This is another of Chris deSilva’s newer songs.
This one is for RCIA and I’ve scanned the sheet music and instructions to here:
He has lyrics for before and after the catechumens are baptised so he thinks of everything.
This has his trademark sing-ability.
You can learn it by singing along to my backing.
Voices As One has syncopated me into submission so I’ll finish volume two of that later.
I had been waiting for Chris DeSilva to put up his newer songs he gave us at the APMN conference in Perth last year on his website. That hasn’t happened so I’ll jump the gun and put up some backings of these songs, because they are good, usable, liturgical songs.
Chris describes “Jesus Promised” as a Trinitarian gathering song, which is based in part on Matt 18:20.
I’ve scanned the sheet music to here:
He put a held D in the song so you might want to drop the key from D to C if that bothers you…well it bothers me.
Entrance: Prepare the Way of the Lord (Boniwell)
Psalm 138 (McKenna)
I praise you for I am wonderfully made.
Gifts: Without Seeing You (Haas) AOV 2/158
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164
Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
Recessional: A Voice in the Wilderness (Robinson) AOV 1/60
This is a super syncopated P&W song written by a committee consisting of Paul Field, Henk Pool, Ralph Van Manen and Robert Roekerk. It appears to be popular.
The text is here. The sheet can be purchased at several places on the internet including sheetmusicplus.
Avalon
Wynonna Judd
Phil Hall
Jody McBrayer, Marcel Freire e Cia.
African Children’s Choir
Michely Manuely
The music team have chosen these songs for next Sunday’s liturgy:
Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12
Psalm 91 (McKenna)
Lord it is good to give thanks to you,
it is good to give thanks to you.
Gifts: We Walk By Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195
Thanksgiving: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
This is a great gospel song by Richard Cheri and Jalonda Robertson using Psalm 86. It is a spot for a talented cantor or better still, a choir. Nonetheless, it is obviously a usable liturgical song.
WLP have the sheet music for sale and the text in their sample.
I used an old MIDI style on BIAB for this.
This is a Vineyard song by Scott Underwood from the slow P&W genre. I can see a use in a commissioning liturgy.
The text is available here. Vineyard provide a chord sheet and the sheet music can be purchased at Praise Charts.
You can learn it by singing along to my backing, although when done live you would just repeat it until you felt like stopping.
Paul A. Tate has written a perfectly usable, liturgically appropriate song for communion that can be sung by an assembly with ease. That is somewhat a rarity in Voices As One so it is worth mentioning. You can add the harmonies for a choir but it is good enough without them.
The text is their sample and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP.
I’m carrying on with songs from Voice As One Vol 2 that I have not covered elsewhere. This is a touching Christmas song by Joe Mattingly.
It has a refrain for the assembly that is singable and some work for a cantor in the verses. As written, a soloist is needed as the notes cross over. It would suit a choir and soloist better than a congregation I suspect.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP and the text is in their sample.
