Music for Passiontide

This sequence of words and music provides both the framework for a devotional service and a wide range of choral resources for use during Passiontide and Holy Week.

The 'stations' featured here are drawn from the selection in Common Worship: Times and Seasons. They follow the Passion narrative of the Gospel of Mark, from Gethsemane to Calvary, with readings and prayers.

The choral music offers flexibility in a wide range of styles and levels of difficulty for choirs of all standards. Congregational items include established Passiontide hymns and contemporary worship songs.

New or previously unpublished music includes:

• It is a thing most wonderful (Peter Moger)
• Wonderful Cross (Philip Wilby)
• The song of Christ's glory (Grayston Ives)

The Way of the Cross provides a valuable addition to the music and liturgy of Passiontide and Holy Week for churches of all sizes.

A reprint of Charles Wood's Passiontide cantata based on the Gospel of Mark, devised in collaboration with Eric Milner-White and first performed in 1921.

The work calls for solo tenor and baritone, chorus and organ, with other minor solo roles, and lasts approximately one hour.

A devotion for congregation and choir, first published in the 1950's.

This revised edition has been updated by Revd Peter Moger using Common Worship prayers and responses, but with the same format and readings as the original. An alternative set of readings, based on John’s Passion narrative, gives a fresh perspective.

The selection of music that has moved generations of church-goers remains the same, although re-set to enable a clearer score, so the music is fully compatible with the previous edition. Alternative hymns have been provided in the appendix.

A meditation in words and music on the Passion, devised by Michael Perham, now Bishop of Gloucester. Includes anthems by Sumsion, Whitlock, Stainer, Somervell, Harwood and Francis Westbrook.