Music for Advent-4-A (Dec 23)

Readings:          486

Prelude:           Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland: Bach
Processional Hymn: 200: Savior Of The Nations Come
Kyrie:             Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Advent-
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         195: Creator Of The Stars Of Night
                  (11) How beautiful...break forth: Handel
Acclamations:      103-104-105: Mass Of Creation: Haugen
                  (11) Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Communion Hymn:    217: Lo How A Rose
Final Hymn:        190: O Come O Come Emmanuel (v=4,5,6,7)
Postlude:          Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes Sohn: Bach

Music Notes:

Readings are found in the hymnal under the headings
"Sunday A" and "Weekday 2".

The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Ecce virgo concipiet, et patrist filium: et vocabitur nomen
eius Emmanuel (Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and his name shall be called Emmanuel).

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) planned a set of 164
chorale preludes which included a set of four for Advent;
"Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland" (BWV 599) is the German equivalent
of our Processional Hymn (#200). "Herr Christ, der ein’ge Gottes
Sohn" (BWV 601) is a charming setting of a melody for the text:
"O Thou, of God the Father, / The true Eternal Son, / Of whom
'tis surely written, / That Thou with Him art one; / Thou art the
bright and morning star, / Beyond all other radiance / Thy
glory streams afar."