I’ve finished the songs for Lent that were new to me from Gather 3rd ed in plenty of time with this one with a text by Thomas Troeger and set by William P. Rowan. There is an introductory stanza followed by fourteen verses, one for each station. The verses are short enough to allow plenty of silent reflection at each spot.
GIA provide the text here. They will also sell you the sheet music.
My backing is just once through.
This is the English translation of the greeting and the absolution from the penitential rite from the Roman Missal. (I cribbed that straight from GIA) Except for the bits written by Rory Cooney. The music is by Gary Daigle.
The assembly replies “Hold us in your mercy” to whatever the cantor sings. The melody is pretty much the same all the way through but the chords change every few bars.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is in their preview. I note their arrangement is for flute oboe and synthesizer.
My BIAB arrangement isn’t but does use some sampled voices. I am struggling with BIAB 2021 which is awfully buggy at the moment. I’m hoping some updates fix it soon.
Entrance: Come As You Are (Brown) AOV 1/31
Psalm 24 (McKenna)
Teach Me You Ways, O Lord. Teach me your ways.
Gifts: Galilee Song (Andersen) AOV 1/15
Communion: We Are Many Parts (Haugen) AOV 1/86
Thanksgiving: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness” (Grant) CWB II 468.
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
This is a very lyrical ballad for Lent by Lori True. The verses are just different enough to need a cantor, but the refrain is nicely singable. She provides a harmony line in the verse if you are after a choir piece.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is in their preview.
This is more for Lent from Francis Patrick O’Brien found in Gather 3rd ed. He has lots of songs in this collection but I’ve never heard any of his songs played in Australia. Maybe I don’t get around enough.
The sheet music is at GIA where the text is in their preview. I also got the tempo and the chords for the introduction there, because they certainly weren’t in the guitar edition I have.
Gather 3rd ed. has this song in their section for Lent by their favourite priest song-writer Francis Patrick O’Brien.
The verses are in G, the refrain is in E and there are some interesting chords. In places the tune of the verse sounds like passages from “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”. The text works fine for Lent.
GIA will sell you the sheet music and the text is here.
This is another Carol E. Browning song for Lent in Gather 3rd ed. She used The Jesus Prayer as a refrain and the Agnus Dei and Psalm 51 for the verses.
The assembly sings the ostinato refrain and a cantor can sing the verses over the top of them. I’m never sure if the songs that haven’t made it into more common use from collections like these are used less because of the need for a cantor or because they were written by a woman.
GIA will sell you the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
Assuming our lock down is only three days and we are back at church next week, we will use these selections.
Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90
Psalm 39 (McKenna)
Here I am, Lord; O come to do your will.
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread (Horner) AOV 2/155
Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
Recessional: Lord the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
This Kyrie by Carol E. Browning is allocated to Lent by Gather 3rd ed. I suppose a plea for mercy is especially meaningful in Lent, but a good Kyrie is for year round use.
I’ve had no luck finding this as an individual piece of sheet music at GIA, so I guess you’ll have to find it in Gather 3rd ed. collection.
For once the cantor gets only one word at a time and the assembly gets to sing everything else.
Kyrie eléison, Christe eléison, Kyrie eléison
For Greater Brisbane it is a return to lockdown so no mass this weekend. We have had one case of the UK mutant Covid 19 out and about, so the city and surrounds are under restrictions for now. Hopefully, the virus has not spread and we can back to normal next week.
In the meantime, Gather 3rd ed. has a lot of songs for Lent for me to do before Lent is upon us. After all these years and thousands of hymns the leftover ones I am coming across now are ones that may not have caught on around here. These songs tend to be Spanish, Gospel, require a cantor or were written by women and so ignored.
This one is by Paul Tate and requires a cantor. The assembly gets to repeat lines in the refrain and defer to a cantor or choir for the verses, so participation is reduced. That said it is an impressive choir piece.
This another that GIA only have in the handbell version as a single item but sheetmusicplus will sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
My backing is another fun Irish 6/8 version, so out of place for Lent.
