I will close out my latest look at Paul Taylor’s Mass with his Agnes Dei.
It is an outlier being in 2/4 time and in Bb (or Dm). I have trouble bringing this in so I just strum the opening chord a few times and launch. There is a lot going on here, so I simplify it a lot playing it on guitar. It is a gentle appropriate litany for this part of the mass.
The sheet music is at Willow.
So this mass was one of the six recommended settings by the Australian Bishops and was one of the more practical selections for suburban parishes without Cathedral resources. It found wide acceptance across Australia and is one that visitors to your parish have a good chance of knowing already. It was the mass my current parish chose years before I arrived and was certainly used at parishes I played at in Queensland. It doesn’t need my recommendation but it has that for sure.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:
Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:
Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:
Grant us peace.