Author Archives: maddg

This is another text by Shirley Erena Murray set to an older piece of music, this time by John Hughes. The sample at AOV demonstrates the traditional sounding tune with a radical message. Use it if you can’t sing “Who … Continue reading →

This is another recent text used on an older tune. Sr Miriam Therese Winter wrote the words and the tune is by Frederick C. Maker. It is supposed to sound like the sample at AOV. You can read a bio … Continue reading →

Frenzy Cool must have a big event coming up, because she’s looking for another backing, this time for this old chestnut. It was a hit for Red Foley in 1950 and was recorded several more times in America. Frenzy Cool … Continue reading →

This is another newish text, this time by Shirley Erena Murray, to an old tune by David Gregof Corner (seventeenth century). A sample can be heard at AOV. At Hope publications they have four settings, including this one, of this … Continue reading →

More traditional hymnody, this time a seventeenth century text by Joachim Neander, translated about two hundred years later by Catherine Winkworth, to an old German tune. You will realise you know this one when you hear the sample at AOV. … Continue reading →

A text by J.M.C. Crum to the tune Noel Nouvelet, that is very northern hemisphere in its Easter imagery. I’m sure it is better known as “Now the Green Blade Rises.” Remind yourself of the tune with the excerpt at … Continue reading →

A recent text by Brian Wren (1981) set to a familiar old tune by John Darwell from the 1700s, as you can tell from the sample at AOV. It is a setting of Ps 140. Listen to it played on … Continue reading →

This is a request from Frenzy Cool in the Phillipines. It isn’t one we’ve ever used – we use the Bernadette Farrell tune instead.  It is by Cyprian Consiglio who appears very prolific. I’ve worked this out from the sample … Continue reading →

My wife, who is a cradle catholic, knows all these old songs. Attributed to Ignaz Franz, translated by Clarence Walworth and a couple of hundred years old it comes from an old Viennese songbook. An excerpt at AOV plays it … Continue reading →

Words: Henry Francis Lyle Music: William Henry Monk Extra points for singing it without bursting into tears. The excerpt at AOV is lovely. YouTube is full of versions: here, here, here, etc. There are more verses, but I’ve stuck with … Continue reading →