Music Suggestions
The First Sunday of Advent (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Ad te levavi [Liber usualis, p.318]
2. Ad te levavi [Graduale Romanum, p.15]
3. Ad te levavi [Gregorian Missal (2010), p.179]
4. Ad te levavi [Saint René Goupil Gradual]
5. Ad te levavi (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, J.J. Fux, Heinrich, Isaac, Chris Mueller, G.P. da Palestrina, Josef Rheinberger, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Xaver Witt)
Gradual:
1. Universi qui te exspectant [Liber usualis, p.320]
2. Universi qui te exspectant [Graduale Romanum, p.16]
3. Universi qui te exspectant [Gregorian Missal (2010), p.180]
4. Universi qui te exspectant [Saint René Goupil Gradual]
Alleluia:
1. Ostende nobis Domine [Liber usualis, p.320]
2. Ostende nobis Domine [Graduale Romanum, p.16]
3. Ostende nobis Domine [Gregorian Missal (2010), p.181]
4. Ostende nobis Domine [Saint René Goupil Gradual]
5. Ostende nobis Domine (Mariano Garau, Heinrich Isaac, Lorenzo Perosi)
Offertory:
1. Ad te Domine levavi [Liber usualis, p.321]
2. Ad te Domine levavi [Graduale Romanum, p.17]
3. Ad te Domine levavi [Gregorian Missal (2010), p.182]
4. Ad te Domine levavi [Saint René Goupil Gradual]
5. Ad te Domine levavi animam meam (Stefano Bernardi, J.J. Fux, Orlando di Lasso, Alessandro Scarlatti)
Communion:
1. Dominus dabit [Liber usualis, p.322]
2. Dominus dabit [Graduale Romanum, p.17]
3. Dominus dabit [Gregorian Missal (2010), p.183]
4. Dominus dabit [Saint René Goupil Gradual]
5. Dominus dabit [Communio (Richard Rice) p.67 / CMAA]
6. Dominus dabit (Ludovico Balbi, J.J. Fux, Heinrich Isaac, Jeffrey Quick)
Mass settings:
1. Missa XVII [Liber usualis, p.60]
2. Missa XVII [Graduale Romanum, p.764]
3. Missa XVII [Gregorian Missal (2010), p.143]
4. Latin Chant Mass XVII (Adventus et Quadragesimæ)
5. Missa XVII (Chant Mass, Sundays of Advent & Lent)
6. Missa Deus Genitor alme (Harry McMurray)
7. Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
8. Mass of Saint Jerome (Christopher L. 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

Hark! A Herald Voice Is Calling (ICEL #4, HPSC #183, CBW #453, CH #176, CHB #4, SMH #556, VII #227, SEC #795)
Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending (AH #304, CHB #7, SMH #617, EH #5, LCH #10)
O Come, Divine Messiah (ICEL #6, WIII #367, PMB #6, CD #803, HH #26, CBW #441, CH #173, SMH #651, LCH #4)
O Quickly Come, Great Judge of All (HH #21, VII #330)
O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide (HH #13, CH #181, SMH #685)
Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers (HPSC #287, HH #7, SMH #730, EH #4)
Savior of the Nations, Come (AH #302, CD #801, CH #184, HH #33, WIII #372, SMH #741, VII #228, LCH #12, SEC #798)
Sleepers, Wake! (CH #186, WIII #371, ICEL #11, AH #306, HH #25, PMB #10, CBW #451)
So Lately Sprung from Glory (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
To You I Lift My Soul (HPSC #337, SMH #802)
To You, O Lord, I Lift My Soul (CH #463)
Up, Awake, from Highest Steeple (HPSC #338)
Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying (AH #306, CBW #451, CH #186, HH #25, ICEL #11, PMB #10, WIII #371, CHB #10, HPSC #338, EH #3, LCH #11, SMH #819)
Wake, O Wake, and Sleep No Longer (WIII #371)

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

Ad te levavi (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Advent I [Liber usualis p.318]
Ad te levavi [ant] & Psalm 25 [ps tone] (Greg chant) [Graduale simplex, p.54]
Ad te levavi from Eight Liturgical Rounds (Heath Morber)
Creator alme siderum (Rev. Thomas Buffer)
Creator alme siderum (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 1 [This is the proper Vesper hymn for Advent]

Organ Music

According to De musica sacra et sacra liturgia – Instruction on Sacred Music and Sacred Liturgy (September 3, 1958) —

81. The playing of the organ, and all other instruments is forbidden [at Mass] during the following times:

a) Advent, from the first Sunday of Advent until the Vigil of Christmas

83. However, the following exceptions to the rule may be made:

a) the organ may be played, and other instruments used, on holy days of obligation

b) the organ may be used on the third Sunday of Advent

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

Music SuggestionsThe First Sunday of Advent (EF)