Music Suggestions
Easter Sunday (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Resurréxi et adhuc técum [Liber Usualis p.778]
2. Resurréxi et adhuc técum [Graduale Romanum p.240-241]
3. Resurréxi et adhuc técum [Gregorian Missal p. 349]
4. Resurréxi et adhuc técum (chant)
Gradual:
1. Haec díes [Liber usualis, p.778-779]
2. Haec díes [Graduale Romanum p.241]
3. Haec díes [Gregorian Missal p. 350-351]
4. Haec díes (chant)
5. Haec díes by various composers
Alleluia:
1. Páscha nóstrum [Liber usualis, p.779]
2. Páscha nóstrum [Graduale Romanum p.242]
3. Páscha nóstrum [Gregorian Missal p. 351]
4. Páscha nóstrum (chant)
5. Páscha nóstrum by various composers
Sequence:
1. Victimae pascháli [Liber usualis, p.780]
2. Victimae pascháli [Graduale Romanum p.242-243]
3. Victimae pascháli [Gregorian Missal p. 351-352]
4. Victimae pascháli (chant)
5. Victimae pascháli by various composers
Offertory:
1. Terra trémuit [Liber usualis, p.781]
2. Terra trémuit [Graduale Romanum p.243]
3. Terra trémuit [Gregorian Missal p. 353]
4. Terra trémuit (chant)
5. Terra trémuit by various composers
Communion:
1. Pascha nóstrum immolátus [Liber usualis, p.781]
2. Pascha nóstrum immolátus [Graduale Romanum p.243-244]
3. Pascha nóstrum immolátus [Gregorian Missal p. 354]
4. Pascha nóstrum immolátus (chant)
5. Pascha nóstrum immolátus by Jacobus Vaet
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

All You on Earth (PMB #70, HH #118)
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (WIII #463, HPSC #131, CBW #499, AH #415, CH #289, CHB #76, SMH #474/5, EH #95, VII #246, LCH #62)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing (AH #419, CH #271, HH #124, CHB #78, SMH #545)
Hail Thee, Festival Day (AH #414, CBW #509, CH #274, HPSC #179, PMB #78, WIII #444, SMH #553, EH #86/102/107)
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (AH #410, CBW #500, CH #288, HPSC #201, ICEL #73, PMB #74, WIII #442, CHB #79, SMH #589, EH #85, VII #249, LCH #59)
Let the Earth Rejoice and Sing (PMB #63)
O Thou, the Heavens' Eternal King (HPSC #266, VII #357)
Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise (ICEL #81, CBW #508, CH #273, SMH #753)
That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright (WIII #457, ICEL #76, HH #116, CBW #507, CH #284, SMH #774, EH #98, LCH #60)
The Clouds of Night Are Passed Away (HPSC #313)
The Strife Is O'er (WIII #451, ICEL #77, PMB #68, HH #131, CBW #503, AH #413, CH #276, CHB #83, SMH #787/8, EH #91, LCH #64)
This Is the Day the Lord Created (HPSC #329)
This Is the Day the Lord Has Made (CH #625, CD #852)
This Is the Lord's Day from Hymns for the Liturgical Year (Kathleen Pluth)
Victimæ paschali laudes (ICEL #79, HPSC #342, SMH #816)
With High Delight (CD #827)

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 (Sr. Edith Scholl, OCSO)
Alleluia, dic nobis, Maria (Francisco Lopez Capillas)
Alleluia! In resurrectione tua (Jacobus Gallus) [GIA Publications]
In resurrectione tua (William Byrd, Jacob Handl)
Christ the Lord Is Risen! Alleluia! (J.H. Roman)
Dum transisset (Joseph Furmanik, Robert Johnson, Thomas Tallis, John Taverner)
Easter Psalm (Gary Penkala)
Exsultate Deo (Alessandro Scarlatti)
Finished the Strife of Battle Now (Steven Ottomanyi)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing (Donna Robertson)
Hæc dies (Jacob Arcadelt, William Byrd, Marc Ingengeri, G.P. da Palestrina)
Hallelujah from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
If Ye Be Risen Again with Christ (Orlando Gibbons)
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (arr. Matthew Koraus)
King of Kings (Caleb Simper)
Like a Deer That Longs (John Edward Sittard)
Magdalena (Johannes Brahms)
Maria Magdalene (Andrea Gabrieli, Francisco Guerrero)
Purge, Put the Old Leaven Therefore (Heinrich Schütz)
Regina coeli lætare (Gregor Aichinger / Angelini)
Regina coeli lætare (Johannes Brahms, Giovanni Croce, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Charles Gounod, João Baptista Lehman, Antonio Lotti, Cristóbal de Morales, W.A. Mozart, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adrian Willaert)
Regina cæli (Adam Taylor)
Sicut cervus desiderat (Palestrina / Angelini)
Sicut cervus (Manoel Dias de Oliveira)
Surrexit Christus (G.B. Pergolesi) [GIA Publications]
Surrexit Christus Dominus (Michael Praetorius)
Te Deum laudamus (F.J. Haydn, Jean Langlais, W.A. Mozart, Domenico Scarlatti)
Te Deum laudamus (Calvert Shenk)
The Master's Rejoicing (Jim Stanley)
The Strife Is O'er (C. Armstrong Gibbs) from The Oxford Easy Anthem Book
This Is the Day (Melchior Franck) [GIA Publications]
This Is the Day (Gallus)
This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Alan Smith)
Two Easter Anthems (Colin Brumby)

Organ Music

Allegro from Symphony VI (Charles-Marie Widor)
Allegro-Finale from Symphony I (Louis Vierne)
Alleluya (William Faulkes) [A Victorian Organ Album - Oxford]
At the Lamb's High Feast (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Easter Season [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-402]
Carillon-sortie (Henri Mulet)
Chorale Fantasie on Lasst uns erfreuen (Flor Peeters) [Novello]
Chorale Prelude (Healey Willan)
Chorale Toccata on Lasst uns erfreuen; (R. Evan Copley) [H.W. Gray]
Christ ist erstanden (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I – Oliver Ditson Co]
Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands (Wilbur Held) from Six Preludes on Easter Hymns [Concordia #97-5330]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Orgelwerke VI - Peters 245] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I – Oliver Ditson Co]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (Georg Böhm) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, March 1992]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (G.F. Kauffmann) [Organist's Companion, February 1986]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (J.L. Krebs) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (Johann Pachelbel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, March 1993]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (Samuel Scheidt) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I – Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, March 2001]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (G.P. Telemann) [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 - Oxford]
Christ lag in Todesbanden (F.W. Zachau) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 – Oxford] [Organist's Companion, April 1987 & March 2000]
Concerto for Organ and Strings (Michael J. Starke)
Deux antiennes: Maria / Rabboni (Dom Paul Benoit) from Esquisses liturgiques [J. Fischer & Bros.]
Ershienen ist der herrliche Tag from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
Fanfare (Jacques Lemmens)
Fanfare on The Strife Is O'er (Alec Wyton) [Preludes, Fanfares & a March for the Liturgical Year – Flammer]
Fantaise über Christ ist erstanden (H.R. Basler) [Die Orgel im Kirchenjahr - Cron Luzern EC 270]
Festive Processionals for Organ and Brass (Calvert Shenk)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Easter Season, Set I – Morning Star Music Publ 10-402]
Grand chouer dialogue (Eugene Gigout)
Heut' triumphiret Gottes Sohn (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Easter Season [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-402]
Jubilation Toccata (Dennis Janzer)
Litanies (Jehan Alain)
New Hymn Accompaniments, Volume 1 (Donna Robertson)
Partita on Gelobt sei Gott (Theodore Ripper) [Organist's Companion, April 1987]
Prelude on O filii et filiæ (Healey Willan) from Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I [C.F. Peters Corp]
Prelude on Victimae paschali laudes (John Reese)
Regina cæli from Die Marianischen Antiphonen (Hermann Schroeder)
The Easter Sequence from Six Preludes on Easter Hymns (Wilbur Held) [Concordia #97-5330]
The Strife Is O'er (G. Winston Cassler) [This Is the Victory - Augsburg 11-9497]
The Strife Is O'er (Wilbur Held) [Six Preludes on Easter Hymns - Concordia]
Toccata from Symphony V (Charles-Marie Widor)
Toccata jubilante (Dennis Janzer)
Toccata on Gelobet sei Gott (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, April 1986]
Toccata on Lasst uns erfreuen (R. Evan Copley)
Tuba Tune (Norman Cocker)
Victimæ paschali laudes from Three Preludes on Gregorian Sequences (Mark Siebert)
Victory (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, April 1987]
Victory (Robin Dinda) [Organist's Companion, March 1991]
Vivace-Finale from Symphony VI (Charles-Marie Widor)
Ye Sons and Daughters of the King (Jan Bender) [Parish Organist, Book 8 – Concordia 97-1404]
Ye Sons and Daughters of the King (Camil van Hulse) [Seven Preludes on Hymns for Easter – Concordia 97-1390]

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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