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.

Christmas 2025

  • Wednesday 3rd December at 2pm – ‘Christmas Old and New’ – Tryst Church Large Hall. Tryst Church Choir and friends performing some Christmas music for the Memories Group.
  • Thursday 4th December at 2pm – ‘Christmas Service at Airthrey’ – at Airthey Care Home, Paul Drive, Airth, Falkirk FK2 8LA. Note that we only need up to six choir members.
  • Thursday 11th December at 7:30pm – ‘Tryst Christmas’ – in Tryst Church. Tryst Church Choir performing some Christmas music as part of Tryst Player’s ‘Tryst Christmas’
  • Monday 15th December at 1:30pm – ‘Carols at Burnbrae’ – at Burnbrae Care Home, Burnbrae Road, Falkirk FK1 5SD. Note that we only need up to six choir members.
  • Wednesday 17th December at 3pm – ‘Carols at ASDA’ – at ASDA Stenhousemuir. Note that this is not just for choir members.
  • Sunday 28th December 2025 at 10:30am – Service of Lessons and Carols – in Tryst Church

Music for upcoming services and practice resources

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

  • ‘In Flanders Fields’.  Words by John McCrae.  Music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson.

Congregational hymns

  1. CH4 160 Praise, my soul the King of heaven – https://youtu.be/-n_BPn5BxH4?si=henYvp-tzp9R1OrO
  2. CH4 543 Longing for light – https://youtu.be/cEtyJsqxq_o?si=VAVhJCEnbprNsU0E
  3. MP 188 God is our strength and refuge – https://youtu.be/bA0zJnW1Rr8?si=CP25D8JMQ6XeAN4G

Note that the words in the above recordings might not be consistent with our hymnaries.

Future services

Note that these plans are subject to change.

Sunday 16th November 2025 – Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

Introit

Hymns for the People No. 62 – ‘Come let us join our cheerful songs’.  Words by Isaac Watts. Music by Henry Lahee, arranged by Roger Mayor.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: All
    • Verse 4: Sopranos and Altos
    • Verse 5: All

Note: The tune in this video is the tune we’re using, but the accompaniment is more modern!

Sunday 23rd November 2025 – Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Introit

CH4 34 – ‘O send thy light forth and thy truth’.  Words from Psalm 43 in The Scottish Psalter, 1929. Music from Scottish Psalter, 1615.

  • Performance plan:
    • Verse 1: All in harmony
    • Verse 4: All in harmony

Christmas period

Possible items to include:

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

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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