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This is another of Monica Brown’s mantras that indulges her skill in mixing up time signatures. It is a sung prayer for private contemplation that would still fit in liturgy. You can down load the whole sheet music collection, Holy … Continue reading →

This Monica Brown mantra from Holy Ground, is based on Luke 23:46. You can buy the sheet music for almost nothing at Emmaus. She is very fond of changes in time signatures in these mantras but it seems to work. … Continue reading →

This mantra by Monica Brown is based on John 6:67-69 and has liturgical uses (eg Gifts) as well as being for private contemplation. The sheet music is on the collection Holy Ground ($A5 at Emmaus). To whom shall we go … Continue reading →

This is another marvellous mantra from Monica Brown that we used back at St Edwards in the day. It is a sentiment from the psalms and still most relevant for now. The text is at Emmaus and the collection, Holy … Continue reading →

I came across a hard copy of Monica Brown‘s book of mantras. Monica Brown is an Australian composer whose music just seemed to be there when I was at St Edward’s, Daisy Hill back in the late 1990s and 2000s, … Continue reading →

The last song in the collection, Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1 from Liturgical Song, is this song for the Easter Sequence. This is Paul Mason’s setting of c11 text by Wipo of Burgundy, Victimae Paschale Laudes in the ICEL … Continue reading →

Paul Mason has included this arrangement by himself and Seth Harsh of William Henry Monk’s hymn in the collection Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1 (available at Liturgical Song). Rounding out the nine new releases is a wonderful contemporary piano … Continue reading →

Paul Mason used a C15 Dominican chant for this text as a basis for his version of the Stabat Mater, rather than the usual Gregorian chant. As for the text, I’m sure Edward Caswall did his best for the translation … Continue reading →

OK this one is a bit special, but I don’t expect to hear you singing it at Mass this week. Paul Mason has used the Song of Songs and the letters of Blessed Jordan of Saxony in what I interpret … Continue reading →

This is Paul Mason’s setting of the Pentecost Sequence attributed to Robert II, King of France and translated by Edward Caswell. This is another fantastic melody and it is frustrating not be able to hear his proper arrangement anywhere. You … Continue reading →