This Marty Haugen song is for the veneration of the cross on Good Friday has a haunting melody.
If you go to GIA, where you can purchase the sheet music, you will see two versions. As well as this one, there is one for the Signing of the Senses. The text is in the second part of the sample music there.
I’m not a hundred percent sure what is going on here but it is the right song:
I’m seeking out Marty Haugen sings that I haven’t come across elsewhere that are in my copy of Gather Comprehensive.
This is actually an African-American spiritual for which Haugen has written seven extra verses. The music is attributed to Barbara Jackson Martin, but it is elsewhere called traditional and merely harmonised by her.
The sheet music for this version can be purchased at GIA, where the sample pages give you Haugen’s text. In GC it is in G, but the website drops it to Eb, which is a good idea.
There are other versions on the web that share some of the words and have very different tunes.
This is vastly different version more like in Hymnary:
This is a setting of the Kyrie by Marty Haugen, and a lovely tune it is.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
If you go to GIA you will see in their preview a second ostinato, the Kyrie in English, and eight verses for a cantor to sing once the assembly is up and running on the basics. You can hear this in the clip below.
My backing is just the Kyrie.
This is another Marty Haugen song for Advent and Christmas from Gather Comprehensive. It has eight Christmas and seven Advent verses.
It is meant to have the assembly answering the cantor’s verse lines.
Some of the text is here.
Otherwise the text is in the sample at GIA where you can also purchase the sheet music.
To have a break from CWB II and get some singable songs on my blog I’m going to do all the Marty Haugen songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t already blogged from AOV etc over the years.
This is a joyous song for Christmas and Advent. I have my usual quibble about a lyric for the northern hemisphere, “though dark the winter and cheerless”. Maybe “though parched the summer and cheerless” works better for this end of the earth.
The text is available at Cantus Mundi.
It can be purchased for download at GIA.
Entrance: Summoned By Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18
Psalm 195 (McKenna)
All proclaim God’s marvellous deeds to all the nations.
Gifts: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
Thanksgiving: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 67
Recessional: Sing a New Song (Schutte) AOV 1/80
Ryan noticed that this Dan Schutte song shares a tune with another of his songs, “Beyond the Moon and Stars.”
It’s a nice tune that bears reuse.
The text is here and suffers from singing in God’s voice in some places if that is a problem.
OCP says it is based on Jeremiah 1 and is a hymn of comfort and encouragement that might be useful in the RCIA. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP.
I’ve gone back to Voices As One Volume 2 for a dose of Catholic rock music, which as previously noted, is not going to be in CWB II.
This is another of Ed Bolduc’s songs, which is going to be best as a solo vehicle I suspect despite the music listing a cantor alternating with two part choir vocals. Towards the end there are three vocal lines going.
I think it is a really good rock song for settings outside of Mass.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP where the text is in their sample.
These are similar to the songs I once blogged for a Corpus Christi Mass.
314 Sing, My Tongue, the Saviour’s Glory
I was wondering whether to make a backing for this, when I remembered the wonderful site Small Church Music.
I tweaked James Todd’s BIAB file:
1 Sing, my tongue, the Saviour’s glory,
of his flesh the mystery sing:
of the blood all price exceeding
shed by our eternal King,
destined for the world’s redemption
from a Virgin’s womb to spring.
2 Born for us, and for us given,
born to live like us below,
he, a man with us abiding,
lived the gospel seed to sow;
and at last faced death undaunted,
his self-giving love to show.
3 On the night of that last supper,
seated with his chosen band,
first the passover observing
he fulfils the law’s command,
then as food to his disciples
gives himself with his own hand.
4 Word made flesh! His word life-giving
gives his flesh our food to be,
wine as his own blood he offers;
then, though senses fail to see,
faith alone the true heart wakens
to behold the mystery.
5 Therefore we, before him kneeling,
this great sacrament revere;
ancient forms all have their ending
for the newer rite is here;
faith its aid to sight is lending:
though unseen, the Lord is here.Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium text Thomas Aquinas
6 Glory let us give and blessing,
to the Father and the Son,
honour, might and praise addressing
while eternal ages run,
and the Spirit’s love confessing,
who from both with both is one.
trans Edward Caswell
315 & 316 are the chant versions in English and Latin of the same text. To spare you my chant debacles:
This is a different translation but the right tune.
317 is the TAIZE chant “Stay With Me, Remain Here With Me”, which I have blogged here. CWB II gives six verses.
Time for a break from CWB II.
This is the last of the foot washing songs in CWB II and is a delightful tune with a wonderful down to earth text.
The words are by David Mowbray and it set to LEIBSTER JESU ( Johann Rodolph Ahle c17).
The text is at Jubilate.
I got the chords for my backing at Hymnary.
