Continuing with songs for Pentecost from CWB II brings me to Lucien Deiss’s song with a text based on Isaiah 61:1-2 and Luke 4;18-19. It is an interesting tune.
The text is here.
The sheet music can be purchased at sheetmusicplus.
CWB II actually gives the chords to this one , which helped for my backing on BIAB. I thought it sounded better at a fair clip but I suspect it was intended to be slower.
This is a Pentecost song from CWB II with a text by William Dalrymple MacLagan that is lifted into being a good hymn by the setting by Richard Connolly, who always does something interesting. I got the chords from Together in Song to make my backing.
Holy Spirit, Lord of love,
Wisdom coming from above,
Gifts of blessing to bestow
On your waiting Church below.
Once again in love draw near
To your people gathered here;
Since our great baptismal day,
You have led us on our way.
You have been our constant guide,
Ever watching by our side.
May we now till life shall end,
Choose and know you as our friend.
Give us life to live for you;
Give us love, for ever new;
Come, then Holy Spirit, come;
Make each heart your happy home.
Hymnary has a somewhat different text and suggestions for other settings.
This comes across as a somewhat pedestrian hymn with a text by Brian Foley set to LAUS DEO by Richard Redhead.
The text is here. It appears to be more usually set to ALL FOR JESUS (Stainer)
Having already done Dan Schutte’s wonderful:
… I have come to this Pentecost song with a direct text by John R. Peacey and here set to WOODLANDS by Walter Greatorex.
The text is at the wonderful Hope Publications, where they suggest the tune SHELDONIAN.
This is backing for WOODLANDS.
This is another song for Pentecost in Catholic Worship Book II. It is by Christopher Willcock and it is exciting and interesting but I fear of absolutely no use to any assembly I have ever come across.
That is because it is in 7/8 time. That is except for the introduction/interlude that goes 7/8 7/8 4/4 7/8. 7/8 time is just plain nuts.
I’d say it is a choir project or that Willcock did it to win a bet.
I would suggest you go to OCP and listen to this and if you think you can cope buy the sheet music there. The text is in their preview and since CWB II won’t give me chords I got them from OCP to make a backing. 7/8 on BIAB is no picnic.
If it wasn’t obvious already, the inclusion of this song is further evidence that CWB II was never seriously intended for ordinary suburban parishes.
We will still use the seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”.
Entrance: The King of Glory (Jabusch) Ritual Song 628
Gifts: Jesus Remember Me (Berthier) AOV 1/152
Communion: Behold the Wood (Schutte)
Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24
I am still plodding through CWB II’s songs for Pentecost. I have done:
… and so to “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, Come”.
This is an anonymous translation of Veni Creator Spiritus attributed to Rabanus Maurus c8-9th set to TALLIS’ ORDINAL by Thomas Tallis. I have previously blogged this set to LAMBILOTTE.
I foolishly guessed the chords here for my backing (not provided by CWB II) when I should have looked in Together in Song, where they provide chords and correct the archaicisms in the text. Such things were apparently possible in 1999.
Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, come,
From thy bright heav’nly throne,
Come take possession of our souls,
And make them all thy own.Thou who art called the Paraclete,
Best gift of God above,
The living spring, the living fire,
Sweet unction and true love.Thou who art sevenfold in thy grace,
Finger of God’s right hand
His promise teaching little ones
To speak an understand.O guide our minds with thy blessed light,
With love our hearts inflame;
And with thy strength, which never decays
Confirm our mortal frame.Far from us drive our deadly foe;
True peach unto us bring;
And through all perils lead us safe
Beneath thy sacred wing.Through thee may we the Father know,
Through thee the eternal Son,
And thee, the Spirit of them both,
Thrice-blessed Three in One.All glory to the Father be,
With his coequal Son;
The same to thee, great Paraclete,
While endless ages run.
CWB II gives three settings of the Pentecost Sequence. They all use Peter Scagnelli’s translation of Veni Sancte Spiritus a C13 sequence attributed to Stephen Langdon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or possibly Pope Innocent III.
378a/b is chant mode 1 arranged by Geoffrey Cox and goes into the Gospel Acclamation. 380 is essentially the same tune made metrical by Adriaan Engels. The text is here along with a vocal + guitar version of Engels’s arrangement.
I’ll leave those chant based ones alone because BIAB IS LOUSY AT CHANT.
379 is the setting by Samuel Webbe. Only verses 1,3,5,7 and 9 from the text noted above are used in CWB II.
This has a different but PD translation by Edward Caswell and the music is the same arrangement as CWB II..
I think we can knock this over in one blog post.
372 A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
373 Clap Your Hands All You Nations
374 Glorious in Majesty
This one is an absolute delight. It is a relic from the 70s with a text by Jeff Cothran and set to SHIBBOLET BASEDEH a traditional Jewish melody. The text is here.
You can purchase the sheet music at GIA, but fair warning, it will suggest the use of a recorder and a triangle. I still think it is great but I didn’t use those instruments in my backing. BTW I found my first major typo in CWB II – in the third line there is a Cm that should be a Dm.
375 Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise
376 Let the Earth Rejoice and Sing
Like 375, this is set to the familar tune LLANFAIR by Robert William and has a text by Melvin Lloyd Farrell. The text is here.
CWB II has found a couple of really good songs for this feast.
Rounding out the Easter songs in CWB II is this song associated with Lutheran worship, which according to CWB II has no author – they just say based on Rev 5. Other sources say it is a translation by John W Arthur of a Latin original called Dignus et Agnes and the copyright belongs to the Lutheran Church in America. You can find the stirring text here.
Its wonderful tune FESTIVAL CANTICLE, is by the late Richard Hillert and is copyright to him through OCP although the Lutheran Church of America claim copyright on their harmonisation. Then again Lutherans do sing better than Catholics so we give them some leeway.
OCP sell the sheet music here under the name “Worthy is Christ” and they certainly know who wrote it so there may be a potential copyright breach here. One Licence gives this number #07113 .
I had to redo my backing of the tune, because although it is used for another hymn I have already blogged it was a different arrangement.
Some Lutherans belting it out:
Some Catholics surprisingly doing just as well:
