Music at St Mary’s Church, Thornbury




Choir Music List 2024

Live streaming and recordings of services at St Mary’s, Thornbury are on this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNkUbB6tYzHdbDPJFSkdaZA


2026 Anthem Playlist on YouTube for rehearsing:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnbLbF20cQQTs5BbJ0aM_-UDz5Je421z



 

 

 

2024

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

07-Jan

Anthem: What child is this (arr Stainer)

 

14-Jan

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in Bb

 

 

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

21-Jan

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

 

28-Jan

Anthem: O nata lux (Tallis)

 

04-Feb

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

 

11-Feb

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Byrd

 

 

Canticles: Noble in B minor

 

 

Anthem: O nata lux (Tallis)

14-Feb

 

7.00pm

Ash Wednesday

 

Anthem: Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons)

18-Feb

Anthem: Ave verum (Pearsall)

 

25-Feb

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

 

03-Mar

Anthem: Teach me O Lord (Attwood)

 

10-Mar

ALL AGE SERVICE

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

Mothering Sunday

 

 

17-Mar

Anthem: Verily, verily I say unto you (Tallis)

 

Passion Sunday

 

 

24-Mar

O Sacred Head (during Passion reading)

 

Palm Sunday

Anthem: It is a thing most wonderful (arr Burton)

 

 

Were you there (at end of service)

 

28-Mar

 

7.00pm AGAPE SUPPER

Maunday Thursday

 

Introit: Verily, verily I say unto you

 

 

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

29-Mar

 

2.00pm SERVICE OF REFLECTION

Good Friday

 

Anthem: Vexilla Regis (Plainsong)

 

 

Crux fidelis (between readings)

31-Mar

Anthem: Gloria (Vivaldi)

 

Easter Sunday

 

 

07-Apr

No service

3.00pm REFRESH (Church Hall)

14-Apr

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Ireland in F

 

 

Anthem: The day draws on (Bairstow)

21-Apr

Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Pearsall)

 

28-Apr

Anthem: O taste and see (Vaughan Williams)

 

05-May

Anthems: O sing joyfully (Batten),

 

 

Now is the month of maying (Morley)

 

09-May

 

7.00pm

Ascension Day

 

Anthem: Oculi Omnium (Wood)

12-May

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Clucas

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in D

 

 

Anthem: Oculi Omnium (Wood)

19-May

Anthem: Veni creatur spiritus (plainchant)

 

Pentecost

 

 

26-May

Anthem: God so loved the world (Stainer)

 

Trinity Sunday

 

 

02-Jun

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

 

09-Jun

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Wood in D

 

 

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

16-Jun

Anthem: Ave verum (Elgar)

 

23-Jun

Anthem: How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer)

 

30-Jun

 

3pm BENEFICE SERVICE

07-Jul

Anthem: Ave verum (Pearsall)

 

14-Jul

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Rose

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in B flat

 

 

Anthem: Expectans expectavi (Wood)

21-Jul

Anthem: Brother James  Air (arr Bullard)

 

28-Jul

Anthem: O sing joyfully (Batten)

 

04-Aug

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

 

11-Aug

ALL AGE SERVICE

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)

18-Aug

Anthem:

 

25-Aug

Anthem: Lead me, Lord (SS Wesley)

 

01-Sep

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

 

08-Sep

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Dyson in F

 

 

Anthem: O sing joyfully (Batten)

15-Sep

Anthem: Sanctus from Missa Sancti Nicolai (Haydn)

 

22-Sep

Anthem: There s a wideness in God s mercy

 

29-Sep

BENEFICE SERVICE

 

06-Oct

Anthem: View me, Lord (Lloyd)

 

13-Oct

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Wood in D

 

 

Anthem: Verily, verily, I say unto you (Tallis)

20-Oct

Anthem: Ave verum (Elgar)

 

27-Oct

Anthem: Oculi Omnium (Wood)

 

03-Nov

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

REQUIEM SERVICE

All Soul s Day

 

Excerpts from Faure s Requiem

10-Nov

CIVIC SERVICE

SUNG EUCHARIST at St Arilda s

 

Anthem: Call to Remembrance (Farrant)

Anthem: Call to Remembrance (Farrant)

17-Nov

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

 

24-Nov

Anthem: Ave verum (Mozart)

 

01-Dec

Anthem: This is the truth sent from above (Vaughan Williams)

ADVENT SERVICE OF LIGHT

 

 

Creator of the stars of night

 

 

This is the truth sent from above (arr Vaughan Williams)

 

 

Advent Responses (Wilby)

 

 

The Linden tree carol (Archer)

 

 

O magnum mysterium (Byrd)

08-Dec

ALL AGE SERVICE

 

15-Dec

Anthem: Gaudete, Gaudete! (anon 16th century)

 

22-Dec

Anthem: I saw a maiden (arr Pettman)

LESSONS AND CAROLS

 

 

Sans Day carol (trad arr Rutter)

 

 

Rejoice and be merry (Parsons)

 

 

Riu, riu, chiu (Flecha?)

 

 

O little one sweet (Old German melody harm by Bach)

 

 

A babe is born (Mathias)

24-Dec

MIDNIGHT MASS

 

 

Sans day carol (Rutter)

 

25-Dec

CHRISTMAS DAY

 

29-Dec

BRING  N SHARE

 

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