Church Music

This song with music by Roby Curtis and lyrics by Roby Curtis and Patrick Keady is more accessible and generally usable than the first few songs in the collection Revolution by Emmanuel Worship from 2006. It is more of a mid tempo praise and worship song.

I have actually looked at this when doing AOV NG in 2010, which means it is still in print at Willow. You can buy the sheet music there and hear a snippet of the song. The version I have in Revolution is the lead sheet version, but Willow also has the keyboard arrangement by Jared Haschek.

I didn’t update my backing track.

How beautiful are the feet of those
who bring good news of freedom
How powerful are the hands of those
who bring justice and healing
How wonderful are the lips of those
who speak mercy in Jesus
How beautiful are the hearts of those
who’ve been touched by Your love

Where would I be if I had not heard
You calling out to me?

Every man who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, shall be saved
And every woman who calls on
the name of her God shall give praise,
shall give praise
And every child who calls up-on
the name of the Lord shall be saved,
shall be saved
And all creation that bows
before the Lord our God
shall give praise, shall give praise to You

Jesus, I’m calling out to You (repeat)

© Patrick Keady and Roby Curtis 2005

This Patrick Keady song from Emmanuel Worship‘s Revolution collection from the 2000s sounds a bit like a Green Day song.

It is a solo vehicle that goes very high and involves a bell solo of all things, but is mostly a fast guitar thrash fun song for youth settings. It might be more useful taken a little slower and in a reasonable key.

This is another gathering song for a youth rally from Emmanuel Worship‘s mid 90s collection, Revolution. This one was written by Roby Curtis.

This is the voice of a new generation from twenty years ago. It is a solo vehicle with a daunting range and needs a guitar hero.

BIAB in my hands is not that, it sounds more mariokart than heavy rock.

I’m planning to spend most of the rest of the year going through the astonishing work, The New Living Parish Hymn Book, but as a brief change of pace I am going back to the recent past of 2005-6 and Emmanuel Worship’s Revolution.

Emmanuel Worship is a Brisbane based youth ministry that has been going many years and producing music along the way.

Much as I like uptempo, noisy music, I fear this was the apotheosis of rowdy, before becoming much more user friendly in recent years. It’s like the last hurrah of nineties numetal sound bleeding into this millenium.

Nonetheless, I’m hoping to find gems amongst them, and as with all forms of sacred music we can see lived faith in these songs even if we don’t always have the circumstance to use them.

Pope Benedict XVI’s quote, “Only from God does true revolution come, the definitive way to change the world,” is their starting point.

In previous communication with Emmanuel Worship, they were happy for out of print resources like these songs to be posted.

This song by Patrick Keady is a call to arms for a youth rally. The lead line goes impossibly high but there are singalong elements for the crowd to sing and jump up and down to.

My backing goes someway to domesticating the song, although I suppose that isn’t really the point.

I couldn’t find Youtube clips for this era of Emmanuel Worship but I can link to previews on Spotify.

This is the last song in Psalms for All Time Vol 3 by Paul Mason. Volumes four and five are planned for those with the stamina to match Mason.

The sheet music is at Liturgical Song.

This “psalm” is Isaiah 12 for the Third Sunday in Advent Year C.

It is typical of Paul Mason – clear well set out sheet music, guitar chords with bass runs and clear capoed options. He has notes for the piece, this time ten pages before it. After this song in the book there is the Liturgical Index and then what appears to be notes about the notes.

… and his music is uniformly of a high standard either for use as the psalm, if you have the cantors and such, or for consideration as a hymn.

His YouTube clips are great, we just need more of them.

Response

Cry out with joy and gladness:

For among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.

1 Behold, God is my salvation!

I will trust and not be afraid,

For the Lord is my strength and my praise,

And he has been my salvation.

With joy will you draw water from the springs of salvation.

2 Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name;

Make known among his peoples his deeds;

Proclaim that his name is exalted.

3 Sing to the Lord for he has wrought wonders;

Let this be known through all the earth.

Shout aloud and sing praise, shout and sing praise,

You who dwell in Zion.

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

This clip is listed as from Psalms for All Time Volume 4, even though the words are the old Grail and it was written in 2002, so who knows what he has in his filing cabinets already. So as a preview until it is released…

For Vigil this year, we are doing what we did last year:

For Vigil we will use Tony Alonso’s Exsultet and I’m hoping our priest will sing his bit. Last year we had an opera singer booked but she lost her voice and Father chanted the whole thing. Hoping for better luck this year, although he did a fine job. The sheet music for Alonso’s piece is available at GIA.

Here we use three psalms in the readings and we will sing the responses using Amanda McKenna’s settings.

Psalm 32

The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord,

The goodness of the Lord.

Psalm 15

Keep me safe O God; you are my hope.

Keep me safe O God; you are my hope.

Exodus 15

Let us sing to the Lord;

He has covered himself in glory.

We use Taylor’s Mass of St Francis as always, except we still use the Celtic Alleluia. We plan to switch to Taylor’s Gospel Acclamation soon.

Sprinkling Rite: River of Glory (Schutte)

Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna)

Communion: Glory in the Cross (Schutte) – Easter verses

After Communion: Alleluia! Love is Alive (Angrisano, Manibusan, Hart)

Recessional: Jesus is Risen (O’Brien/Ogilvie)

Our priest likes things quiet and basic for Good Friday, with no music except for Veneration of the Cross and Communion. That is fine with me, except I don’t think we should have communion on Good Friday.

Behold the Wood (Schutte)

Holy Darkness (Schutte)

Jesus Remember Me (Berthier)

The music for the Triduum is not going to change without a good reason.

Entrance: Glory In The Cross – Holy Thursday (Schutte)

Psalm 115 (Mason)

Our blessing cup is a communion with the blood of Christ.

Washing of Feet: As I Have Done For You (Schutte)

Gifts: Blessed Be Our God  (McKenna) AOV NG 13

Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread  (Horner) AOV 2/155

Procession to the Altar of Repose: Stay With Me (Berthier) AOV 2/88

This is Isaiah 12, which can be used as the “psalm” for the Baptism of the Lord Year B, as well as Easter Vigil and Sacred Heart (B).

For some Australian Catholics, we can only hear Frank Andersen’s lively chorus, so this is refreshingly different. Mason’s sheet music never has typos, but the “Lord” is missing from the text where I have put it in brackets.

This is by Paul Mason from Psalms for All Time Volume 3.

I must have been getting bored because this is the backing I made:

This is somewhat more sensible:

Response

You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.

Draw water joyfully.

1 Behold, God is my salvation!

I trust and will not be afriad,

For the [Lord] is my strength and my praise,

and he has been my salvation.

With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation.

2 Give thanks to the [Lord] invoke his name;

Make known among the peoples his deeds;

Proclaim that his name is exalted.

3 Sing to the [Lord] for he has wrought wonders;

Let this be known through all the earth.

Shout aloud and sing praise, shout and sing praise,

You who dwell in Zion.

Fo great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

We will likely go with the same music liturgy as in the past:

Entrance: Blessings on the King (Lynch)

Gifts: Glory in the Cross (Schutte)

Communion: We Remember (Haugen)

Recessional: Jesus Remember Me (Berthier)

The psalm response is Psalm 21:

My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?

If we sing it it will be Amanda McKenna’s tune.