Church Music

This Ed Bolduc song is a solo vehicle (well it does have a harmony part) as it just has too many notes for an assembly. It would be a fine performance piece.

The sheet music can be purchased at WLP where the text is in their sample.

This song from Voices As One Vol 2 by David Yackley is exactly what it says it is. For using the word “awesome” it is probably best in a P&W setting and not a liturgy, but just maybe it would suit as a recessional if your assembly can handle a lot of syncopation.  Probably it would be best as a solo.

A lead sheet can be purchased at WLP where the text is in their sample.

My backing couldn’t get the feel of his version, so for singing along and learning purposes:

Entrance: Song of the Body of Christ  (Haas) AOV 1/27

Psalm 115 (McKenna)

I will take the cup of salvation,

and call on the name of the Lord.

Gifts: Our Blessing Cup (Mason)

Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33

Thanksgiving: Bread of Heaven (Manibusan-Hart)

Recessional: Celebrate(Brown) AOV 1/44

This is a song for Palm Sunday by John Angotti that has an easy refrain for the assembly and a set of challenging verses for a soloist.  The assembly can keep singing their part under each verse as well.

The sheet music is available for purchase at WLP where the text is in their sample.

In my funk style backing, I have just put one melody line to reduce confusion, but you can sing the refrain under the verses. The sheet music says 80 bpm but 100 works better.

This song by Martin Smith could work as an entrance I suppose. It was recorded by his band, “Delirious?”. It seems a popular P&W 6/8 shanty.

Does it have to start “Men of faith”?

The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at various sites on the net including Praise Charts.

My backing is a bit Irish:

This is a fine solo pop song by Michael Gleason that I doubt has any liturgical use.

I can’t find the text anywhere and I can only find the sheet music for those with a WLP licence (here).

I made a backing anyway in case you have the Voices As One Collection and want help learning it.

Frenzy Cool asked for a version of the Trinity Song by Frank Andersen with no melody line.

2 bar intro then sing:

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