There are some songs from Easter that were done at RS’s parish that I’d like to look at.
This one is by Father Manoling Francisco SJ. It has a text in English, Filipino and Spanish. The tune is most pleasant but with enough variations in the verses to use a cantor as suggested.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.
These are all great versions:
At Ryan’s parish they use Tony Alonso’s text but set it to Hymn to Joy.
Since everyone knows that tune I decided to look at Alonso’s own joyful tune for his words instead.
The text is at Hymnary and the sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
My backing lets BIAB improvise on trumpet.
This is the original:
We switched back to the Mass of Glory and Praise by Paul Mason at Easter.
Entrance: Alleluia! Love Is Alive (Angrisano, Manibusan, Hart)
Psalm 15 (McKenna)
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia No. 1 (Fishel) AOV 1/15
Gifts: Open My Eyes (Manibusan) AOV 1/166
Communion: Christ Be Beside Me (Quinn) tune BUNESSAN
Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155
Thanksgiving: Emmaus (Alonso) AOV NG 41
Hearts of Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62
More Easter goodness from Ryan’s parish with Bob Hurd’s gentle setting of Psalm 51. I think the verse would survive being sung by an assembly if you wanted to use it outside the Psalm slot.
You can buy the sheet music at OCP where the text is in their sample.
Ryan’s parish also did this one, which while new to me is centuries old.
The lyrics are here by Henry William Baker and based on a text from Bernard of Clairvaux and Paul Gerhardt.
The tune is the Passion Chorale from Bach’s St Matthew Passion, which he got from Hans Leo Hassler. As soon as I made a backing of this I thought it was Paul Simon’s “American Tune.” It is suggested that Simon got it from a folk song called “Because All Men Are Brothers.” A lot of borrowing is going on so I hope Hans is fine with that.
Hymnary have the sheet music although I got it from TIS 339 where it sets a different translation of Gerhardt and Bernard’s work by James Waddell Alexander called “O Sacred Head Sore Wounded”.
In keeping with this blog’s habit of never quite finishing things (except the As One Voice series – although I never did get to As One Voice for Kids!) with pretty much only a handful Marian hymns to go, I will divert from Gather Australia and follow up some of the songs in the Easter liturgies posted here that I don’t know.
There were several at Ryan’s parish that were new to me, but some of the Psalm settings are a bit hard to track down and I don’t have the books that they come from.
But this one they used is quite the production from Tony Alonso. The refrain has an echoing descant and the verse is call and response between the cantor and the assembly – not the worst idea if this song is mainly used at Easter, as the assembly part is just “Glory in the Cross”.
The sheet music can be purchased for download very cheaply at WLP where the text is in their sample. It’s really lovely but I find it hard to get past Dan Schutte’s similarly themed “Glory in the Cross”.
I have the call and response in the backing but I’ll leave the descant for you to figure out.
The somewhat lifeless original:
Less polished but more alive:
This is yet another lovely piece from John Bell and Wild Goose that was included in Gather Australia.
Wild Goose has this information about the song including the note that the first line is “Jesus Christ, Lord of all, stay with us now.”
That is all the refrain for the assembly consists of, and the cantor has ten one line exhortations that are sung over the “now”.
The sheet music is also in the collection Love From Below available at Wild Goose.
My backing is just the assembly part and I had to make up the chords.
Entrance: Alleluia! Love Is Alive (Angrisano, Manibusan, Hart)
Pslam 117 (McKenna)
Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia No.1 (Fishel) AOV 1/15
Gifts: I Have Seen the Lord (Hurd) AOV 1/98
Communion: O Sacred Flame (Marshall)
Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33
Thanksgiving: Without Seeing You (Haas) AOV 2/158
Recessional: Jesus is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82
A setting of Psalm 141:2 by I-to Loh. I couldn’t find any trace of this except in GA.
Let my prayer rise before you as incense,
the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
The backings a bit of a fail – I had no idea of the chords and the time is irregular so it is what it is.
Some hymns sound more dated than others. This one, with it’s Sitz im Leben fully in the British Empire of the Victorian age, seems more dated than most.
This one has a text by John Ellerton and is set to ST CLEMENT by Clement C. Scholefield.
Hymnary has chapter and verse on lyrics, sheet music and hymnals in which it appears (216!).
My BIAB backing is on the harp.
