Author Archives: maddg

Our music liturgy team has picked these songs for next week’s Mass. We are still using Mason’s ‘Mass of Glory and Praise” and probably will for a good while. We have been singing Haas’s “Song of the Body…” straight through … Continue reading →

This song is another being used at RS’s parish that is new to me.   It is by Steve Angrisano, Sarah Hart and Dwight Liles. The text is here and the sheet music is available at spiritandsong. I think it very good … Continue reading →

I’m continuing my survey of songs in Voices As One  Volume 2. This is a lovely chant by Joseph Sabolick. The lyrics are here. The sheet music is available to purchase for download at various sites on the net including an … Continue reading →

This song is being used at RS’s parish. The moving text is by Genevieve Glen OSB and set to MORRIS-RADER by Scot Crandel. The tune starts out conventional and goes all unexpected on us at the end of each verse. … Continue reading →

This is a joyous song from Paul A. Tate that sounds a lot of fun to sing.  There is a counter melody that you can hear in the You-Tube clip below. It could be used at Christmas, the Easter season … Continue reading →

Entrance: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20 Psalm 62 (McKenna) My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Gifts: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149 Communion: Bread of Heaven (Manibusan-Hart) Seed Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195 Thanksgiving: O Sacred Flame … Continue reading →

I have actually already blogged this song here when I was going through As One Voice: Next Generation, but commented on the arrangement, which was very slow. The arrangement here is nearly twice as fast and handles the repeats differently so … Continue reading →

I’m slowly making my way learning songs in Voices As One Vol 2 from WLP I’ve already blogged Angotti’s Come to the Table (226), which me brings me to Angotti’s “Veni, Creator Spiritus”. It is placed here as a prelude to … Continue reading →

This John Angotti song is a solo vehicle with a fiddly tune, bridge and several key changes that make an interesting song but not one for the assembly. It has a touch of the show tune to it. The sheet music … Continue reading →

This is an interesting idea. Steven C Warner of the Notre Dame Folk Choir has written a refrain that can use verses based on either Psalm 23 or 34.  He has four verses for each suggested for a cantor but they … Continue reading →