunity for choirs to sing alone is often restricted to during
the distribution of communion. In some churches, the choir is also encumbered
by the congregation filing past between the choir stalls. This second
Sunday by Sunday Collection contains short pieces that the choir can
sing not only at communion but at other times during the Eucharist so
as to enrich, support and respond to the liturgy rather than be an opportunity
for the choir to show off. In the collection, we have included introits,
acclamations, blessings, prayer responses, a mass setting, and anthems
– some that are reflective and some that are more forthright.
An introit can set the right mood at the start of a service either in
the manner of a fanfare or as a reflection for the congregation to prepare
for worship. This could be sung just before the service begins.
A choral piece sung after a reading or sermon can help people reflect
on a passage of scripture or the preacher’s words. It can break
up the wordy nature of some services.
Anthems during the distribution of communion are often effective, although,
as the congregation is often on the move, these pieces can become relegated
to ‘background music’. An anthem sung after communion can
be very effective.
Many anthems are never sung during the Eucharist because they are supposedly
too loud to sing during communion. Now and again, try singing a blessing
or even a choral voluntary just before the dismissal or at the end of
the service.
In this collection, there are plenty of other pieces that can be inserted
into the liturgy, not for the sake of it, but to give emphasis and make
the worship interesting and alive. Boredom sets in when everything is
the same every week. However, one word of warning: if you want to insert
a short choral piece in the service, make sure that the clergy and the
other ministers are aware of it in advance. Successful liturgy is achieved
when all the participants are confident they know what is happening.
Maybe another part of the service could be shortened or even omitted,
but this needs planning, negotiation and common consent. Good luck!
I hope you enjoy these pieces and they enrich your Sunday Eucharist.
Of course they can be used at other times as well. There are liturgical
and seasonal indexes to help you select pieces and, like the Sunday
by Sunday Collection Vol. 1, you can legally photocopy as many copies
as you need. So keep your treasurer happy and just buy one book; keep
your choir happy and let them sing!
David Ogden, editor
Bristol 2006
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