Author Archives: maddg

Paul A Tate has based this lovely song on Romans 8:31-39. The verses are listed for a cantor but they are singable by an assembly really, and even with the key change for the final refrain nothing goes too high. … Continue reading →

This gospel song by Tom Kendzia was used at RS’s parish recently and was a new one to me but is obviously a very popular song. The text is at spiritandsong and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP. … Continue reading →

I’m going through the collection “Voices As One: Volume One” making backings to help me learn the songs.  I’m also interspersing that with songs that have come up in the music from other parishes that people have posting on the … Continue reading →

This is the other “Peter” song that is sung at St Peter’s every year celebrating our patron saint.   It is by Andrew Chinn and the sheet music can be purchased as part of the collection “Let Your Light Shine” … Continue reading →

This is one of the songs special to our local St Peter’s church and used for the Mass for our patron saint each year. The music from the parish says it is written by Carey Landry but OCP also credits … Continue reading →

Number 85 in Voices As One is “Sometimes By Step” which I have already blogged.   This song by Joe Mattingly is very much a choir song with a range beyond the assembly. I can’t find the text anywhere so … Continue reading →

Chris’s parish use James E Moore’s version of “Taste and See”.  A lot of the tune seems to be clustered around either  low C or high C with triplets to trip up in the verses. Best for cantor use I … Continue reading →

This is Steven C Warner’s expurgated version of the “Song of Judith”. The original text is worthy of Game of Thrones and would have made a very different song. If you aren’t using a cantor bringing it down from G to … Continue reading →

We have slotted back into Maggie Russell’s Mass of Freedom well enough, although I still find the rewrite of the Gloria jarring in the second verse. We have never sung “A Place at the Table” before so that should be … Continue reading →

This song with a text by the prolific  Fred Green and with the tune AR HAD Y NOS (trad Welsh – “All Through the Night”) was used recently at RL’s parish. The snippet at OCP has it sung by children, … Continue reading →