The Music

Apostles is blessed with wonderful musicians who have worked hard to develop the gifts God gave to them for the glory to God!  The vocalists (the Schola Cantorum), soloists,  instrumentalists, the Brass Ensemble, the String Ensemble, the Percussion ensemble, Handbells, pianists, organist, and 3 conductors  give so much of themselves to present this music to all.  This year seven new songs or arrangements of songs have been added!  Following is a list of the music in this year’s festival:

Sans Day Carol                                Text: Sans Day Carol (St. Day Carol); 19^th cent. Cornish, first transcribed in the early 20^th cent.

Music: Stephen Caracciolo, b. 1955

Music © 2012 Birnamwood Publications (ASCAP),a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc., St. Louis, MO.  All rights reserved.

The Boar’s Head Carol                  Text: Variant of Wynken de Worde’s New Christmas Carolles of 1521

Music: attr. Richard Smert, 1435-1477; arr. James Carmichael, b. 1944

Arr. © 2012 Apostles Lutheran Church.  All rights reserved.

Good King Wenceslas                   Text: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866

Music: from Piae Cantiones; arr. James Carmichael, b. 1944

Arr. © 2012 Apostles Lutheran Church.  All rights reserved.

Deck the Hall                                    Text: Welsh traditional

Music: Welsh traditional; from Christmas Joy!, arr. Reginald Unterseher, b. 1956

Music © 2007 Oxford University Press, Inc.; assigned 2010 to Oxford University Press.  All rights reserved.

Jingle Bells                                           Text: James Lord Pierpont, 1822-1893

Music: James Lord Pierpont; from Christmas Joy!, arr. Reginald Unterseher, b. 1956

Music © 2007 Oxford University Press, Inc.; assigned 2010 to Oxford University Press.  All rights reserved.

O Christmas Tree                               Text: German traditional

Music: German traditional; from Christmas Joy!, arr. Reginald Unterseher, b. 1956

Music © 2007 Oxford University Press, Inc.; assigned 2010 to Oxford University Pres.s.  All rights reserved.

Here We Come A-Wassailing     Text: English traditional

Music: English traditional; from Christmas Joy!, arr. Reginald Unterseher, b. 1956

Music © 2007 Oxford University Press, Inc.; assigned 2010 to Oxford University Press.  All rights reserved.     

            

We Wish You a Merry Christmas Text: English traditional

Music: English traditional; from Christmas Joy!, arr. Reginald Unterseher, b. 1956

Music © 2007 Oxford University Press, Inc.; assigned 2010 to Oxford University Press.  All rights  reserved.

Gloria in excelsis Deo                    Text: from The Gloria; 4^th century Latin                                                                            

                                                                                           Music: first movement from Gloria; K. Lee Scott, ASCAP, b. 1950

Music © 2011 Birnamwood Publications (ASCAP) a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc., St. Louis, MO.  All rights reserved.

Angels We Have Heard on High        Text: French carol; tr. Henri Frederick Hemy, The Crown of Jesus Music, 1864

Music: French carol; arr. Edward Shippen Barnes, 1887-1958; descant, James Carmichael, b. 1944

                                                                                Descant © 2012 Apostles Lutheran Church.  All rights reserved.

Love Came Down at Christmas   Text: Christina G. Rossetti, 1830-1894; written 1885, alt.

Music: GARTAN, Petrie Collection of Irish Melodies, Part II, 1902; arr. Nancy Grundahl, b. 1947

Music newly composed © 2012 Birnamwood Publications (ASCAP) a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc.,St. Louis, MO.  All rights reserved.

Winter Solstice Carol                     Latin text: from the Magnificat antiphon for the second vespers of Christmas

                                                                                           English text: Giles Swayne, b. 1946              

                                                                                              Music: William Beckstrand, b. 1962

English text © 1998 Novello & Company Limited. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.  All rights reserved.  Reprinted by permission.

Music newly composed © 2009 Birnamwood Publicaions (ASCAP) a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc., t. Louis, MO.  All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

We Three Kings                                Text: John Henry Hopkins, Jr. 1820-1891, alt.

                                                                                                Music: John Henry Hopkins, Jr., 1820-1891; arr. Craig Courtney, b. 1958

                                                                                                Music newly composed © 2010 Beckenhorst Press, Inc., Columbus, OH.  All rights reserved.

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence      Text: Liturgy of St. James, 5^th cent.; tr. 1864, Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885, alt.

                                                                                                Music: PICARDY, French folk tune, 17^th century; arr. Robert A. Hobby, b. 1962

Music newly composed © 2010 Birnamwood Publications (ASCAP) a division of Morning Star Music Publishers, Inc., St. Louis, MO.  All rights reserved. 

                     

                                                                                                                  

O Come, All Ye Faithful                 Text: John Francis Wade, 1711-1786; tr. Frederick Oakeley, 1802-1880, and others

                                                                                                Music: attr. John Francis Wade, 1711-1786; harm. The English Hymnal, 1906