Monthly Archives: March 2015

Music for Palm Sunday Year B 28th/29th March 2015

Entrance: Blessings on the King (Lynch) AOV 1/104 Psalm 22 (O’Brien) My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Gifts: Heal Me O God (Norbet) AOV 2/52 Communion:  We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81 O Jesus Christ Crucified (Connolly / McAuley) … Continue reading

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He Answers All Our Needs VAO 1/33

This is Ed Bolduc’s adaptation of Psalm 145 but it could easily by a song for Eucharist as well. The verses are designated for the cantor who will need to to do a show tune style leap in “He’s our … Continue reading

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He Is Exalted VAO 1/32

This a versatile song of praise by Twila Paris. It appears to invite repetition until exhausted and can be done in various styles – see below. The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased for download at various … Continue reading

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Harbor of My Heart VAO 1/31

This is a Steven C. Warner song that has a refrain for the assembly or choir and verses for a cantor.  The melody for the verse has enough subtle changes to make the cantor earn their keep and the refrain … Continue reading

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Grant to Us, O Lord

This song for cantor and assembly by Lucien Deiss is being done by Chris’s parish for Gifts this week. The text is here (page 3) and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP. BIAB is not really designed for free … Continue reading

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Great One in Three VAO 1/30

This is yet another Paul A Tate song in “Voices As One”. It is a trinitarian gospel song with obvious liturgical uses. It is a WLP copyrighted song but does not show up anywhere on their website so I suppose … Continue reading

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God’s Love is Eternal VAO 1/29

This song is Paul A Tate’s paraphrase of Psalm 136.  He leaves out the bits about killing the first-born and powerful kings, but the rest is there. WLP subscribers can download the sheet music here, but the rest of us … Continue reading

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Music for the Fifth Sunday in Lent Year B 21st/22nd March 2015

These songs were selected for music this week: Entrance: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158 Psalm 51 (O’Brien) Create in me a clean heart, O God. Gifts: Heal Me O God (Norbet) AOV 2/52 Communion: Unless a Grain … Continue reading

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Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Ah the glory of the metrical hymn.  Growing up in the Presbyterian tradition our wonderful long suffering organist, who must have endured hell from we dreadful children, seemed to me to be playing every hymn to one of about three … Continue reading

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God’s Holy Mystery VAO 1/28

I’m blogging the music book “Voice As One Vol 1” and since WLP songs have very little penetration into the Australian market, I’m finding lots of useful songs for liturgy that I didn’t know, and a few nonliturgical sacred songs. … Continue reading

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