Songs to Sing in a Cathedral at Advent

Songs for Advent 2005

St. Elizabeth’s cathedral has been sitting cold and crypt-like for 2 years or so.  It seems ironic that we are waking her up after all this time at Advent …bringing light and warmth into her darkness after all this time with beautiful lights, smells, and the sounds of friends reuniting, laughter and lots of music and songs.

This is a collection of the songs to bring in the Advent season.  We’ll sing them at the four advent services  before Christmas, weaving in other familiar carols as well.  Hopefully, these songs will not be just for singing, but for Entering In. 

For Downloading, Listening, and Entering In
Christ Child Lullaby (1.7MB, 1:49 min)
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus (2.9MB, 3:02 min)
O Come O Come Emmanuel (3.7MB, 3:59 min)
The Night Will Never Stay (1.9MB, 2:01 min)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (4.1MB, 4:22 min)
Holy3 (4.2MB, 4:24 min)
Come Fall On Us, We Lift Our Voices, O Come All Ye Faithful (6.9MB, 7:23 min)

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Christ Child Lullaby (1.7MB, 1:49 min)
Traditional

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus (2.9MB, 3:02 min)
Words Charles Wesley 1745, Original Music Rowlan H Prichard 1830
Arrangement Janet Pressley-Barr

O Come O Come Emmanuel (3.7MB, 3:59 min)
Words : Translated Latin to English John M. Neale 1851
Music: “Veni Emmanuel”, 15th century

The Night Will Never Stay (1.9MB, 2:01 min)
Original Words Eleanor Farjeon / Music by Alec Wilder
Advent adaptation: Janet Pressley-Barr
Please check out http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farj.htm to discover some of the wonderful writings of Elenanor Farjeon, (1881-1965).

Original Poem:
The Night Will Never Stay
The night will never stay,
The night will still go by,
Though with a million stars
You pin it to the sky
Though you bind it with the blowing wind
And buckle it with the moon,
The night will slip away
Like sorrow or a tune.

by Eleanor Farjeon

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (4.1MB, 4:22 min)
Words :Li­tur­gy of St. James, 4th Cen­tu­ry; trans­lat­ed from Greek to Eng­lish by Gerard Moultrie, 1864.
Music: “Pi­cardy­,” French car­ol mel­o­dy; har­mo­ny from The Eng­lish Hymn­al, 1906

Holy3 (4.2MB, 4:24 min)
Words and music Mike Helm

Come Fall On Us, We Lift Our Voices, O Come All Ye Faithful (6.9MB, 7:23 min)
Come Fall On Us -
Ben and Robin Pasley,  /SESAC/© 1999 Blue Renaisannce Music, www.entertheworshipcircle.com 

We Lift Our Voices -
Words and music Owen Brock

O Come Let Us Adore Him -
Words: John F. Wade, cir­ca 1743, Music: “Ades­te Fi­de­les,” John F. Wade

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