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This is a reimagining of Psalm 22 (23) by Christopher Idle. CWB used CRIMOND to set it, which is doubling down I suppose. Jubilate have the text, Hope the sheet music and Praise the backstory. Job done. Now to find … Continue reading →

The is a bit of an orphan setting of Psalm 26 (27) by Marty Haugen. You would expect Haugen’s work to be available but he wrote a more useable setting later on and that appears to have superceded this one. … Continue reading →

This lyric for Holy Week, by the poet Margaret Cropper, is set in CWB to MORNING SONG. It is admirably succinct. 1 The glory of our King was seenwhen he came riding by,and all the children waved and sang‘Hosanna, King … Continue reading →

This is a translation of St Ambrose’s Aeterna Christi munera translated by John Mason Neale and here set to the tradional tune AGINCOURT. I blogged this as part of a group of songs in CWB II, but I’ll give it … Continue reading →

This is another of the songs CWB sourced from the Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy from ICEL, which can still be purchased at GIA. The text for Advent and Christmas is by Omar Westendorf based … Continue reading →

Father Brian Foley based this hymn on the suffering servant passages in Isaiah 53, so it has a special use for Good Friday. CWB sourced this hymn for the New Catholic Hymnal and followed them by setting the text to … Continue reading →

I have somehow never come across this joyous Marty Haugen Christmas song from back in 1983, but it did appear in Australia’s Catholic Worship Book in 1985. It’s still available at GIA with arrangements for brass quintet and 2 octave … Continue reading →

The editors of CWB picked another James Montgomery (1771-1854) text and this time rather than attaching “alt” they say “adapted”, so I suspect greater changes. It could be for Pentecost but is especially for Ordination. Here , it is set … Continue reading →

In between the venerable hymn tunes with aged texts in CWB, there is the occasional folk mass era song that I somehow have managed not to find from other sources. This is a Joe Wise folk song from the sixties … Continue reading →

This is a Eucharistic text by Australian priest and theologian, David Michael Coffey, who died recently. CWB got it from the New Catholic Hymnal and set it to TALLIS’ CANON. Godsongs notes its use in NZ in the 1970s set … Continue reading →