Back in OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book (c2005) for now, is this song by Grayson Warren Brown whose text he based on Revelation 19:1,5-8. There isn’t a lot to it after all the alleluia’s but as a song of praise it is enough. The verses are quite different tunes in different keys suggesting a cantor would be needed.
The text is at OCP in their preview and they will sell you the sheet music.
I’m taking the opportunity the new Willow Publications website provides to look for new liturgical songs. Many parishes that use As One Voice have found it such a useful resource that they have never gone beyond the music found there that was written up to the 1990s. Even As One Voice Next Gen is twelve years old now, and new music does not stop being written. Catholic Worship Book II in Australia has not been the game changer it should have been as it was somehow more out of date than AOV and Gather Australia despite being published decades later than those collections.
I have looked for new songs from GIA and OCP the two remaining corporates in the market but there is a sameness to their output. I think the reason AOV was such a success from the beginning was the combination of the best of the USA and England with the distinct voices from Australia and New Zealand. Smaller outfits like Willow, Hope Publications and Wild Goose are going to be needed to provide some seasoning to the musical liturgical blandness coming from the big players. It would leave a big hole in our catholic culture in Australia if Willow does not survive the transition to digital.
I’ll start by mining their liturgical selections looking for songs that have been written since the physical books were published and seek to create a successor to As One Voice Volumes 1,2 and Next Gen that we’ll call As One Voice: Digital (AOVD). I hope to buy a song or two a week to see what positive things have been created recently in Australia to enhance our liturgies. With AOV being a digital platform now anyone around the world can access their songs.
I’m starting with a beautiful and useful song written for the Procession of the Gifts but is obviously a fine communion song as well. The text is by Monica O’Brien and is set by Gina Ogilvie. There are some low notes at the beginning of some phrases but if you listen to the snippet at AOV it doesn’t seem to be a problem. It could be raised a semitone or two if absolutely necessary without cracking a high C. Gina’s flourish in the chorus where she draws out “gathered by our hands,” is masterful. I was surprised and happy to see a cover on YouTube for this song.
The sheet music can be purchased at Willow, where you can also buy the MP3 and see a preview of the first page of the sheet music. I’ve made a backing on Band in a Box for you to sing along to and Monica has given permission for me to reprint the lyrics.
1 We gather at your table to share this holy meal.
The gifts of bread and wine we give,
Our lives a sacred seal.
We come into your presence ready to receive.
We gather at your table, unfolding mystery.
Refrain
Bread and wine gifts of life, born of mother earth.
Gathered by our hands, for the table of life.
2 Ev’ryone is welcome in this meal we are made whole.
We give thanks for all your blessings of your wondrous love.
Refrain
© 2015 Monica O’Brien and Gina Ogilvie
This is Christopher Walker‘s acclamation for this occasion. It is an SATB arrangement so if you have the choir that can do that, go for it. The text is just “Jesus, you are truly the Savior of the World,” sung twice. OCP have the sheet music for purchase.
I’m not sure my backing helps much. The tune is 3/4 x2, 4/4, 3/4 x2, 4/4, so see how you go.
This Trinitarian song was listed as new music in 2006 in OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book.
The text of the first two stanzas is c6 by Ambrose of Milan and translated by John Mason Neale in the 1800s. The third verse is by Charles Coffin (c18) translated by John Chandler (c19) so not so new. The modern text has been fiddled with because getting rid of “thee” mucked up the rhyming scheme.
The tune BROMLEY is probably by Franz Joseph Hayden, although it has been attributed to Jeremiah Clarke. The tune goes off in memorable directions.
1.
O Trinity of blessed light,
O Unity of princely might,
The fiery sun now goes his way;
Shed now within our hearts your ray.
2.
To you our morning song of praise,
To you our evening prayer we raise;
O grant us with your saints on high
To praise you through eternity.
3.
To God the Father, heav’nly Light,
To Christ revealed in earthly night,
To God the Holy Spirit raise
Our equal and unceasing praise.
This is a Marian hymn with a text from the ever wonderful Delores Dufner and here set by Timothy R Smith. It is eminently singable and perfect if you need a new(ish) piece for this purpose.
As usual, OCP has provided the text in their preview and you can purchase the sheet music there as well.
The new website for Willow Publications, the home of As One Voice is up and running. It is a digital music and ebook source for all our liturgical needs.
The new Liturgical Song Selection looks great. You can preview selections and choose songs and then get the running order e-mailed to you.
This is an Irish funeral song to the tune of Danny Boy (LONDONDERRY AIR). That means a fair old range of notes. It is written by Paulette McCoy and is a good example of a well known tune being used with a text specific to an occasion. I think “Go Silent Friend” is a better choice for a funeral with this tune.
The sheet music is at OCP where the text is in their preview.
This is an Easter or funeral song written by Christopher Walker and Paule Freeburg. It is meant to be sung “victoriously” so might sound odd at a funeral. The refrain is 1 Cor 15:55.
OCP provide the text in their preview and will sell you the sheet music.
I couldn’t make the backing make much sense I’m afraid.
This is a bit of a cacophony.
I’m in the “new” (as in new in 2007) section of my old Guitar Accompaniment Book from OCP.
This is a very loose paraphrase of the Magnificat by Bob Hurd with a Spanish translation by Jaime Cortez … except the refrain, which is in Latin.
The tune is pleasant and most singable.
OCP sell the sheet music and provide the text in their preview.
This is obviously for Ash Wednesday. Cyprian Consiglio used Joel 2:13 for the refrain and Psalms 30 and 65 for the verses.
It is singable enough despite the octave leaps in the verses.
You can purchase the sheet music at OCP where they provide the text in their preview.
