Music Notes Sept. 19, 2010
Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI
Pentecost 17 (Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity)
Green – September 19, 2010 - Year C – RCL
Summer Choir 8:45 to rehearse music for the 10 AM Eucharist
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Hymn 11 Awake, my soul, and with the sun Morning Hymn
Gloria S-280 Setting: Robert Powell
Psalm 79:1-9
Sequence Hymn 488 Be thou me vision Slane
Anthem Be thou my vision Richard Shepherd
Presentation Hymn 475 God himself is with us Tysk
The Great Thanksgiving - Sursum Corda
Eucharistic Prayer A
Sanctus S-125 Setting: Richard Proulx
Lords Prayer (spoken)
Fraction Anthem Behold the Lamb of God Choristers
Grace before meals arr. Murray Somerville
Communion Hymns 707 Take my life, and let it be Hollingside
711 Seek ye first the kingdom of God Seek Ye First
Dismissal Hymn 535 Ye Servants of God, your Master proclaim Paderborn
Music Notes: Continuing the theme ‘Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, O sing the honor of his holy name, give him glory evermore,’ this Sunday, September 19th, everyone is encouraged to bring someone with them to Emmanuel ... to share the prayer, praise and thanksgiving which represents what our Sundays and weekly preparations are about. I pray many of you will do that and also encourage someone to sing in choir, as well, to ‘make a joyful noise,’ as our choristers demonstrated last week when they jumped as part of the dancing rhythm of the 300 year old, Praetorius canon. Yes, that was planned and it had the benefit of not only adding to the ‘joyful noise,’ it served the purpose of teaching the syncopated rhythm that tended to trip up the singers as they sang. Thus, we learn, sing and enjoy fun together in thanks for the gifts God has given us. Using Voice for Life of the Royal School of Church Music along with Level 1 of a new pilot program called, Chorister Christian Education – Linking Music and Liturgy (CCE-LML), we have outlines to provide clear cut templates to follow as we (adults and choristers) grow as choir members and as Christian members of faith at Emmanuel Church. I encourage parents to read this choral material to help support your chorister’s learning and at the same time you’ll be surprised how much you may learn about music reading and theory and our service at the same time. Along with vocal training, our choir repertoire includes liturgy, hymns, psalms, and anthems to be sung as they are prepared.
Our first Chorister Christian Education – Linking Music and Liturgy (CCE-LML unit will concentrate on the physical layout of the church and understanding our Sunday worship printed program (service sheet), what’s in it and how it works. As adults, we sometimes take the awareness of such things for granted not knowing that youngsters may be struggling to understand, keep up and/or follow what is happening. It is not difficult to see why children might not want to ‘go to church,’ when they are internally-frustrated, not knowing what it is we are doing and why, on their level. Subsequent units will delve into the Hymnal 1982 and hymns, the Holy Eucharist, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Nicene Creed, all as they relate to the seasons of the church year. This curriculum is not meant to supplant Sunday school, but rather to help relate Biblical Sunday School teaching and lessons with what goes on in worship on a weekly basis toward enriching that solid foundation a chorister (any young person) will carry with them for the rest of their lives. This is an exciting life project going on every week and when people say they want to ‘do something in life that matters,’ here it is…what could be more gratifying than guiding a young person to understand, grow and mature as a young Christian – In more formal circles, it is called, ‘Christian Formation,’ and it was demonstrated most visibly and audibly in the RSCM summer singing course this past August. If you can help and I cordially invite any and all who can behind the scenes, please let me know. There is much to do and much about our choir program is posted on Emmanuel’s Music pages. Please take a look: http://www.emmanuelnewport.org/church/music/rscm-chorister-parent-letter/.
We are looking for bell ringers to ring bells during particular parts of the service, like the Gloria and Sanctus, as you may have seen/heard done by some of the choir; however, as it is difficult to both ring and sing at the same time, your help would free up a singer in our ongoing making of ‘joyful noises!’ in our worship.
Our anthem setting is by Richard Shephard, (b 1949), a former chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, who was subsequently educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After graduating he worked in Salisbury in a variety of teaching jobs while a lay-vicar in the cathedral choir. He is the Head Master of the Minster School, York and Chamberlain of York Minster, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Music Department and a member of the Court of the University of York. He is also Visiting Professor in the Music Department of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee and has served on the Archbishop's Commission on Church Music and the Church Music Commission on Cathedrals. We have enjoyed singing his ‘Addington’ Service at Emmanuel in the past. More may be read about Mr. Shephard at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shephard.
Peace and see you at worship – AJH
The Chorister Creed & Prayer
‘I will sing with the spirit and with understanding also’
The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 14:15
Bless, O Lord, us your servants who minister in your temple;
Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts,
And what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
