Monthly Archives: April 2017

Some hymns sound more dated than others. This one, with it’s Sitz im Leben fully in the British Empire of the Victorian age, seems more dated than most. This one has a text by John Ellerton and is set to … Continue reading →

My survey of Gather Australia continues and I’m picking up the songs that I haven’t already blogged. John L. Bell is a frequent author of GA songs that I haven’t played in church or run across in AOV etc. It’s … Continue reading →

This is a succinct gathering song with a text by Delores Dufner OSB. The setting is by Rosalie Bonighton. I can’t find it any trace of this one outside of Gather Australia, which is a real pity. Maybe because the … Continue reading →

This is another gathering song involving John Bell. GA lists him as author of the text and tune. Wild Goose confirms that the tune is a tradition tune from the island of Lewis and Bell adapted it and also that the … Continue reading →

GA sure loves John L. Bell.  Here he has set a song of welcome and gathering to ST COLUMBA, which I have blogged here already. Bell gets you with lines like: Build, from the human fabric, signs Of how your … Continue reading →

The odd use of “for Ever” is from GA, but I note it is put more normally elsewhere. Suzanne Toolan SM does TAIZE in California and has done some work in their manner and this is one such song. As … Continue reading →

My survey of GA songs that I haven’t blogged already from AOV etc, I am coming across the more obscure songs, or ones that didn’t catch on in my neck of the woods.  This is one such processional by the … Continue reading →

This text is by Cyprian of Carthage from 252 AD. The text is at Hymnary and the tune by Olle Widestrand is called TJÄNSTERNA. Marty Haugen’s arrangement is available in a collection at GIA.

This is another Ruth Duck text set here to a tune called DOVE OF PEACE. The text is here. (page 2) She based it on Psalm 133 and Isaiah 2:1-4, and it is a beautiful prayer for unity. The tune … Continue reading →

Getting back to GA I find this simply put gem from Ruth Duck set to the sixteenth century tune TALLIS’ CANON by Thomas Tallis. It is a song of welcome and unity. The text is at Hymnary.  The music is … Continue reading →