Author Archives: maddg

I gather the Sacred Harp music that Marty Haugen used for this song was meant to be sung unaccompanied. (… or did he take the words and write new music?) This may explain my difficulty in constructing a backing that doesn’t … Continue reading →

The Beatitudes we do most in our parish is the one by Mike Balhoff and Darryl Ducote from a band called The Dameans way back in the 60s & 70s. Way before my time in the Catholic Church but it appears … Continue reading →

This is the Beatitudes that every Australian Catholic knows.  It was written in the 60s by Peter Kearney.  It isn’t in As One Voice, so I thought I’d drop it in after David Haas’s setting in the previous post. The text … Continue reading →

This setting of the Beatitudes has never been used in our church to my knowledge.  Being Australian we know the Kearney one and we also do the Balhoff/Ducotte setting, so that might be enough. David Hass has written a very … Continue reading →

This is a song from the nineteenth century to the tune Kingsfold with words by Horatius Bonar.  I have a distorted memory that every second song in the old blue hymnal in the Presbyterian church I grew up in was … Continue reading →

This is another reflective chant from Erica Marshall with lots of uses. If you go to her site you can click on this track as one of her sample tracks and you can hear the whole thing done as a … Continue reading →

I like the idea of Mary singing a folk song. It sounds much more likely than the more magnificent settings, as it is a protest song after all. Peter Kearney has been writing songs forever, or at least since 1966 (The … Continue reading →

Br Rufino Zaragoza’s song based on St Francis’ Canticle of Brother Sun is a pretty tune and can be used as a four part round, which would be wild.  A cute children’s choir, complete with very enthusiastic pianist, sings it … Continue reading →

I know it isn’t Easter, but Joe Santsingh from Dalby sent me some music he has made, including this song by M.T. Winter. It’s nice to hear computer generated music made by someone who knows what they’re doing and also … Continue reading →

This is one of many settings of Micah 6:8 and, while we’ve never done it locally, it has a lot going for it. It is available to purchase for download at As One Voice. It is a gentle song by … Continue reading →