Monthly Archives: June 2015

You Are My Rock

This is the other “Peter” song that is sung at St Peter’s every year celebrating our patron saint.   It is by Andrew Chinn and the sheet music can be purchased as part of the collection “Let Your Light Shine” … Continue reading

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Do You Really Love Me?

This is one of the songs special to our local St Peter’s church and used for the Mass for our patron saint each year. The music from the parish says it is written by Carey Landry but OCP also credits … Continue reading

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Speak Now, O Lord VAO 1/86

Number 85 in Voices As One is “Sometimes By Step” which I have already blogged.   This song by Joe Mattingly is very much a choir song with a range beyond the assembly. I can’t find the text anywhere so … Continue reading

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Taste and See

Chris’s parish use James E Moore’s version of “Taste and See”.  A lot of the tune seems to be clustered around either  low C or high C with triplets to trip up in the verses. Best for cantor use I … Continue reading

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Song of Judith VAO 1/84

This is Steven C Warner’s expurgated version of the “Song of Judith”. The original text is worthy of Game of Thrones and would have made a very different song. If you aren’t using a cantor bringing it down from G to … Continue reading

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Music for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Tear B 4th/5th July 2015

We have slotted back into Maggie Russell’s Mass of Freedom well enough, although I still find the rewrite of the Gloria jarring in the second verse. We have never sung “A Place at the Table” before so that should be … Continue reading

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For the Fruits of This Creation

This song with a text by the prolific  Fred Green and with the tune AR HAD Y NOS (trad Welsh – “All Through the Night”) was used recently at RL’s parish. The snippet at OCP has it sung by children, … Continue reading

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Praise and Thanksgiving TIS 627

This song with a text by Albert Frederick Bayley was recently used at Ryan’s parish and is suitable for a rural parish where people make their own food or where there are environmental concerns (ie in the light of a … Continue reading

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Many and Great

This is another song from RL’s parish. It is by Ricky Manalo CSP and is a lovely song for Eucharist. It is a singable tune with no syncopation and my only quibble is a long held D. The text is in … Continue reading

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Show Us the Way VAO 1/83

This song is a general enough prayer to fit a lot of liturgical situations. It is by Deanna Light and Paul A Tate and is an uplifting hymn. The text is here with a link to a performance of the song. You … Continue reading

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