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 was well.
You can now buy separately Paul Taylor’s official Gospel Acclamation published in 2024 for this mass. I bought the keyboard version and had to work out my own chords.
The intention is for the Cantor to sing six alleluias, the assembly replies with six more and after the verse there are six more for good measure with the high harmony line if the cantor is up for it. It is a welcome addition to Taylor’s mass and is certainly singable. It is in D and so I suppose follows on from the Gloria in the same key, although it really hasn’t much of a similarity to any other part of the mass. I do wonder why a cantor is needed for this Alleluia. Being done weekly it would quickly become familar enough to do once before and after the verse and belong to the assembly.
I made two backings of the alleluias through twice to get the idea. There was no tempo recommendation so I just found a comfortable speed.
However…
I blogged a different acclamation that was, I gather, an earlier attempt, in which he used the feel of the Memorial Acclamations for the Alleluia. It could be argued that this version is not joyous enough, but it fits the rest of the mass rather better, and having started to use it this year, we intend to continue with the unofficial one for now.