Church Music

This is a P&W song, which is not really designed for liturgical use. It is by Darrell Patton Evans.

The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at various places on the internet including sheetmusicplus.

You can sing along with my backing:

Entrance: We Three Kings

Psalm 71 (McKenna)

Lord, ev’ry nation on earth will adore you, will adore you.

Gifts: The First Noel

Communion: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3

Thanksgiving: O Come All Ye Faithful

Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76

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.