Author Archives: maddg

This is a hymn for Christ the King set to DIADEMATA by George Job Elvey with a text by Matthew Bridges, except for verse four by Godfrey Thring. The New Living Parish Hymnal gives you the six verses below, but … Continue reading →

John de Luca has provided his arrangement of the plainsong version of this C7 Latin Advent hymn in the New Living Parish Hymn Book. I made a backing but don’t blame him: The Latin text: Creator alme siderum,aeterna lux credentiumJesu … Continue reading →

O covered this in the new (!) music for 2020 at OCP. This is John Mason Neale’s translation of a C8 text by St John Damascene based on Exodus 15. The tune is GAUDEAMUS PARITER, also known here as AVE VIRGO … Continue reading →

This isn’t in the New Living Parish Hymn Book, but Gio mentioned it in a comment and I thought I should follow up on it. This hymn by Jeanette Palmiter is from the 1800s and fades out of hymnals by … Continue reading →

I have covered this Eucharistic hymn already with a modernised text as provided in CWB II. To make those changes rhyme, quite a lot of other changes needed to made and there are other alternative lines in CWB II that … Continue reading →

I am enjoying doing the hymns from the New Living Parish Hymn Book. I’m finding hymns that are new to me, arrangements by John de Luca that improve on the original versions and it also gives me a chance to … Continue reading →

For the thrill seekers amongst us, the New Living Parish Hymn Book included Benjamin Britten’s arrangement of this cheery number. Does this really get played at funerals? It would need a very high level of expertise to pull it off. … Continue reading →

I covered this McAuley/Connolly Advent classic from its appearance in CWB II, but their work is always worth promoting. Note McAuley’s straight forward concise text. The sheet music is available at Willow. I’m leaning rather heavily on Chris’s LiturgyShare site … Continue reading →

This is also based on Veni Creator Spiritus but with far different lyrics, though still for Pentecost. It is here set to TALLIS’ ORDINAL. Godsongs has some background. It is in CWB II so I blogged it there. The backing … Continue reading →

More chant… This is Veni Creator Spiritus, a C9 Latin Pentecost hymn translated by Edward Caswell. John de Luca gave his arrangement of the plainsong chant for the New Living Parish Hymnal. I got the chords from LiturgyShare, where there … Continue reading →