This is a grand singable recessional with special application for Easter Sunday by Ricky Manalo. I don’t like held “D”s so I’d bring it down to F and risk the ire of guitarists.
As usual, OCP kindly provide the text in their preview and will sell you the sheet music.
BIAB has trouble pretending to be an orchestra.
This starts as a song of praise and turns into an exhortation for service and justice. I suppose that makes sense. It was written by Tobias Colgan OSB.
OCP will sell you the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
This is a song for Christmas by Dan Schutte with extra verses for Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord, so you can keep the song in use for a few weeks at least.
It is set to IN DULCI JUBILO. The text is in the preview at OCP where you can purchase the sheet music.
While I wait to see what the new Willow website comes up with later this week, I am going back the the Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005 from OCP. I have already covered the alphabetical hymn section and will skip the psalms and the redundant mass settings to the section called new music. This was a loose leaf collection so these were new songs to add presumably in 2006 and beyond.
This is a Dan Schutte song that I didn’t know. It is for Christmas and has verses for both Psalm 96 and Psalm 98 to choose from. It has a similarity in tune and theme to Bernadette Farrell’s “Christmas Psalm”. The verse wanders off into a different key with lots of triplets in an engaging way.
You can purchase the sheet music at OCP and the text is the preview they supply.
I’ll give Gather 3rd ed. a break after this last song for Christ the King. The text is by George K. A. Bell and it is here set to GELOBT SEI GOTT by Melchior Vulpius.
The text is here.
This is a C18 text by Edward Perronet for Christ the King. It is set to DIADEM. Note that there is more than one tune called DIADEM to which these words have been set – this is one from the Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book as harmonised by Richard Proulx. This one appears to be the least used by far.
All hail the pow’r of Jesus’ Name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him Lord of all,
And crown him Lord of all,
And crown him Lord of all.
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown him Lord of all!
Crown him, you martyrs of our God
Who from his altar call:
Extol the stem of Jesse’s rod,
And crown him Lord of all,
And crown him Lord of all,
And crown him Lord of all.
Extol the stem of Jesse’s Rod,
And crown him Lord of all!
O seed of Israel’s chosen race,
Now ransomed from the fall,
Hail him Who saves you by His grace,
And crown Him Lord of all.
And crown him Lord of all,
And crown him Lord of all.
Hail him Who saves you by His grace,
And crown Him Lord of all!
Oh, that with yonder sacred throng
We at His feet may fall!
We’ll join the everlasting song,
And crown Him Lord of all.
And crown him Lord of all,
And crown him Lord of all.
We’ll join the everlasting song,
And crown Him Lord of all!
Even I’m not going to object to this text. It is Philippians 2:10-11 and is out of copyright. It has been set as a canon by James E Clemens.
I’ve had no luck finding somewhere to purchase the sheet music online, so you’ll have to find it in Gather 3rd ed I suppose.
At the name of Jesus, every knee will bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth;
ev’ry tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Before I give Gather 3rd ed. a break for a while, I’ll run through their hymns for Christ the King that remain unblogged here. I anticipate the usual discomfort with older views of kingship.
Charles Wesley wrote the text for this song and it is set to DARWELL’S 148TH.
This is theologian and hymn writer, Mary Louise Bringles‘s valiant attempt to sing meaning into the Trinity with her poetry. Hymn lyrics capture an aspect of lived faith but unless you find a way to sing the catechism, the failure to achieve “truth” will make you a target. I don’t think the text will confuse any assembly, nor do I expect anyone to start a conga line.
The text is here followed by commentary of various sorts.
Gather use a setting called BEDFORD PARK by Robert Batastini.
GIA have their other setting (by William Rowan) for sale but only a handbell arrangement for this one.
Hymnary have a copy of the preview page that was once on the GIA site in the kinder key of Eb (Gather has it in F). You may need to find one of the hymnals noted at Hymnary to find the music otherwise.
This lovely song for Trinity Sunday in Gather 3rd ed. has a text by Brian Wren and is set to a delightful old tune called PROSPECT. It was originally a shape note song so is designed for acapella use.
The text and sheet music are available from my favourite people on the the internet, Hope Publications. GIA only appear to have handbell arrangements to purchase for download. Gather 3rd ed. has Marty Haugen’s arrangement.
This is from the Southern Harmony book that is a source of tunes like this one and BEACH SPRING.
