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All I could manage this week was a jazz style chant based on the reading from Romans 13:8-10. Love can’t hurt a neighbour Love’s never a threat If debt’s mutual love Go deeper in debt. © 2014 Geoffrey Madden Download … Continue reading →

This Advent song is certainly suitable for an assembly that can’t handle syncopation and that’s a rarity in this collection. Bob Hurd has written dignified and restrained hymn.   The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be … Continue reading →

This advent song in Spirit & Song Vol 2 has lyrics by Janet Vogt and Mark Friedman with the tune by Janet Vogt. It has a gospel swing feel in waltz time. It should be an easy song to sing … Continue reading →

This is another Advent song, this time written by Curtis Stephan. It appears fairly singable apart from an octave leap in the verses. The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. This is a … Continue reading →

This is another Advent song in Spirit & Song Vol 2.  It is written by Michael Card who appears reasonably famous – I’ve never heard of him. It’s one of those songs that builds to an amazing crescendo if you want … Continue reading →

Having just introduced a new mass setting (Paul Mason’s excellent Mass of Glory and Praise) all other music, apart from the psalm response will have to be familiar for a while, so no new songs until everyone’s comfortable with the … Continue reading →

I’ve written a song for Jeremiah who in the reading for this week (20:7-9) is a little upset with God and the world and everything. There may be occasions when others would want to sing along, so if you are … Continue reading →

This song is based on Psalm 24:1-3 and the text is the ICEL translation of the Entrance Antiphon for the first week of Advent. The tune is by Greg Lee and Bobby Fisher. Since they didn’t write the text I’ll … Continue reading →

This is an Advent song from Steve Angrisano that is joyous and uplifting. The verses have a hint of the traditional song , “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” in the tune and of course they share the source material from the … Continue reading →

Still in Spirit & Song Vol 2’s Advent songs, we find Joshua Blakesley’s setting of Isaiah 12. This is more singable than some of the other songs in here, with the syncopation within reasonable limits, but the third verse is … Continue reading →