Author Archives: maddg

I actually have blogged this one before here, but I made a new backing just for fun.

If you are intending to buy a huge second hand loose leaf collection of songs you may find missing pages. Here I discovered 481 to 483 are missing. The only one of those I haven’t blogged is this one with … Continue reading →

This is folk styled tune by Sebastian Temple for the RCIA or for use for Gifts, as a recessional or commissioning. The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music. The clips below show it is versatile enough to be … Continue reading →

This is a lovely song by Paul Inwood that would work well as a recessional. It has a singable refrain and somewhat trickier verses that he recommends for a choir or a cantor. Despite the key change in the verses … Continue reading →

Chris W has a concern he would like to share about music in the mass: Geoff, I hope I’m asking this question in a respectful way: were the increased dangers from singing considered? Perhaps Donna from Cranbrook might also answer? … Continue reading →

I played at Mass today with a total of 20 in the assembly randomly chosen from applicants. We are on the way back to normal with extremely low levels of Covid 19 infection in Australia and hopefully we can follow … Continue reading →

This is another Christopher Walker song. The handclaps suggest it is for children. Am I alone in suggesting this song might terrify some children. I wouldn’t be comfortable until a range of understandings about what the nature of Christ coming … Continue reading →

I can skip a whole lot of songs I’ve already blogged in the Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005 and get up to this Christopher Walker song. The music is his arrangement of a traditional song from the Cameroon. He wrote the … Continue reading →

I wonder if this Dan Schutte song is too grandiose for the suburbs. I’ve never heard it played around here but I’m sure it is a very usable song of praise and gathering. If you have the artillery – choir, … Continue reading →