I’m pushing on in Voices as One Volume 2 and come to this marvelous and apparently quite popular choir piece by Danielle Rose. I doubt it has a liturgical use, but if your think otherwise the assembly could do the refrain and the cantor the verses and the descant line in the refrain.
The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at her site or WLP.
She recommends it as a capella and the chords are provided for rehearsal and so is my backing.
This is a song for Eucharist by Michael John Poirier in Voices As One Volume 2. It is singable by an assembly, which is not always the case with WLP songs.
The text is here and while I can find a sample of the music at WLP I can’t see where to buy it there.
This is my BIAB backing of the arrangement in VAO.
Entrance: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60
Psalm 32 (McKenna)
Happy the people the Lord has chosen to be his own,
to be his own.
Gifts: Trinity Song (Andersen)
Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1
Thanksgiving: Lift Your Heart to the Holy One (Light- Tate) VAO 1/56
Recessional: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
This appears to be a venerable P&W vehicle from the 80s. It is by Adrian Howard and Pat Turner, although Hymnary lists them as adapters of the song so perhaps it has a previous existence.
The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at various places on the internet including here. The version in VAO is Ed Bolduc’s arrangement but I can’t find it for sale at WLP.
There are elements of the song that remind me of Peter Allen’s wonderful song “Don’t Cry Out Loud.” More the feel than anything else.
This is David Yackley‘s dance track version of the Beatitudes.
The refrain is quite singable for the assembly and while they suggest a choir or cantor for the verses they are only really a challenge of breath.
The text is the preview and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP.
Sadly, I don’t get to use the dance backings much for church music.
Today I have a song that starts “You viper’s brood” if that’s what you need for your liturgy.
It is by John Angotti and it is heavy rock that only requires the assembly to sing the title of the song in the refrain, with the rest a solo for a talented soloist.
The text is in the sample, here and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP.
This is an epic Aaron Thompson song that answers the question, can you get the “dromedaries of Midian” into a song.
You’ll need a versatile cantor and assembly the can take over the melody line of the refrain through two key changes.
I think it really is a choir piece but best of luck.
The text is the sample here and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP.
This backing was not easy.
The sequence is sung to the tune of “Song of Joy”.
Entrance: Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62
Psalm 103 (McKenna)
Lord send out your spirit and renew the face of the earth.
Gifts: Holy Spirit of Fire (Mangan)
Communion: Seed Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195
Thanksgiving: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
I’m back in WLP’s Voices As One Volume 2 for a while surveying any songs that I haven’t already blogged. If I skip one I’ve already covered it.
This is Paul A. Tate‘s update of a text by Charles Wesley. Tate wrote the music and added the fourth verse.
This is very singable call and response song, which is an invocation to rejoice… obviously.
The text is in their sample here and the sheet music can be purchased at WLP. It is also in this inexpensive collection.
Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76
Psalm 46 (McKenna)
God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.
Gifts: The Fullness of God (Andersen) AOV 2/62
Communion: Bread of Heaven (Manibusan-Hart)
Thanksgiving: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Recessional: Go Make Difference (Angrisano/Tomaszek) AOV NG 52
