Author Archives: maddg

This song was sung at Chris’s parish recently and since I hadn’t heard of it I had a listen. Hymnary has all the details including links to the text, sheet music and arrangements (don’t you just love public domain). The … Continue reading →

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) Psalm 63 (O’Brien) My soul is thirsting for you, my God. Gifts: Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27 Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35 Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA … Continue reading →

Our parish will begin using this mass this week so I’ve made some rough recordings with a couple of the singers. We didn’t need the Alleluia because we’ve been using that for a while.  I blogged this mass in 2011 … Continue reading →

I am going through Spirit and Song Vol 2 making backings to get an idea of what the songs are like.  I’m up to Advent songs and this is a gentle song from Steve Angrisano. The text is at spiritandsong … Continue reading →

This is Pedro Rubalcava‘s setting of the Entrance Antiphons of the four Sundays in Advent. He adds a fifth to seventh stanza with general Advent themes, so you could sing the whole song or pick the appropriate verse for the … Continue reading →

This attempt to make a song from the readings each week is not producing songs for the assembly I’m afraid, but this is just how they come out. I liked an odd phrase from this week’s OT reading (Isaiah 22:19-23) … Continue reading →

I’ve skipped the Psalms in Spirit and Song Vol 2, as I did in volume one. I may get back and just do a run of their Psalm settings later on. That takes me from Ritual Music to Seasonal Songs and … Continue reading →

Steve Angrisano wrote this song which is pretty much only suitable for weddings. You can listen to the original here, where you can see that it is a fairly fiddly tune suitable for solo use. The text is at spiritandsong … Continue reading →

This is another of the wedding songs from the ritual music section of Spirit and Song Vol 2, this time by Janet Sullivan Whitaker. It is another solo piece on the pretty firm premise that wedding guests won’t know any … Continue reading →

This is a wedding song by Matt Maher based in the Song of Songs. It is designed to be sung as a harmonised and alternating duet but would need a pretty good duo to get away with it during a … Continue reading →