Service Music:

Voluntary    Solemn melody    Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)

Sir Henry Walford Davies was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King’s Music from 1934 until 1941. In 1898 Davies was appointed organist and director of the choir at the Temple Church in London. With this appointment Davies began to be seen as a prominent figure in British musical life. As an organist he became well known both as a soloist and as a teacher – the most celebrated of his pupils being Leopold Stokowski. As a composer Davies achieved his most substantial success in 1904, with his cantata Everyman, based on the 15th century morality play of the same name. Everyman was tumultuously received, and in the next few years given by every choral society.

Processional Hymn 135    Songs of thankfulness and praise    Salzburg

Gloria S280    Robert Powell (b. 1932)

Sequence Hymn 529    In Christ there is no East or West    McKee

Offertory Anthem    You are my God    Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
Text: David Adams, 2005

You are the light that guides my way, you are the seeker when I stray,
You are my strength and my friend, you are the peace that keeps me calm,
You are my love and my sure light, you are the presence when hope is gone,
You are with me, I am never alone, you are the power that’s always there,
You are my God beyond compare, you are the one to whom I pray,
You are the Lord with me this day, you are my strength to my life’s end,
You are my God.

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God     Franz Schubert

Communion Motet    Ave verum corpus    William Byrd (1543-1623)
Words attributed to Pope Innocent VI (d. 1362)

Ave, verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine, vere passum immolatum in Cruce pro homine,
Cujus latus perforatum unda fluxit sanguine, esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.

Hail, true body born of the Virgin Mary, who truly suffered, sacrificed on the Cross for man,
Whose pierced side overflowed with blood, Be for us a foretaste in the test of death.

William Byrd as an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard, and consort music. Although he produced sacred music for Anglican services, sometime during the 1570s he became a Roman Catholic and wrote Catholic sacred music later in his life.

Hymn in Procession 423    Immortal, invisible, God only wise    St. Denio

Voluntary    Toccata on Great Day    Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)