Church Music

I not quite sure what you could use this for. It is David Yackley rapping John the Baptist.

The sheet music can be purchased at WLP where the text, including the rap, can be found in their sample pages.

I made a backing that has a gap for the rap.

The is Ed Bolduc’s setting of Psalm 145. It is a gospel waltz with a singable refrain for the assembly and some work to do for the cantor with the verses sharing a chord progression but with variations in the melody.

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

This a P&W song from Matt Redman for use outside of a mass.

The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased in many places on the net including praisecharts.

This is a belter from John Michael Talbot’s youth. It’s really too fiddly for an assembly but is a passionate solo vehicle.

The text is here. I can’t find the sheet music to purchase anywhere, other than Voices As One Vol 2, obviously, but it might be worth contacting the people at his website.

My backing is is a jig.

Many years later:

This is the song for the Brisbane Catholic Education Year of Youth written by Steph Unger.

The text is here.

I gather music teachers and APREs have been given the song to use this year and we may be singing it at church. It’s a distinctive and attractive song and the key change from D to F is an exciting leap.

For those who wish to sing along I have made a rough backing.

It’s meant to have didgeridoo all through but BIAB doesn’t do didg.

31/1/2018

• The BCE now have the sheet music available at their website for the Year of Youth.

Entrance: Galilee Song (Andersen) AOV 1/15

Psalm 24 (McKenna)

Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Teach me your ways.

Gifts: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30

Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149

Recessional: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158

Continuing my series on Voice As One Vol 2, I can skip “O Taste and See” and “On Holy Ground” because I have covered them already elsewhere.

I have already blogged this song as well here, but this version has the bridge after the second verse so I though I would revisit it.

The text is here with the bridge, here after the third verse. At OCP the Spanish sheet music has the bridge but the English doesn’t – odd.

For what it’s worth I don’t think the bridge adds anything and makes it less amenable to an assembly – it is for performance.

My backing tries for the 6/8 feel and includes the bridge.

This song by Aaron Thompson is suggested for Good Friday but I’m sure there are many other liturgical occasions for consolation. The text is powerful and the repetitions effective.

The sheet music is at WLP where the text is in their sample pages.

My backing has some improvised BIAB guitar doodling but can still be sung along to.

Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90

Psalm 39 (McKenna)

Here am I, Lord

Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13

Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195

Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149

Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60

This song by Francis Patrick O’Brien was used at Ryan’s parish for Christmas and would be a lovely solo to link Christmas to Easter.

The text and details about the author are at Hymnary. The sheet music can be purchased at GIA.