Music Suggestions for Advent & Christmas (December 2023)

Season after Pentecost

Advent & Christmas – December 2023

From Ron:

For this issue of our newsletter, I’ve chosen to use this space to call special attention to the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany videos which may be found by scrolling down. While I record the audio, it is Christina who creates these visual gems using her video editing skills.

All of these are free to use and can be easily downloaded from our Vimeo channel. If it is helpful for your purposes, please feel free to edit the opening or closing messages if doing so better suits your needs. As a team effort, the two of us make these available as a Christmas gift to our subscribers and purchasers, as well as anyone else who happens to cyber-stumble upon them!

Blessings of the season to each and all... RK

Music Suggestions for Advent & Christmas – Year B

December 2023

REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY

Click on a title to view a melody line sample image,

available versions, comments about the song and more.

December 3

・1st Sunday of Advent (Hope)

---"A Minimal Hymn"

---"An Uneasy Carol"

---"Come, Christmas Child"

---"Dream a Dream"

---"Dust and Ashes"

---"Hands Shaped Like a Cradle" --------------(Advent Text Version)

---"Look Toward Christmas"

---"Star Child"

---"Where Is the Room?"

December 10

・2nd Sunday of Advent (Peace)

---"Dream a Dream"

---"Fresh as the Morning"

---"Hands Shaped Like a Cradle" --------------(Advent Text Version)

---"Let Our Earth Be Peaceful"

---"Look Toward Christmas "

---"Peace Child"

---"Star Child"

---"Welcome the Wild One"

---"Where Is the Room?"

December 17

・3rd Sunday of Advent (Joy)

---"All That We Have"

---"Child in Manger"

---"Dream a Dream"

---"Hands Shaped Like a Cradle" --------------------(Advent Text Version)

---"In Night's Deep Silence"

---"Look Toward Christmas"

---"Peace Child"

---"Star Child"

---"Where Is the Room?"

December 24

・4th Sunday of Advent (Love)

---"Child in Manger"

---"Come, Christmas Child"

---"Daughter Mary, Saying Yes"-------

---"Dream a Dream"

---"Hands Shaped Like a Cradle" --------------------(Advent Text Version)

---"In Night's Deep Silence"

---"Star Child"

---"Where Is the Room?"

---"Woman of Favor"

December 24 & 25

・Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

---"All Over Creation"

---"Child in Manger"

---"Child, When Herod Wakes"

---"Come, Christmas Child"

---"Dream a Dream"

---"Gift of New Sight"

---"Her Baby Newly Breathing"

---"Hold the Child Gently"

---"In Night's Deep Silence"

---"No Obvious Angels"

December 31

・1st Sunday after Christmas Day

・Holy Name of Jesus/Mary, Mother of God

---"A Hymn on Music and Praise"

---"Always There's a Carol"

---"God, How Majestic Is Your Name"

---"Hold the Child Gently"

---"Peace Child"

---"There Is No Child So Small"

January 1

・New Year's Day

---"Come In, Come In, New Year"

---"Daughter Mary Saying Yes"

---"Dream a Dream"

---"God, How Majestic Is Your Name"

---"Holy One" (General Version)

---"In the Quiet of This Day"

---"Now All within This Place"

---"The Wine of Life"

---"There Is No Child So Small"

A Reminder... Roll over the little orange "i" symbols in front of the versions available for each title on the Musiklus website. Doing so will reveal information and helpful hints specific to the version to which each one is linked.

Instrumental Videos for ADVENT

During the COVID pandemic we created four Advent instrumental videos, on the themes of hope, peace, joy and love. All four are piano and violin recordings accompanied by sensitive imagery. The violin parts are played by two fine musicians I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the years, so special thanks to Rheana Slack and Marie-Andrée Gray.

These videos are free for anyone to use. At our own church services, we used them as Preludes for our Advent online services, but I’m sure there are other creative ways to use them as well. If users have licences with either One License or CCLI, please report your usage in the normal way. Even if they are not used in services, you may wish to consider adding them to your holiday listening/watching lists. RK

Advent 1 — HOPE

“Elizabeth's Greeting”

(inspired by

the poetry of Walter Farquharson)

Advent 2 — PEACE

“Put Peace into Each Other’s Hands”

(Hands Shaped Like a Cradle)

(inspired by the poetry of Fred Kaan)

Advent 3 — JOY

“Joy Is Now in Every Place”

(German Carol melody, ca 1500)

Advent 4 — LOVE

“Hold the Child Gently”

(inspired by

the poetry of Walter Farquharson)

...additional instrumental videos for Advent & Christmas

"Angels from the Realms"

Music: Henry T. Smart, 1867

Arr. Ron Klusmeier

"Angels We Have Heard on High"

French Carol Melody

Arr. Ron Klusmeier

"Go, Tell It in the Mountain"

African American Spiritual

Arr. Ron Klusmeier

"In Night's Deep Silence"

Polish Carol Melody

Arr. Ron Klusmeier

"Still, Still, Still"

Austrian melody

Arr. Ron Klusmeier

"There's a Star in the East"

African American Spiritual

Arr. Ron Klusmeier

Our Media Files Fall into Three Categories

1. Audio Samples are located in the top of the centre column of each Song Title Page and are free for anyone to play.

2. Audio Accompaniment Tracks, where available, are located at the bottom of the centre column of the Song Title Page and may be downloaded by Subscribers and Purchasers.

3. Lyric, Image and/or Music Notation Videos, where available, are accessed, through links on the Song Title Page or Video Library page and may be downloaded by anyone.

IMPORTANT: When using any of our media files, please report usage to your ONE LICENSE and/or CCLI account.

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