Author Archives: maddg

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 →

If you see a jump in the blogging of OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book it is because I have covered the songs already. This is a song based on Psalm 25 written by Huub Oosterhuis and translated from Dutch, by David … Continue reading →

This is a lovely song by Bob Hurd that would be fine for both entrance and recessional. It has a specific use for a liturgy concerning the Sacred Heart. The sheet music is at OCP where the text is in … Continue reading →

I can skip a couple of already addressed songs and look at a Lutheran wedding song mainly written by Harry N. Huxhold set to HYFRYDOL. Verse three was written by John Newton. The text is at Hymnary. The sentiments are … Continue reading →

I’m wading through OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book (c2005) and have arrived at a song with a text translated from a sixth century Latin text by Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, who sounds like a spell from Harry Potter. It is set to a … Continue reading →

This sounds an old song but it is quite recent with a text by Benedictine Father Harry Hagan and music by Randall DeBruyn. This should have lots of liturgical uses but its language is as “me” centred as a many … Continue reading →