Choir resources

Choir resources

This page contains the introits and hymns for upcoming services (with links to YouTube videos for each item) and practice resources for future introits, anthems, etc. And underneath the ‘Key Dates’ section is a diagram showing the standard chancel layout for the choir on Sunday mornings.

Key dates

Sunday mornings

  • 10:10am: For those who can make it, there will be a choir warm-up in the McInnes Room at 10:10am. (The McInnes Room is the ‘Choir Room’ on the left-hand side as you walk through the corridor that leads from the halls to the sanctuary.)
  • 10:30am: The start-time for Tryst Church Sunday morning services is currently 10:30am.

Thursday evening choir practices

Weekly choir practices re-commenced on 28th August 2025 and are held each Thursday at 7:30pm in Tryst Church.

Music for upcoming services and practice resources

Sundays 14th, 21st and 28th September 2025 (14th, 15th and 16th–Sundays after Pentecost)

For the next three weeks it will not be possible to update this webpage in the normal fashion. However, you’ll still be able to find out the introit and hymns for each Sunday, as described below.

Introits

For details of the planned introits (and of the anthem for 28th September), see the sections for the individual Sundays further down this page.

Congregational hymns

For details of the congregational hymns for the three Sundays, see the emails issued to all choir members and the Order of Service post on the church’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573916163742 ).

Future services

Note that these plans are subject to change.

Sunday 14th September 2025 – Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost and Holy Communion

Introit

CH4 655 – ‘For your generous providing’.  Words by Leith Fisher.  Music by Marty Haugen.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: tenors and basses
    • Verse 2: sopranos and altos
    • Verse 3: All

Recording: https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/655-for-your-generous-providing (This is audio-only. Scroll down the page and click or tap on the purple ‘Play’ button.

Sunday 21st September 2025 – Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  Service led by The Guild

Introit

‘New beginnings’.  Words and music by Harry Sergeant.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: altos, tenors and basses
      • Last two lines of verse: All
    • Verse 2: sopranos
      • Last two lines of verse: All
    • Verse 3: All

Sunday 28th September 2025 – Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  Harvest Service

Introit

CH4 211 – ‘Today I awake’.  Words by John L Bell and Graham Maule.  Music by John L Bell.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: soloist
    • Verse 2: sopranos and altos
    • Verse 4: All

Anthem

‘For the beauty of the earth’.  Words by FS Pierpoint.  Music by John Rutter.

Soprano practice video
Alto, tenor and bass practice video (all these three voices are singing the alto part)

Sunday 5th October 2025 – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost.  Possible BB enrolment service

Introit

HFTP 238[1] – ‘Praise our God with shouts of joy’.  Words from Psalm 66 by Christopher Idle.  Music by David Peacock.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: All
    • Verse 2: tenors and basses
    • Verse 5: altos and sopranos
    • Verse 6: All

Sunday 12th October 2025 – Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Introit

CH4 203(2) – ‘When, in our music, God is glorified’.  Words by Frederick Prat Green.  Music by Marty Haugen.  Verses 1, 2 and 5.

Sunday 19th October 2025 – Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Harry)

Introit

AFTMV[2] – ‘Do you not know’.  Words by Martin E Leckebusch.  Music by Betty Roe.

Sunday 26th October 2025 – Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Introit

HFTP 157 – ‘Jesus, stand among us’.  Words by William Pennefather.  Music by Christopher Norton.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: tenors and basses
    • Verse 2: altos and sopranos
    • Verse 3: All

Sunday 2nd November 2025 – Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Introit

CH4 199 – ‘One thing I ask’.  Words (from Psalm 84) and music by Andy Park.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: altos and sopranos
    • Verse 2: tenors and basses
    • Coda: All

Sunday 9th November 19th 2025 – Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost / Remembrance

Introit

SOGP 25 – ‘Donna nobis pacem in terra’.  Music by the Iona Community.

Anthem options

  • ‘In Flanders Fields’.  Words by John McCrae.  Music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson.
  • OR
  • ‘I dreamed of rain’ by Jan Garrett, arr. Larry Nickel.

Recordings of the two anthem options are below:

Christmas period

Possible items to include:

‘Gaudete!’  Words by John Parry.  Music: Piae Cantiones arr. By Ben Parry.

[1] HFTP = Hymns for the People

[2] AFTMV – Anthems for Two Mixed Voices

For possible future use

‘‘God of freedom, God of justice’ – CH4 263

  • Verse 1:
    • First four lines: Tenor / bass solo
    • Lines 5 and 6: All
  • Verse 3:
    • First four lines: Soprano / Alto solo
    • Lines 5 and 6: All

Tryst Church Choir Standard Chancel Layout

Below is a diagram showing how the choir layout on the chancel. When there are insufficient members to justify using both sides, the altos will sit in the third row of the right-hand side.

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