Entrance: Joy to the World
Psalm 104 (McKenna)
The Lord remembers his covenant forever.
Gifts: Star Child (Shirley Erina Murray – Carlton R. Young) AOV 2/43
Communion: What Child is This
Away a Manger
Thanksgiving: Let There be Peace on Earth (Miller/Jackson) AOV 1/190
Recessional: Angels We Have Heard on High
A song of devotion from Jude Del Hiero via Vineyard. Probably not liturgical – more a slow burn P&W exercise but the none the worse for that. It seems to be popular in America.
The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at praisecharts.
Continuing to go through Voices As One Vol 2, this is a song by Rich Mullins and Mitch McVicker which could be sort of an Advent/Christmas song but might be better as a solo item outside of a liturgy.
The text is here.
The sheet music can be purchased at various places on the internet including musicnotes.
It is obviously huge in the States.
This is a very pretty song for Eucharist by Ed Bolduc.
It looks complicated when you look at the sheet music but is makes more sense when sung and it is at least feasible for an assembly to tackle.
The sheet music can be purchased for close to nothing at WLP and the text is hidden in their preview there. They also have a snippet to listen to there as well.
I couldn’t quite get the slow 6/8 time working on BIAB.
This is a gorgeous solo piano version that gives you a better idea of the feel:
Entrance: Sing Out Earth and Sky (Haugen) AOV 2/32
Wreath: All Is Wonder (Watts) AOV NG 4
Psalm: To You O God, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Gifts: The Magnificat (Kearney) AOV 1/52
Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155
Thanksgiving: Into the Darkness (Dawn) from “Songs of Fellowship” Book Five (No 70)
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
While generally noted for his choir work this Steven C Warner song is a perfectly accessible work for an assembly to use for Eucharist.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP, where the lyrics are in their sample.
I’m am now using BIAB 2018 on a new computer so there is a bit of a learning curve issue here with my backing.
This is a song suitable for marriage by Feargal King, that would also work in a more usual liturgy.
I’m not sure it would survive an assembly with its large leaps between notes so it might be best as a solo at a wedding. The text starts with John 13:34 and heads off into what sounds like psalms.
The sheet music is available for purchase at WLP where they have hidden the text in their preview.
This is Ed Bolduc‘s setting of Psalm 24.
The verses are fiddly enough to warrant a cantor but the refrain is gentle and singable.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP.
The text is hidden in the preview there.
308 in Voices as One 2 is Brenton Brown’s “Lord, Reign In Me”, which I have already blogged under it’s other name “Over All the Earth.”
309 is Aaron Thompson doing a version of Psalm 103. It says it is the ICEL text but it looks a paraphrase to me.
It is a medium rock song for Pentecost and the Easter season that will fill many liturgical niches. The verses are listed for a cantor but apart from syncopation there is nothing to deter an assembly from singing the whole song.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP and also at Sheet Music Plus. For some reason the preview of sheet music is only at Sheet Music Plus so you can find the text hidden there. There is also a snippet of the song to listen to at WLP.
Rock backings are BIAB’s bread and butter and it made up a solo guitar line to compliment the melody.
Entrance: Emmanuel (Angrisano)
Wreath: All Is Wonder (Watts) AOV NG 4
Psalm: To You O God, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Gifts: Praise to You, O Christ, Our Saviour(Farrell) AOV 1/28
Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
Thanksgiving: O Come O Come Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174
Recessional: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
