Ricky Manalo wrote this adaptation of Thomas Aquinas’s text and set it. It has been added to Breaking Bread for 2024.
It is a song for Eucharist and specifically for Corpus Christi and is long enough for a big celebration.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
This is another song from OCP’s selections for Breaking Bread in 2024. It is by Dan Schutte and is based on the Reproaches in the Good Friday mass and the ancient chant AVE VERA CORPUS. For once the YouTube clip from OCP does the material justice.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.
The refrain for the choir or assembly is metrical but the verses for the cantor (actually it would be great for the priest to sing it) are chant. My backing has my usual failed attempt to get some sort of metricality for BIAB to use.
Chris Brunelle is, as usual, marvellous:
This is a hymn for Holy Week consisting of Genevieve Glen’s text recently set by Justin Wedgewood. The tune is memorable and singable, which is nice. It has been chosen for OCP’s Breaking Bread for 2024.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
This is another of the songs chosen for OCP’s Breaking Bread for 2024. This is a communion song, with special reference to Lent. There are five verses and the last two are more applicable to general Eucharistic use.
The second half of the verse meanders over a few keys to maintain interest.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.
This is Steve Angrisano’s gentle setting of James Quinn’s text of “Ave Maria”. It has been added to OCP’s Breaking Bread for 2024. We have been using Aaron Thompson’s “Blessed One” as our Mary hymn but this one is another good option.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
Technically bilingual, this free adaptation of the prayer of St Francis only has one Filipino word in it, so is fine for English speaking assemblies. It is a lovely sung prayer that can be done simply or taken as far as you want as a choir piece. It was written by Maria R. Nieva and has been selected for OCP’s Breaking Bread 2024.
The sheet music is available at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
This is Janet Sullivan Whitaker’s worthy setting of words from the ICEL text for funerals. It has been added to Breaking Bread for 2024.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview. In my dreams Voces8 would sing it at my funeral.
Since I can’t do it justice like her arrangement, I let BIAB go a little trip hop.
Chris Brunelle is good as usual with his stripped back version confirming the virtue of the melody.
Since Voces 8 have not recorded this song, here is their arrangement of a great song about love and death from Ben Folds:
This is a great song for Baptism by Sarah Hart, that has been included in OCP’s Breaking Bread for 2024. It was one she sang at the APMN conference in September. It sounds like a traditional song but it is only six years old.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
This is a Christmas song that has been added to OCP’s Breaking Bread for 2024. The new parts are by Kevin Keil, which he merges with the MUELLER version of “Away in a Manger”.
There are two vocal lines that weave about and harmonise – listen to the YouTube clip to get the idea.
The sheet music is at OCP where the text is in their preview.
My backing for learning has the vocal lines at opposite ends of the stereo spectrum for clarity.
This is not a new song by Janet Sullivan Whitaker, but it has been added by OCP to Breaking Bread for 2024. It is the Exodus Canticle from the Easter liturgies. It is meant for a cantor and choir but could be sung through by an assembly if needed, though it goes a little high and is quite the production. Nonetheless, if YouTube is anything to go, by it very popular in the US.
The sheet music is at OCP where the text is in their preview.
