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.
Entrance: Sing Out Earth and Skies (Haugen) AOV 2/32
Psalm 129 (McKenna)
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Gifts: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Thanksgiving: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76
Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
This is an interesting song by David Yackley. The structure is odd in that the refrain bookends the song with three verses sandwiched between. The first verse is a soloist who is joined by a harmony vocal the second time through the verses and then replaced by a rap for the third verse. I can’t think where that fits in a liturgy but it would work in other settings I’m sure.
The lead sheet can be purchased at WLP and the text is their sample.
My backing follows the suggested “modern electronic music” instruction on the sheet music. I left the rap section vacant to talk over if you wish.
