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This is a lovely short song/prayer with a text by Brian Anthony Moore SJ and set to WINCHESTER OLD – you know “While Shepherds Watched …” and all. This is an Allans Music copyright and I can only find it … Continue reading →

This is another “modern” song that was chosen by the editors of CWB in Australia. It is a joyful song of praise that is noted have words by English folk hymn writer, Michael Cockett and music by Kevin Mayhew that … Continue reading →

This is a Marian hymn by Lucien Deiss with eleven verses in CWB. Breviary Hymns supplies some background and the sheet music appears to still be available at GIA. The text is here, interspersed with ads. It looks like I … Continue reading →

As published in CWB, this is a funeral song of two verses written by Edmund Stuart Palmer and set to DUN ALUINN. It does have the terrifying addition of “alt” to the text attribution so it is worth finding out … Continue reading →

This is another ICEL song that the editors of CWB got from the Resource Collection and Service Music for the Liturgy, which I note is still available from GIA. The text was by Ralph Wright and the music Austin Rennick, … Continue reading →

In my survey of songs from Australia’s original Catholic Worship Book, I am looking at songs I haven’t already covered from other collections. I am therefore coming across songs that have slipped out of use or were too traditional for … Continue reading →

I am finding some interesting obscurities in CWB. This is a song for Eucharist with a text by James McMullen. I can find nothing about him, except that this song appeared in three hymnals other than CWB, but even then … Continue reading →

This song was carried through to CWB II where a pretty setting by Richard Connolly was used, but in the original CWB, it was set to the Irish tune MISNEACH, which is also lovely. This was also the choice in … Continue reading →

Since I am going through CWB I looking for songs not already covered on my blog to date, I am basically looking at songs that didn’t become popular enough to be collected in CWB II and AOV etc. That may … Continue reading →

This is a recessional in CWB, which notes a text by J. Clifford Evers as set to SCHONSTER HERR JESU. It is neither. On the other hand Hymnary notes it appears in One In Faith with a text by Omar … Continue reading →