I must be getting near the end of the Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that haven’t turned up elsewhere in the collections I have blogged to date.
This is a song for Eucharist but could be used to gather as well. The tune sounds so familiar I fear I’ve done it before under another name, or maybe he played it when he was out here for a conference a few years ago.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is in their preview.
I’m back to looking at Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive not already covered on this blog.
This one is his setting of Ruth Duck’s marvellous text, which fits with the fishermen songs I’ve done this week as a call to mission. She wrote this text for the ordination of her long-time friend Elizabeth Caldwell. It is also set to REGENT SQUARE.
Haugen’s music can be purchased at GIA, where her text is in their preview.
This is another call to mission with the fishing motif from last week’s gospel that Ryan heard at mass last week.
This is a challenging text by Sylvia Dunstan set to AURELIA by Samuel Sebastian Wesley. The tune is also known for its use with “The Church’s One Foundation”.
I am digressing from my Haugenfest to look at songs for fishermen that turned up in a liturgy Ryan attended last Sunday. They went all out with three of them to flog the gospel, two of which I was unaware.
This is a Sea of Galilee shanty by Suzanne Toolan and as Ryan commented goes at a fair clip and is laudably direct and narrative in scope with a broadening of the call to us all. I fear it will be slowed down and drag a bit without care.
Godsongs has some commentary on the song here. It also has an entry at the History of Hymns.
You can find the text here and the sheet music can be purchased at sheetmusicplus. GIA only seemed to be selling handbell music, which would be wild.
I’m surprised at how many Marty Haugen songs I’m finding in Gather Comprehensive that are new to me, but then he has been rather prolific.
This is a bright gathering and communion song that says it is call and response for a cantor and assembly but there’s no reason why the assembly couldn’t handle it all.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA, where the text is in their preview.
GC has six verses and you repeat the refrain the last time. I didn’t do that in my backing, I just went straight to the coda. I figure if you got through all six verses, repeating the refrain might be a capital offence.
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Mason’s “Mass of Glory and Praise”
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