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I covered this from its appearance in CWB I, only last year but it also turned up here in the New Living Parish Hymn Book. It’s a French hymn with a text by Didier Rimbaud SJ and was translated by … Continue reading →

It appears that this Christmas Carol is one I have never covered. The text and music are noted to be of traditional English origin. The text below has some emendations as found in this hymnal. This is a fine tune … Continue reading →

This is a C17 text by Thomas Ken set to TALLIS’ CANNON by Thomas Tallis (C16). It is a sung night prayer that finishes with the Doxology. There are minor variations in the text and I have listed that found … Continue reading →

Getting back to the New Living Parish Hymn Book, I find a song I haven’t looked at before, “Glory Be to Jesus” a hymn for Holy Week or Body and Blood of Christ. It’s the sort of traditional Catholic hymn … Continue reading →

I will close out my latest look at Paul Taylor’s Mass with his Agnes Dei. It is an outlier being in 2/4 time and in Bb (or Dm). I have trouble bringing this in so I just strum the opening … Continue reading →

I am having a further look at Paul Taylor’s Mass of St Francis, which is the only mass my current parish knows and is very popular all around Australia. You can buy his mass at Willow. We are up to … Continue reading →

These all take a similar form, which makes switching between them to mark different seasons pretty seemless. I don’t know that these sort of acclamations give composers a lot of kudos, but Taylor’s are perfectly functional and appropriate. The sheet … Continue reading →

After the Gloria, the high point of a mass setting is often the Sanctus and it is definitely so in this mass. Here Taylor starts with more than a nod to NICAEA and it’s “Holy, Holy, Holy”, to establish a … Continue reading →

TAs discussed yesterday, the published sheet music for Paul Taylor’s “Mass of St Francis” didn’t have a Gospel Acclamation and unsurprisingly didn’t have a Lenten one either. My last parish used this mass and also Paul Mason’s, “Mass of Glory … Continue reading →

When Paul Taylor published his “Mass of St Francis” in 2010, there was no Gospel Acclamation included and when you buy the collection at Willow, there still isn’t one. So we used the Celtic Alleluia for many years and all … Continue reading →