This is a David Haas song for Eucharist in the style of a Taize chant.
The verses are for a cantor and they overlap the ostinato refrain in such a way that the refrain looks like it has to be done in between each verse so the assembly just keeps going with the refrain under the verses and between the verses.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is hidden in their preview.
This gives a better idea of the song.
I’ve had two consecutive weekends in Tasmania where I got to play at mass and this week I’ll be playing at my home parish.
For Advent we are switching to Taylor’s Mass of St Francis, and using the “Celtic Alleluia” for the Gospel Acclamation. We will sing Trish Watt’s “All is Wonder” for the wreath lighting and “To You O God, I Lift Up My Soul” as a seasonal psalm. Hopefully it will underline the change of liturgical season.
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: Come to Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164
Thanksgiving: Into the Darkness (Dawn) from “Songs of Fellowship” Book Five (No 70)
Recessional: Sing Out Earth and Skies (Haugen) AOV 2/32
I’m getting towards the end of my catch up of David Haas’s songs from the Perth APMN conference.
This is his setting of Psalm 123 so it can be used for when that psalm is set and specifically for anointing and reconciliation as well as more general use. Haas notes it to be a”psalm of surrender and complete dependency on God”.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is in their preview.
Haas demonstrates the song here.
This adaptation by David Haas is a blast and just in time for Christmas.
The sheet music of his version is available to purchase at GIA, where the text is hidden in their preview.
“Gaudete” is a renaissance song collected in Piae Cantiones. Other versions (eg here) are around for free as it is public domain. I gather the original had no tune for the verses, but most use the same tune as Haas.
My version is not serious:
Entrance: Hail Redeemer King Divine (Brennan – Elvey)
Psalm 22 (McKenna)
The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Gifts: The Lord is My Shepherd (Boniwell) AOV 1/26
Communion: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33
Thanksgiving: All You Works of God (Haugen) AOV 1/19
Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76
This is David Haas’s setting of Mary Louise Bringle‘s enchanting text.
I only discovered who wrote the words when I found a sample page on the GIA site that was very well hidden. I had made up some simplified chords for the tune before I saw the real music and while I guessed a fair few of them my arrangements is pretty basic compared to Haas’s sophistication.
You can purchase this in a collection called God Never Tires at GIA. You can listen to the whole song there as well. To see the text scroll down to Hymn Tunes of David Haas – Volume Two and open the preview to page 6.
This is another very recent David Haas song, this time based on readings from 1 Peter.
The text lends itself to a recessional. The verses are written for a cantor but they are not beyond an assembly despite the variations from verse to verse.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the lyrics are in their preview.
My backing is a little dramatic.
Peter Grant has sent a wonderful new song. He said this about it:
I promised to send some recent compositions. Here is my latest, based on texts from John 6:68; Ps 24 (25) and Ps 119 called “I Will Follow You”.
I think it would be appropriate for commitment, reconciliation and school liturgies as well as general use.
Willow has a demo excerpt mp3 plus the music, but it’s not online pending their website update that Mon has told me will be ready soon. Anyway, I’m sure Shenay (orders@asonevoice.com.au) will be happy to supply the music if anyone requests it by email.
He said I could put up the text and I made a basic backing to sing along with to learn it. The tune is most singable.
I Will Follow You
Music: Peter Grant, Chris Currie
Lyrics: Peter Grant. Inspired by John 6:68; Ps 24 (25): vv. 4, 5, 10; Ps 119: (120) v. 105Refrain:
I will follow you, wherever you lead me;
for you are the light guiding my path.
If my feet should stray or stumble along the way,
take my hand, O Lord, and lead me once more to you.Verse 1.
Make me know your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth, in you I trust.Verse 2.
All your paths are steadfast love and faithfulness.
Let my eyes be ever turned to you.Verse 3.
Lord, to whom else could we go,
for you alone have the words of everlasting life.Copyright © 2017 Peter Grant. All rights reserved.
Published by Willow Publishing Pty Ltd, PO Box 1063 Dee Why NSW 2093 Australia. All rights reserved.
He also sent his own backing track, that has a lovely woodwind part starting in the second verse:
He also sent an Sibelius demo as well:
*30/11/2017
I’ve noticed you can now go to As One Voice directly to buy this song here.
Entrance: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
Psalm 127 (McKenna)
Happy are those who fear the Lord.
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Thanksgiving: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56
Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60
One of the joys of the recent APMN conference at Perth was hearing David Haas play some of his newer tunes.
I like this one but the chorus goes awfully high for an assembly so it might be more a solo or choral piece.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the text is in their preview.
My backing does not have the key change for the last verse.
Haas’s version is slower that the sheet music indicates and makes my backing sound rather too jaunty.
You can hear him introduce the song and sing it live here.
A choir learning the song:
