Author Archives: maddg

This a versatile song of praise by Twila Paris. It appears to invite repetition until exhausted and can be done in various styles – see below. The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased for download at various … Continue reading →

This is a Steven C. Warner song that has a refrain for the assembly or choir and verses for a cantor.  The melody for the verse has enough subtle changes to make the cantor earn their keep and the refrain … Continue reading →

This song for cantor and assembly by Lucien Deiss is being done by Chris’s parish for Gifts this week. The text is here (page 3) and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP. BIAB is not really designed for free … Continue reading →

This is yet another Paul A Tate song in “Voices As One”. It is a trinitarian gospel song with obvious liturgical uses. It is a WLP copyrighted song but does not show up anywhere on their website so I suppose … Continue reading →

This song is Paul A Tate’s paraphrase of Psalm 136.  He leaves out the bits about killing the first-born and powerful kings, but the rest is there. WLP subscribers can download the sheet music here, but the rest of us … Continue reading →

These songs were selected for music this week: Entrance: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158 Psalm 51 (O’Brien) Create in me a clean heart, O God. Gifts: Heal Me O God (Norbet) AOV 2/52 Communion: Unless a Grain … Continue reading →

Ah the glory of the metrical hymn.  Growing up in the Presbyterian tradition our wonderful long suffering organist, who must have endured hell from we dreadful children, seemed to me to be playing every hymn to one of about three … Continue reading →

I’m blogging the music book “Voice As One Vol 1” and since WLP songs have very little penetration into the Australian market, I’m finding lots of useful songs for liturgy that I didn’t know, and a few nonliturgical sacred songs. … Continue reading →

I’ve already done “Go Light Your World”, so I’m up to Paul A. Tate’s “God So Loved the World”. This is suitable just about anywhere in a liturgy being based on  John 3: 14-21 -entrance, gifts, communion – it fits. … Continue reading →

This is a song by Paul A Tate and Deanna Light that could be both a gathering song or a Eucharist song. I’d ignore the cantor call and response and just sing the whole thing together. The text is in … Continue reading →