Having exhausted the new material from Chris deSilva and needing a break from the syncopation of WLP’s Voices As One Volume 2, I’ll return to the Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005 from OCP. I’m getting to OCP songs that weren’t selected for AOV or Spirit and Song or were written after those collections were compiled. If I skip a song it means I’ve already blogged it somewhere and you can find it in the search window.
Tim Schoenbachler wrote this gentle Advent song that has a lot going for it. The changes in tempo are nice if your assembly is up for that and there are some interesting harmonic and melodic turns. I think OCP only numbered the song because they have other Maranathas.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their sample.
My backing strips out all the subtlety but can be sung along to for learning purposes.