Music Notes - February 7, 2010
Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI 
Sunday – Epiphany 5
February 7, 2010 - Year C - RCL
8:45 A.M. Choir Call to vest & rehearse at 9
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10 A.M. Eucharist
Entrance Hymn 535 Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim Paderborn
Gloria WLP-900 Setting: John Rutter
Psalm (spoken)
Sequence Hymn 706 In your mercy, you called me Halton Holgate
Anthem The Call John Bell
Presentation Hymn 48 O day of radiant gladness German Folk Song
Sanctus S-125 Setting: Richard Proulx
Fraction Anthem S-152 Christ our Passover Ambrosian chant
Lords Prayer – Sung to Greek Orthodox Chant
Communion Music Grace before meals setting M. Sommerville
Hymn 321 My God, thy table now is spread Rockingham
Dismissal Hymn 812 I, the Lord of sea and sky (see insert) Daniel L. Schutte
Music Notes: This week our music focuses on ‘The Call,’ after last week having heard the old adage, ‘A prophet is without honor in his own country.’ And with the annual meeting completed, we prophecy (i) as to where we’re headed in response to the call. So, our music is geared toward answering ‘the call…,’ as in ‘They left everything and followed Him,’ and we sing, ‘…here I am Lord…send me,’ by English composer, Daniel L. Schutte. This hymn presents another grounding point in Christ’s mission the world over, as well as here at Emmanuel and to repeat from last week, ‘…it is up to us, using God’s gifts, to see that Emmanuel continues to be that place of mission filled by the spirit – sending us into Newport & beyond. William Boyce, the composer of tune Halton Holgate, was baptized Sept. 11, 1711 in London, England and died this very date, Feb. 7, 1779 in the same city. Boyce was a chorister and later, student of organ at St. Paul’s Cathedral. His career as a composer involved many official positions, as he became composer at the Chapel Royal in 1736. Many of his anthems and church services were written for use there and at other London churches where he was organist; however, he also composed secular music for the stage, as well. 1 1.Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Halton Holegate, the Sequence Hymn tune name, is a small village located east of Spilsby in the county of Lincolnshire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire. 
According to Wikipedia, the village’s only facilities included a small chapel and a pub. When singing the hymn this Sunday, see if you too thin
k the tune might have been inspired by some of Boyce’s early experiences in one or the other of these two places.
Peace. See you at worship – AJH
