Author Archives: maddg

Our music team is not selecting songs as we have no liturgies to facilitate, but I picked some suggestions that I would have put forward based on past liturgies and the the fact that I like the Haugen song. We … Continue reading →

This is another version of Phos hilaron for evening prayer, this time translated by Francis Bland Tucker and set to JESU DULCIS MEMORIA. The text is here. This lousy backing explains why I am not doing more chant backings. I’m … Continue reading →

I am up to evening hymns for the Divine Office now. This is a translation of a c4 Greek text Phos hilaron, by Christopher Idle. Jubilate, who own the copyright have graciously put the lyrics up here. It is set … Continue reading →

This is another setting for the Benedictus with a text by Owen Alstott set to a tune by Malcolm Archer. I can’t find anything about it on the internet so for those with CWB II who want to sing along, … Continue reading →

I’m just dipping in and out of the songs for the Divine Office. 187a is chant: … so I have skipped to James Quinn’s paraphrase of the Benedictus (the Canticle of Zechariah). The text is here (page 3). CWB II … Continue reading →

I’m way out of my depth with these songs for the Divine Office but I have enjoyed looking at them anyway. This one is for Sunday Morning Prayer Psalmody. Isn’t everyone just at Mass? It appears it can be sung … Continue reading →

Can I have suggestions for a streaming Mass? The Mass being streamed from the Cathedral in Brisbane is unwatchable even when it isn’t freezing repeatedly. I stumbled onto Shalomworld and I’ll see if there is something there today there but … Continue reading →

The team isn’t meeting since we have no masses for which to select music. We have special songs for this time of year that I suspect we would have chosen and I have put them in, but since this mass … Continue reading →

I often skip chant but I am enjoying these morning prayers. CWB II removes archaisms for their version of the text, which is attributed the Pope Gregory the Great. I’ve flipped the last two lines of the third stanza given … Continue reading →

This morning office hymn by James Quinn is a worthy prayer for any morning. The text is here – scroll down. It is set to CHRISTE SANCTORUM.