Author Archives: maddg

Randall DeBruyn based this song on Psalm 84 and OCP recommend it for funerals and All Souls day but it is a pleasant and singable vehicle, if unremarkable, and has a wider potential usage. My voyage through OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment … Continue reading →

Gerard Chuisano wrote the music and the refrain lyrics of this lament which is otherwise Psalm 13 from The Grail. The verses are all subtly different so a cantor is the right idea. The sheet music can be purchased from … Continue reading →

Posted for completeness I won’t put up a backing because BIAB CAN’T DO CHANT. It is Chant Mode VII and can be purchased at OCP where the English text is in their sample. The chant symbols are also here.  

Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Psalm 85 (McKenna) Lord, you are good and forgiving. Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195 Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35 Thanksgiving: The Reign of God … Continue reading →

This is a peaceful chant written by Sr Marianne Misetich SNJM with an obvious liturgical use. The sheet music can be purchased from OCP where the text is in their preview. My backing adds the descant after the first time … Continue reading →

I can skip a few songs already blogged from the Guitar Accompaniment Book from OCP   (c 2015) and get to this song. The text is nineteenth century American by an unknown lyricist and set to the delightful tune PLEADING … Continue reading →

This is a Tom Conry song for Lent. I like the invention in the verses both lyrically and musically. OCP have the sheet music where the text is in their preview. My backing is, in retrospect, lousy. This is more listenable. … Continue reading →

Joe also sent this song by Leo Watt that one correspondent has mentioned as their favourite Leo song. If you are after sheet music or other Leo Watt material you should contact him through his website. Here around this altar … Continue reading →

Joe has saved me from the mind numbing extent of the OCP Guitar Accompaniment Book by sending me a couple of his excellent backings. Joe is from rural Queensland and can actual play, so he makes his backings properly using … Continue reading →

Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20 Psalm 64 (McKenna) The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest. Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll/Walker) AOV 1/13 Gifts: Open My Eyes   (Manibusan) AOV 1/166 Communion: Unless a Grain of … Continue reading →