Music Suggestions
Third Mass During the Day of the Nativity of Our Lord (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Puer nátus est nóbis [Liber Usualis p.408]
2. Puer nátus est nóbis [Graduale Romanum p.33]
3. Puer nátus est nóbis [Gregorian Missal p.198]
4. Puer nátus est nóbis (chant)
5. Puer nátus est nóbis by various composers
Gradual:
1. Vidérunt ómnes [Liber usualis, p.409]
2. Vidérunt ómnes [Graduale Romanum p.33-34]
3. Vidérunt ómnes [Gregorian Missal p.199]
4. Vidérunt ómnes (chant)
5. Vidérunt ómnes by various composers
Alleluia:
1. Díes sanctificátus [Liber usualis, p.409-410]
2. Díes sanctificátus [Graduale Romanum p.34-35]
3. Díes sanctificátus [Gregorian Missal p.200]
4. Díes sanctificátus (chant)
5. Díes sanctificátus by various composers
Offertory:
1. Tui sunt caéli [Liber usualis, p.410]
2. Tui sunt caéli [Graduale Romanum p.35]
3. Tui sunt caéli [Gregorian Missal p.200-201]
4. Tui sunt caéli (chant)
5. Tui sunt caéli by various composers
Communion:
1. Vidérunt ómnes [Liber usualis, p.410]
2. Vidérunt ómnes [Graduale Romanum p.35]
3. Vidérunt ómnes [Gregorian Missal p.201-202]
4. Vidérunt ómnes (chant)
5. Vidérunt ómnes by various composers
Mass settings:
1. Mass VIII (De angelis) [Liber usualis, p.37-40]
2. Mass VIII (De angelis) [Graduale Romanum, p.28-31 in back of book]
3. Mass II (Kyrie fons bonitatis) [Liber usualis, p.37-40]
4. Mass II (Kyrie fons bonitatis) [Graduale Romanum, p.8-11 in back of book]
5. Latin Chant Masses VIII (De angelis) & XI (Orbis factor)
6. Mass VIII (De angelis)
7. Latin Gregorian Chant Masses XI (Orbis factor) & VIII (De angelis)
8. Latin Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
9. Latin Mass of Saint Jerome (Christopher Bord)

Other liturgical music

Asperges me [Liber usualis, p.11]
Asperges me Graduale Romanum, p.707
Asperges me Gregorian Missal (2010), p.84
Asperges me Corpus Christi Watershed

Hymns

Christians, Awake (ICEL #16, CHB #17, EH #16)
For Us A Child of Hope Is Born [tune: Carol] from Introit Hymns #8 (Christoph Tietze)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice (AH #334, CBW #465, CH #190, HH #45, ICEL #18, PMB #33, WIII #391, SMH #544, EH #31)
How Great Our Joy! (CH #189, SMH #568)
Joy to the World (AH #320, CBW #454, CH #208, HPSC #205, ICEL #22, PMB #24, WIII #399, SMH #600, EH #319, VII #232, LCH #21)
Of the Father's Love Begotten (AH #331, CBW #470, CH #220, HH #44, HPSC #269, ICEL #25, WIII #398, CHB #28, SMH #691, EH #20, VII #332)
The Living Light of Heaven (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

Christmas Lullaby: Carol of the Nuns of Saint Mary's, Chester (J. William Greene)
Ein Kind ist uns geboren — Proper introit text in German (Melchior Franck, Heinrich Schütz)
Et incarnatus est (Calvert Shenk)
For unto Us A Child Is Born from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
Hodie Christus natue est (Claudio Marenzio)
How Beautiful upon the Mountains (John Antes)
Mirabile misterium! (David Barton)
Mirabile mysterium (David Caudill)
No Sad Thought (Ralph Vaughan Williams) from Hodie
O Splendor of God's Glory Bright (John Reese) CNP Catalog #5085
Psallite unigenito (Michael Praetorius / Thomas Vozzella)
Puer natus est nobis (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit [Liber usualis p.408]
Puer natus in Bethlehem (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant I
Puer natus in Bethlehem from Eight Liturgical Rounds (Heath Morber)
Singet dem Herrn (Johann Pachelbel, Heinrich Schütz)
Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 1 (Gary Penkala)
Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 2 (Greene, Brumby, Penkala)
The Glory of the Father (Egil Hovland)
The Word Was Made Flesh (Healey Willan)
Two Christmas Anthems (Colin Brumby)
Unto Us a Boy Is Born! (Colin Brumby)
Verbum caro factum est (Hans Leo Hassler, Johann Walther)
When Christ Was Born of Mary Free (J. William Greene)

Organ Music

A solis ortus cardine from Four Preludes on Chant Hymns (Mark Siebert)
Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Neumeister Collection - Yale University Press]
Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (J.H. Buttstedt) [Organist's Companion, November 1994]
Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Organist's Companion, November 1992]
Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (J.K.F. Fischer) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (Johann Pachelbel) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
Divinum mysterium (Richard Purvis) [Leeds Music Corp]
Divinum mysterium (Dorothy Howell Sheets) [Organist's Companion, November 1992]
Divinum mysterium from Four Preludes on Chant Hymns (Mark Siebert)
Fanfare, Prelude and Chorale on Joy to the World (Ronald Besemer) [Organist's Companion, December 1984]
Fantasy on Antioch (Emma Lou Diemer) [AGO 90th Anniversary Anthology of American Organ Music - Oxford]
Five Variations on Antioch (John Hebden Schaffner) [Organist's Companion, November 1998]
Gloria from Two Christmas Preludes from Manuals (Donna Robertson)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice (Wilbur Held) from Six Carol Settings [Concordia 97-4985]
Hail the Day So Rich in Cheer (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set 3 [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-102]
He Whom Shepherd Men Came Praising (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set II - Morning Star Music Publ 10-101]
In dulci jubilo (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Old Masters of the Organ - Kalmus] [Joyce Jones Chirstmas Collection - Bradley Publ] [Organist's Companion, November 1998]
In dulci jubilo (Johann Michael Bach) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
In dulci jubilo from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
In dulci jubilo (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Anthologia pro organo IV - Schott Frères] [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ] [Organist's Companion, November 2001]
In dulci jubilo: Partita for Organ (James A. Dale) [Organist's Companion, November 1994]
In dulci jubilo (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, November 1999]
In dulci jubilo (Vincent Lübeck) [Orgelwerke - Peters] [Organist's Companion, December 1987]
In dulci jubilo (Fridolin Sicher) [Consoliere IV-4 - World Library Publ] [Organist's Companion, November 1993]
In dulci jubilo (J.G. Walther) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, December 1986 ]
In dulci jubilo (F.W. Zachau) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
Joy to the World (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, December 1985]
Joy to the World (Hugo Gehrke) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
Joy to the World (Wilbur Held) [A Nativity Suite - Concordia 97-4461]
Joy to the World: In the Style of Vivaldi (James Konkel) [Organist's Companion, November 1990]
Now Sing We Now Rejoice (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set III - Morning Star Music Publ 10-102]
Of the Father's Love Begotten (Wilbur Held) from Six Carol Settings [Concordia 97-4985]
Of the Father's Love Begotten (David Johnson) [Augsburg 11-841]
Postlude on Antioch (Gordon Young) [Ten Christmas Organ Voluntaries - Presser]
Quem pastores (R.E. Gahringer) [Organist's Companion, November 1990]
Stille Nacht from Seven Preludes for the Church Year (Donna Robertson)

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

Music SuggestionsThird Mass During the Day of the Nativity of Our Lord (EF)