This song by Dan Feiten was used at RS’s parish recently. It is based on Psalm 96:11-13 and is a joyous hymn of praise.
The sheet music is available at OCP and the text is in the sample there. You can hear the original here but it is too sedate.
Mine’s little better but at least you can sing along with spirit.
If the last song was from my past, this is from my wife’s Catholic childhood. The tune fills her with dread with memories of singing it incessantly at her Catholic primary school. When she hears me do a tune like this she somewhat traumatised with flashbacks.
Yola’s parish mixes the most up to date tunes with folk mass songs from the sixties including this odd song by Sister Miriam Therese Winter MMS.
If you don’t think it is odd read the text here. I don’t mean bad by the way, just peculiar.
Hymnary have details of the hymnals in which you can find the sheet music, and Godsongs has the details of purchasing the collection that contains this and many other songs of the era.
My copy is in the old blue book Living Worship Hymnal and to my shame I got the chords watching someone play it on guitar on You Tube.
Thanks for the chords:
This request is a blast from my Presbyterian past for me, as I remember singing this one a lot in sixties. The words are by Fanny J. Crosby and the music by William H. Doane.
The text is very much of the nineteenth century and can be found here and I found the sheet music at Hymnary.
Compared to some of the turgid things I sang as a youngster, this one at least had some verve.
We never sang as a country swing waltz though…
Clear the decks for blasting:
A more restrained version:
As a battle hymn:
An organ at window rattling volume:
Mary’s parish were going to sing this song by Kevin Mayhew.
I hadn’t heard it before so I had a listen and it didn’t thrill me but he did go on to create a huge publishing empire so what do I know.
The text is here. It is available in a collection at Kevin Mayhew of all places where you can also hear a version of the whole song.
My backing is a bit of a fail (it isn’t very peaceful):
This song was used at RS’s parish recently. It is a jaunty song by John Michaels based on Psalm 148.
The text is here (scroll down) and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP.
The original:
An enthusiastic group:
Chris Brunelle:
This is the last of the obscure songs requested by Frenzy Cool in the Philippines that don’t have an author, a publisher or sheet music that I can find.
Once again, if anyone knows the author or copyright details I’m all ears.
The text and two sound samples are at St Gerard’s in Singapore – warning both the instrumental and vocal version will play out of sync at the same time, so you will have to pause at least one of them. They are bouncy versions so it might be meant as a children’s song so I hope someone explained “incarnate” to them.
This is my poorly formatted fake sheet that will stay up until someone lets me know where it is available to purchase.
My backing has a bit of bounce as well:
This is a request for a song with no obvious sources for sheet music. I can’t find the author, publisher or anything.
The text is at this Ugandan site. It has obvious uses for the Offertory or for Eucharist.
With nothing to go on, I’m happy to put up my fake sheet, but if anyone knows where the copyright resides I’m happy to take it down. Additionally, if the music isn’t right please let me know.
My backing and guess at the music are based on this YouTube clip:
Here’s another:
Frenzy Cool in the Philippines recently requested a list of songs, many of which were obscure songs that seem to be principally sung in English speaking churches in Asia and Africa – they have posed an interesting challenge to my my meagre skills at nutting out tunes with no sheet music as there is nowhere that they can be purchased nor found on the net. I’ll get to the ones I have yet to post soon.
This song is an exception as they link it to Hillsong, who do sing it. It is by Kelly Carpenter and I gather it was made famous by Michael W. Smith. It’s actually very pleasant but has no liturgical use.
It is a classic P&W slow song to be sung with a lot of emotion.
The text is here but gets repeated a lot. The sheet music can be purchased all over the net, including at musicnotes.
Kelly Carpenter:
Michael W. Smith:
Hillsong:
Karoake!
A bunch of impressive instrumentals:
Entrance: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Psalm 33 (O’Brien)
Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114
Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Thanksgiving: The Servant Song (Gillard) AOV 2/169
Recessional: Though the Mountains May Fall (Schutte) AOV 1/182
Emma’s parish are doing this Marty Haugen song today and after being uplifted by his wise presence at the APMN conference last weekend I’d decided to have a listen.
She carefully noted it is from the “Up From the Waters” collection (so purchase the collection if you want to use the song), and I wondered why. It turns out Haugen has another song from a mass setting with the same title and even GIA get them mixed up. All the downloadable sheet music you can buy is the other one. The text is here (scroll down).
The sound sample here is the one I was after, but the sheet music sample on that page is the wrong one.
I have a choir copy of Gather Comprehensive so I’m afraid I just made up some simple chords and doubtless I will lose all of Haugen’s harmonic subtlety.
