Church Music

This is another of the “Hymns for Healing” posted by GIA here.

GIA provide the text for John Bell’s powerful hymn here. If you are strong enough, you sing it to the tune WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT by Georg Neumark.

I’m looking at hymns that GIA has posted here.

This one is by Adam Tice asks of God the question “will you bring something good” out of the pain of existence.

It is set to INTERCESSOR by C Hubert H Perry.

I tried to make a backing but 3/2 is not natural for BIAB:

Small Church Music have an organ backing for this tune, which is much better:

GIA has posted , for a short time, some hymns to help us through the current state of the world. You can download the sheet music from GIA here.

Mary Louise Bringle wrote the text of this song and is set to the lyrical tune TEMPLE OF PEACE by William P Rowan.

The text is here and while it says adapted by Mack Wilberg the text is unaltered-Wilberg merely set it to his own tune that is unusable outside of a choir context. GIA sells the fuller version here.

I made a backing with chords from the reverse chord identifier and BIAB:

Just for fun this Wilberg’s setting – interesting but not for an assembly:

GIA sent an e-mail about some Hymns for Healing for which they were posting sheet music until September 1st. There are five of them to look at and “Shelter Me” by Father Joncas was so good I thought I’d look at these as well.

If you are looking for songs of lament you go to John Bell of course and this song that he based on a Norwegian text by Hans-Olav Mork is extraordinary.

For now, you can download the sheet music for free at GIA.

As usual when faced with piano music and no chords and being no keyboard player I played with the reverse chord finder and Band in a Box and came up with something nothing like John Bell did but there you go.

The music is a little curtailed with restricted attendance but we are still doing the Mass parts from the Mass of St Francis with spoken a Psalm and Gospel Acclamation. There is no collection so no music for Gifts.

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)

Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129

or: You Are My Rock (Chinn) – for our parish feast day at St Peters

Recessional: Christ be Our Light  (Farrell) AOV 2/3

This is a communion song new to me by Gregory Norbet. It has unfortunate leaps up to a held D at times that will require dropping the key from F to D for groaners like myself – I know the first note will then be a low A but active participation above all the things.

The Weston priory is nice enough to provide the text – they do own it after all – and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP.

I may have let BIAB’s trombone solo too high in the mix on this backing:

This is lovely:

This is James E. Moore Jr’s fine setting of this oft set Psalm. There are enough variations and complications in the verses to leave them to a cantor as suggested.

It’s not one I’ve heard around here but it appears in high rotation in the USA.

The text is at Cantus Mundi. This is a rare GIA piece in this OCP collection and GIA sell the sheet music here.

I actually have blogged this one before here, but I made a new backing just for fun.

If you are intending to buy a huge second hand loose leaf collection of songs you may find missing pages. Here I discovered 481 to 483 are missing. The only one of those I haven’t blogged is this one with a text by Genevieve Glen OSB set to IRISH, a seventeenth century Irish tune. I was able to find the music elsewhere.

It is recommended for healing prayer and anointing. I like it because, while it has scriptural references, they are not laid on thickly and the allusive poetic tone suits the gentle tune.

OCP sell the sheet music and provide the text in their preview.

This music is in E, while OCP bring it down to D (thanks be to God).