Alleluia Aotearoa is a seemingly never ending source of fantastic Shirley Erena Murray texts. It is worth buying the collection for them alone. (I’m sure the other songs are great too.)
This song – perfect for All Saints coming up soon – would also work for funerals or in Lent.
The text is at Hope Publications.
AA uses a setting by Douglas C. Mews.
I struggled to come up with chords for this one – its a good thing a write in pencil – but I cobbled together a BIAB backing.
Everybody wants to use a Shirley Murray text so they find a favourite hymn to suit. At Hope you will find three more of these settings. The chords for my backings start as guesswork and when that fails I look at the music properly! I know they are probably for church organ but there is only so many times I can fire upon the wind up BIAB organ setting before I get restless.
Hal Hopson‘s tune, COMMUNION OF SAINTS:
Charles V. Stanford‘s ENGELBERG:
Ralph Vaughan William‘s SINE NOMINE:
But wait there’s more – William Walsham How‘s SARUM was also suggested:
Even with much fine traditional hymnody to set her, everyone wants to set Shirley Murray’s texts again. Here is another go on Youtube:
Wendell David Glick:
Here are performances of SINE NOMINE: