Author Archives: maddg

A Christmas favourite of some charm, this song was written by Geoffrey Ainger. This is an odd looped version. The extract at AOV is more normal. You might want to take it down a couple of notches for kids to … Continue reading →

Another song by Robyn Horner with an interesting tune especially in the verses.  It is suggested as an Advent or Lent song, and I can see how that would work. You can hear an extract at AOV here. The last … Continue reading →

A fairly recent classic sounding hymn with music by the great Br Colin Smith to a text by Owen Alstott. A traditional sounding entrance or communion song of majesty and beauty, with a strong dose of Eucharistic theology. Each verse … Continue reading →

A traditional American folk hymn with a tune that’s sounds familiar but I can’t place. See if you know it listening to the excerpt at AOV. It must be famous, everyone from Joan Baez to Frank Sinatra has sung it. … Continue reading →

This is another psalm setting, this time of Ps42 by John Bell and Graham Maule of the Wild Goose Resource Group. Have a listen to the short extract at AOV –  it is a beautiful piece of music. The text … Continue reading →

A setting of Ps 89 by Christopher Willcock. Go to AOV to hear an extract. It is very grand and very long. It is classical enough to have been played on ABC Classic FM. The verses have different tunes – … Continue reading →

The liturgy team for this week have selected these songs for Mass this week. Entrance: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Psalm: Heal Me O God (Norbet) AOV 2/52 before and after read psalm Gifts: Come As You Are … Continue reading →

The last of the chants on this run in AOV2 – there are psalms after this. Don’t bother going to AOV to listen for this one as they have the wrong tune linked. This one is a traditional Russian Orthodox … Continue reading →

Another chant, for a baptism in this case, words by Pastor de Lasala and music James Jacka Coyle, a classical composer. As with the other chants, you can hear pretty much all you need to listen to in the snippet … Continue reading →

This is like a long chant, I suppose, to fit in with the run of chants in  AOV 2. It is by Robin Mann and it sounds like something Paul McCartney could have written in the early seventies. Listen to … Continue reading →