Music Suggestions
The Paschal Vigil (Holy Saturday) (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Cantica post Lectiones: Tract I
1. Cantémus Dómine [Liber Usualis p.745-746]
2. Cantémus Dómine [Graduale Romanum p.239D-239E]
3. Cantémus Dómine pg.16-18
Cantica post Lectiones: Tract II
1. Vínea fácta est dilécto [Liber Usualis p.748-749]
2. Vínea fácta est dilécto [Graduale Romanum p.239E-239F]
3. Vínea fácta est dilécto pg.20-21
Cantica post Lectiones: Tract III
1. Atténde cáelum et lóquar [Liber Usualis p.751-752]
2. Atténde cáelum et lóquar [Graduale Romanum p.239F-239G]
3. Atténde cáelum et lóquar pg.23-25
Cantica post Lectiones: Tract IV
1. Sicut cérvus desíderat ad fóntes [Liber Usualis p.753-754]
2. Sicut cérvus desíderat ad fóntes [Graduale Romanum p.239I-239J]
3. Sicut cérvus desíderat ad fóntes pg.35-36
Litanarium Sanctorum:
1. [Liber usualis, p.756-759]
2. [Graduale Romanum p.239G-239I,239J-239K]
3. Pg. 26-28,39-40
Ad Missam: Alleluia
1. Confitémini Dómino [Liber usualis, p.759]
2. Confitémini Dómino [Graduale Romanum p.239L]
3. Confitémini Dómino Pg. 43
Ad Missam: Tract
1. Laudáte Dóminum ómnes géntes [Liber Usualis p.760]
2. Laudáte Dóminum ómnes géntes [Graduale Romanum p.239L-239M]
3. Laudáte Dóminum ómnes géntes pg.44-45
Ad Missam: Antiphon
1. Véspere autem sábbati [Liber Usualis p.761]
Ad Missam: Dismissal
1. Ite missa est [Liber Usualis p.762]
2. Ite missa est [Graduale Romanum p.239P]
3. Ite missa est pg.55
Mass settings:
1. Mass I Lux et origo [Liber usualis, p.16-18]
2. Mass I Lux et origo [Graduale Romanum, p.4*-7* in back of book]

Hymns

A Living Hope (PMB #61)
At the Lamb's High Feast (WIII #459, ICEL #65, HH #102, CBW #563, AH #411, CH #268, CHB #73, SMH #437, EH #89, VII #353, LCH #66)
Come and Let Us Drink of That New River (WIII #723, HH #123, CH #351)
Come, O Christian People, Sing (HH #110)
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (WIII #759, ICEL #217, HPSC #143, CH #626, CHB #211, SMH #491, EH #137, LCH #70, LCH #100)
Give Thanks to God for He Is Good (HPSC #162)
O Worship the King (AH #483, CH #571, HH #201, HPSC #268, PMB #138, CHB #255, SMH #689, EH #288, LCH #91)
Rejoice, Angelic Choirs (WIII #455, HH #104)
Send Forth from the Heav'ns (HPSC #292)
Sing of Christ, Proclaim His Glory (HPSC #302)
Sing with All the Saints in Glory (CD #824, LCH #67, SMH #754)
The Perfect Law of God (HPSC #327)
Thine Is the Glory (CD #829)
This Is the Day (PMB #65, HPSC #329, CBW #589, WIII #663)
This Is the Feast of Victory (WIII #458, CH #265, SMH #794)
This Is the Lord's Day from Hymns for the Liturgical Year (Kathleen Pluth)
Through the Red Sea Brought At Last (HH #107)
We Celebrate the Lamb's High Feast (HH #108)

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 (J.S. Bach)
Alleluia (Sr. Edith Scholl, OCSO)
Alleluia (Randall Thompson)
As Pants the Hart (Christopher Tye)
As the Hart Longeth (R. Evan Copley, Felix Mendelssohn)
Bless the Lord, O My Soul (M. Ippolitov-Ivanov)
Cantemus Domino (Gregorian chant) Canticle of Moses [Graduale simplex, p.143]
Christ, Our Passover (Healey Willan)
Christ the Lord Is Risen Again (John Rutter)
Christ the Lord Is Risen! Alleluia! (Roman)
Easter Psalm (Gary Penkala)
Exsultate justi in Domino (Ludovico da Viadana)
Finished the Strife of Battle Now (Steven Ottomanyi)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing (Donna Robertson)
Hallelujah from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
I Will Exalt Thee (Christopher Tye)
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (arr. Matthew Koraus)
Let All the Nations Praise the Lord (Volkmar Leisring) [Carl Fischer]
Misericordia Domini (G.O. Pitoni)
O Lord, How Manifold Are Thy Works (J. Barnby)
O sacrum convivium (Eugene Englert)
O sacrum convivium (Michael Lawrence)
Regina coeli (Gregor Aichinger, arr. Andrea Angelini)
Regina cæli (W.A. Mozart)
Regina cæli (Adam Taylor)
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous (George J. Elvey)
Saint Patrick's Breastplate (Charles Villiers Stanford) [Stainer & Bell / ECS Publ]
Sicut cervus desiderat (Gregorian chant) Proper Hymn for Blessing of Font [Liber usualis, p.753]
Sicut cervus desiderat (G.P. da Palestrina, arr. Andrea Angelini)
Sing unto the Lord (Christopher Tye)
Sing Ye to the Lord (Edward Bairstow)
Sitientes, venite ad aquas (Tomás Luis de Victoria) [Ricordi]
Surrexit a mortuis (Charles-Marie Widor)
Surrexit pastor bonus (Jehan l'Heritier)
Te Deum laudamus (Calvert Shenk)
Te Deum laudamus (F.J. Haydn, Jean Langlais, W.A. Mozart, Domenico Scarlatti)
The Master's Rejoicing (Jim Stanley)
The New Lambs of Christ (arr. Gary Penkala)
This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Alan Smith)
Those That Do Place Their Confidence / Psalm 125 (John Alcock Jr.)
Two Easter Anthems (Colin Brumby)
We Will Rejoice (William Croft)

Organ Music

The organ should maintain the silence of Good Friday until the Gloria, when it accompanies the joyful singing. A brief appropriate fanfare might precede the singing of the Gloria, during which the church bells are rung.

Allegro from Symphony VI (Charles-Marie Widor)
Allegro-Finale from Symphony I (Louis Vierne)
Alleluya (William Faulkes) [A Victorian Organ Album - Oxford]
As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams (Newman Powell) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
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)
Ershienen ist der herrliche Tag from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
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]
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Max Reger)
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
Incantation pour un jour saint (Jean Langlais) uses motives from the Litany of the Saints
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Easter Season [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-402]
Litanies (Jehan Alain)
Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Easter Season [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-402]
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 Victimæ paschali laudes (John Reese)
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)
Victory (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, April 1987]
Victory (Robin Dinda) [Organist's Companion, March 1991]
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.