This is another great text in GIA Unbound. Written by David Bjorlin, it is an antidote to fear that excludes and divides. The tune was written by Eddie Cavazos.
Find it at GIA and read the words in their preview.
These songs are often too new to have YouTube clips, so sing along with my backings to learn them.
This is a delightful song for Christmas and beyond written by Chris Shelton and set to OLD CORNISH CAROL (aka MY DANCING DAY). It is found in GIA Unbound.
Read the great lyrics in the preview at GIA and you will love the tune too. It is a great new song for us to learn for Christmas.
This is a Christmas song for those whose Christmas is in winter. It’s not as recent as some of the others in Unbound, but they were putting up a lot of Christmas songs to give us material for the season coming up quickly.
It has words by Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. and music by Perry Nelson.
The sheet music can be bought at GIA, who provide the text in their preview.
I suppose the initial inspiration was Shakespeare, but Shakespeare’s text makes for a very different sort of carol:
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
In GIA Unbound this is a very new version of an very old text to a very old tune. Alan J. Hommerding has created his take on the “The Prayer of St Francis” for the eight hundredth jubilee of the saint. He set it to TALLIS’ CANON.
As always, the sheet music can be purchased at GIA, where the text is in their preview.
GIA Unbound does have a YouTube page but none of the ones I chose are there.
In my random look at songs from GIA Unbound I found this recent Carol Meier song for the Season of Creation set to her arrangement of the traditional tune WAYFARING STRANGER.
It works rather well.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA, who provide the text and commentary in the preview.
I have noticed that GIA keep recycling the songs that it displays in the “Unbound” section, so by the time I blog these songs they are no longer highlighted there. They are still recent songs available at GIA in any case.
This is a singular text looking at the link between science and faith that suggests itself for the season of creation and was written by Mary Louise Bringle. I initially thought it was “From Wisdom to Wonder” which a different but interesting thought.
The sheet music can be purchased from GIA who provide the text in their preview.
The setting is by Benjamin Brody.
This is another selection from GIA Unbound and is ideal for the season of creation.
The text by David Bjorlin is set by William Beckstrand (FOREST FEN). It can also be sung to KINGSFOLD.
The words are in the preview at GIA where you can purchase the sheet music.
This one has a clip on Youtube from the composer.
This is from GIA Unbound and it is Mary’s imagining of the world from the perspective of her baby Jesus.
The words by Carol Meier are set to the traditional English tune FOREST GREEN.
As always, GIA provide the text in their preview and you can buy the sheet music there.
This song from GIA Unbound finds Alan J. Hommerding finding words to fit the tune WIESBADEN NEW by Keith S. Kalemba.
It turns out that “these are everlasting: faith, hope and love.”
The sheet music can be bought at GIA where the text is in their preview.
This is another song from GIA Unbound. Set to BUNESSAN, Eli Cooper-Nelson has provided a text highlighting the wideness and acceptance in God’s love.
The sheet music is available for purchase at GIA where the text is in their preview.
Since these are mostly pretty new songs there are unlikely to be any clips of them on YouTube.
