Author Archives: maddg

For the most part these are old hymns in the public domain. When I look at a new hymn book I am looking for something that liturgically useful but fresh and appropriate to the culture of the worshiping assembly. Many … Continue reading →

I’m still in Catholic Worship Book II and looking at the songs they suggest for Good Friday. They are mostly chant and old hymns so, while this is set to PASSION CHORALE, the text is at least fairly recent. It … Continue reading →

This is another setting of the Reproaches in Catholic Worship Book II, this time by Joe Wise. This one has a refrain and verses chanted by a cantor. My people, my people, what have I done to you; or in … Continue reading →

This is Jenny O’Brien’s setting of the Reproaches. She has two sections of chant for cantors and two refrains for the assembly. I’ve done a backing with guessed chords for the first refrain. My people, what have I done to … Continue reading →

Having already blogged: 320 Behold the Wood … I can continue to another song for Good Friday in Catholic Worship Book II. This is a chant called CRUX FIDELIS, a c6th Latin sequence by Venantius Fortunatus and translated into English … Continue reading →

Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning (Duck) GA 881 Psalm 91 (McKenna) Lord, it is good to give thanks to you, to give thanks to you. Gifts: Be Thou My Vision (trans Mary E. Byrne SLANE) AOV 1/9 … Continue reading →

With some misgivings I’m going back to a survey of Catholic Worship Book II, which will mean lots of music in a style to which I am not accustomed. I had got up to the songs for Good Friday and … Continue reading →

This is the last of the slightly more obscure Marty Haugen songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I hadn’t blogged when looking at other sources. This another anointing song that would also fit as a recessional or for … Continue reading →

This is another Marty Haugen song that is meant as a call and response between a cantor and the assembly in the vesres, but that I’m sure would work just as well sung through by everyone. It has an obvious … Continue reading →

This is Marty Haugen’s setting of the Magnificat that is in Gather Comprehensive. It is another call and response between an assembly and a cantor that could also be sung through just by the assembly. The sheet music is at … Continue reading →