Music Suggestions
The Ascension of Our Lord (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Viri Galilaéi [Liber Usualis p.846-847]
2. Viri Galilaéi [Graduale Romanum p.285-286]
3. Viri Galilaéi [Gregorian Missal p. 381]
4. Viri Galilaéi (chant)
5. Viri Galilaéi by various composers
1st Alleluia:
1. Ascéndit Déus [Liber usualis, p.848]
2. Ascéndit Déus [Graduale Romanum p.286]
3. Ascéndit Déus [Gregorian Missal p. 382]
4. Ascéndit Déus (chant)
5. Ascéndit Déus by various composers
2nd Alleluia:
1. Dóminus in Sína [Liber usualis, p.848]
2. Dóminus in Sína [Graduale Romanum p.286]
3. Dóminus in Sína [Gregorian Missal p. 383]
4. Dóminus in Sína (chant)
5. Dóminus in Sína by Heinrich Isaac
Offertory:
1. Ascéndit Déus [Liber usualis, p.849]
2. Ascéndit Déus [Graduale Romanum p.287]
3. Ascéndit Déus [Gregorian Missal p. 389-390]
4. Ascéndit Déus (chant)
5. Ascéndit Déus by various composers
Communion:
1. Psállite Dómino [Liber usualis, p.849]
2. Psállite Dómino [Graduale Romanum p.287]
3. Psállite Dómino [Gregorian Missal p. 386]
4. Psállite Dómino (chant)
5. Psállite Dómino by various composers
Mass settings:
1. Mass I "Lux et origo" [Liber usualis, p.16-19]
2. Credo I [Liber usualis, p.64-66]
3. Mass I "Lux et origo" [Graduale Romanum, p.4-7* in back of book]
4. Credo I [Graduale Romanum, p.59-61* in back of book]
5. Mass I (Lux et origo)
6. Credo I

Other liturgical music

Vidi aquam [Liber usualis, p.12]
Vidi aquam Graduale Romanum, p.708
Vidi aquam Gregorian Missal (2010), p.85
Vidi aquam, found in Booklet of Chant, Volume 3

Hymns

A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing (WIII #469, HH #136, SMH #400, VII #359, LCH #74)
All Nations Clap Your Hands (HPSC #106, CH #559, SMH #417)
Ascend Your Throne, O Righteous One (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
Go Make of All Disciples (WIII #628, CH #635)
God of Gods, We Sound His Praises (HPSC #166)
Hail, O Once Despised Jesus (HPSC #175, EH #357)
Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (WIII #471, ICEL #82, HH #139, HPSC #176, CBW #512, AH #430, CH #295, CBH #87, SMH #552, EH #104, VII #252, LCH #73)
Hail Thee, Festival Day (AH #414, CBW #509, CH #274, HPSC #179, PMB #78, WIII #444, SMH #553, EH #86/102/107)
Look, O Look, the Sight Is Glorious (WIII #468, EH #105)
Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor (CD #893, CH #545, CHB #121, VII #301)
Lord, You Gave the Great Commission (WIII #470, HPSC #597, CH #639)
Praise Him As He Mounts the Skies (CBW #513, CH #296)
Rejoice, Angelic Choirs (WIII #455, HH #104)
See the Conqueror Mounts in Triumph (AH #431, CBH #89, EH #103, SMH #743)
Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise (ICEL #81, CBW #508, CH #273, SMH #753)
Thine Is the Glory (CD #829)
This Is the Lord's Day (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year

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

Alleluia (William Boyce) [GIA Publications]
Alleluia, Ascendit Deus (William Byrd)
Ascendit Deus (Jacob Gallus) [Augsburg]
Blessed Be the Lord (Eugene Englert)
Dixit Dominus from Solemn Vespers of a Confessor (W.A. Mozart)
Easter Psalm (Gary Penkala)
Finished the Strife (Ottomanyi)
Gloria in excelsis Deo from Mass in D (Antonin Dvorak)
Go Ye Therefore (Robert Jordahl) [Kjos]
God Is Gone up with A Merry Noise (William Croft)
God Mounts His Throne (Leo Sowerby)
Great Is the Lord (Healey Willan)
Hallelujah, Amen from Judas Maccabeus (G.F. Handel)
How Lovely Are the Messengers from Saint Paul (Felix Mendelssohn)
Now Glad of Heart (Paul Langston) [Howard Publications]
O Clap Your Hands (François Couperin, Orlando Gibbons, Maurice Greene, John Rutter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Archer)
Te Deum laudamus (Calvert Shenk)
The Earth Is the Lord's (Paul Langston) [Howard Publications]
The Heavens Are Telling from The Creation (F.J. Haydn)
The King Ascendeth into Heaven (Healey Willan) [Concordia]
To Realms of Glory (Schein / Nelson) [Augsburg]
Viri Galilaei (Gregorian chant, William Byrd)

Organ Music

Agincourt Hymn (John Dunstable) [Treasury of Early Organ Music - Mercury Music Corp]
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (Hermann Schroeder) [Parish Organist, Book 8 - Concordia 97-1404]
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (Carlos Staszeski) [Organist's Companion, March 1999]
Christ Triumphant (John Marsh)
Deo gracias" (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, November 1996]
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)
Fugue in G (Jig) (J.S. Bach)
Hymn Prelude on Llanfair (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
Like the Golden Sun (Max Reger) from Chorale Preludes for the Church Year, Opus 67 [Carl Fischer Co.]
Llanfair (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, April 1981]
Maestoso: Five Processionals (Calvert Shenk)
O Love How Deep (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Great Hymns of Faith - Morning Star Music Publ 10-839]
On Christ's Ascension I Now Build (Max Reger) from Chorale Preludes for the Church Year, Opus 67 [Carl Fischer Co.]
Poco vivace from Six Short Pieces (Hermann Schroeder)
Prelude on Bryn Calfaria (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Easter Season [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-402]
Prelude on Bryn Calfaria (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Prelude on Deo gracias (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ, Set II - Peters]
Prelude on Neander (Paul Manz) from Ten Chorale Improvisations, Set I [Concordia #97-4554]
Prelude on Werde munter (Paul Manz) from Ten Chorale Improvisations, Set IV [Concordia #97-4951]
Toccata in b minor (Eugene Gigout)
Variations on Lasst uns erfreuen (Thomas Bohlert) [Organist's Companion, June 1988]

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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