I’ve already blogged this song by Gen Bryant, here, and we are using it as a recessional despite being a less than youthful assembly.
I purchased the download of the sheet music collection some time ago from Willow, but was happy to pick up a physical copy at the APMN conference last year.
The collection is available here and the song here.
I made a new backing to celebrate. This is more most worthy Australian Catholic music to support.
This song by Danielle Rose turned up in a liturgy posted by Gio and it is not one I have come across before.
This is a little bit country and is from her album, I Thirst. It was a WLP song that was swallowed up by GIA and is now available at GIA where the text is in their preview. It might work best as a solo. I like the line in the bridge, “This is Christ in distressing disguise.”
My backing is based on the preview and uses some of the piano arrangement for a change.
I’m wondering why so little of this collection is in circulation these days. Nineteen Seventy-eight was pretty late for the folk mass era and a lot of these somgs aren’t really folk anyway. I also suspect WLP was pretty small beer back then, which of course has now been swallowed by GIA anyway.
I shouldn’t call these mass parts redundant really, because Sonrise has written a still usable Gospel Acclamation and a Great Amen.
The words to the Sanctus have, of course, changed and the other acclamations no longer fit liturgically, but some could still be used as chants in other circumstances I suppose.
So here’s to the lived faith and creativity of Jack Miffleton, Ken Meltz, Angel Tucciarone, Donna Friewer, Neil Blunt, Willard F. Jabusch, Lucien Deiss and Sonrise.
Gospel Acclamation (Sonrise)
Holy, Holy, Holy (Miffleton)
Great Amen (Sonrise)
Praise and Glory (Miffleton)
Glory to You (Miffleton)
When We Eat This Bread (Tucciarone)
Lord, By Your Cross (Miffleton)
I’m nearing the end of A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal from 1978.
This version of Psalm 47 is by Angel Tucciarone and is a joy filled, singable psalm. It is also very out of print.
Getting back to the collection of out of print songs from A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal …
There’s a lot to like in Angel Tucciarone’s take of the psalm for Christmas. With all the variations of psalm texts since then it might have to be sung as a song rather than in its liturgical place. She leaves long vocal breaks in the verses giving an opportunity for taking a breath and instrumental solos if desired.
Just when I think history has erased everything from A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, another tunes arises phoenix like at GIA.
This Neil Blunt psalm for Penetecost is not out of print. The antiphon should be fine, although doubtless the verses won’t match whatever local or temporal version you or I currently have. I’ll be looking at another volume of Paul Mason’s wonderful psalms soon, which will be another chance to tie down the weirdness of Anglophone psalm wording choices.
The sheet music in Eugene Englert’s arrangement is available at GIA, where the text is in their preview.
Blunt’s original chords work fine:
Englert adds some sophistication so is less “folk” I suppose – note the more inventive bass runs:
This uses the original chords:
These doesn’t:
This is a Seasonal Psalm for the Advent season by Neil Blunt based on Psalm 85. The verses are several iterations from what is used now, soon, whenever, wherever – depending on where you are in the Anglosphere and time – but the response is the same.
It is from A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, which is out of print.
This is a Lenten Gospel Acclamation written by Angel Tucciarone from 1978s A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal.
This is still liturgically usable, if completely out of print.
The verses are meant to be slower and chanted and she gave two examples but I’m sure the rest of the Lenten responses would fit the tones. My backing attempts the tempo change but is at best a guide because BIAB is lousy at chant.
There are Acclamations and Responses in the the back of A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, including this Scripture Response by Ken Meltz, by which I think they mean a Gospel Acclamation.
I don’t think it could be used in a mass but this beatitude might find a place at a scripture group or other meeting where readings are used.
The sheet music is unavailable and out of print. (Let me know if I’m wrong please.)
It’s back to the wilderness of out of print songs from the collection A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal.
This is another song from Jack Miffleton, who I gather is better known as writing for children. It is a perfectly usable sung blessing with a harmony line for the adventurous.
