Author Archives: maddg

The main purpose of this blog is for musicians of modest talents, like myself, to have an idea how a song goes according to the actual music, so they can learn to play it. Many strummers like myself can’t just … Continue reading →

The sheet music of this piece was in a sample bag given away at one of the As One Voice conferences. “Take,Lord” is a choral piece written by Matt Wessel using the prayer Suscipe attributed to St Ignatius of Loyola. … Continue reading →

This is a Taize chant I found at the bottom of a folder of forgotten backings. The text is at Cantus Mundi. My backing is just the music of the basic chant repeated ad nauseum. Learn then discard.

I’m still in an old folder of backings for songs that I have nearly forgotten.  I don’t think we used this one too often and it fell out of use. The text is here. (scroll down) On reflection it’s not … Continue reading →

I’m renovating old posts, looking for bad links etc, and I’ve found that I never blogged this song by Christopher Willcock SJ. I made a backing and forgot all about it I’m afraid. It is a setting of Psalm 102 … Continue reading →

This is a very beautiful funeral song by Marty Haugen that we used in other liturgies by just singing the refrain. I got it as part of the collection “All Are Welcome,” which can still be purchased at GIA. The … Continue reading →

This song by Jesse Manibusan, of “Open My Eyes” fame, must have played at least once for me to have had to make a backing.  The question is why we didn’t keep doing it – it sounds great. It is … Continue reading →

This is another backing from the recesses of my hard drive. When I started playing in a Catholic Church there were songs that were in the pores of everyone in the pews that I’d never heard and had to learn. … Continue reading →

These are the choices made for this week. I’m not sure we realised at the time that is was mostly Bernadette Farrell’s work. Entrance: Come to Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39 Psalm 130 (O’Brien) With the Lord there is … Continue reading →

I’m still looking through a folder of forgotten backings from many years ago and came across this. I only knew it from Enya’s version. I can’t recall what it was used for in the liturgy. All the wonderful solo and … Continue reading →