Just when Hillsong convinces me I don’t like P&W music, Matt Redman comes along to remind how good it can be. This is a fine uptempo song of praise.
The text is here and the sheet music is available at various shops on the net including musicnotes.
My backing lacks a little heft but will do:
I’m having another crack at this song by Rory Cooney at the request of a correspondent. The details of this song are in my previous post here.
I now have a copy of “Glory and Praise” and the version there has an extra stanza that is a bridge for the cantor, which leads into a key change for the final refrain. The text of the bridge is in the sample at OCP.
This backing should be a lot more accurate than the last one and includes the bridge and key change.
This clip is actually quite well done for a change and illustrates the bridge beautifully.
I found this song with a text by Brian Wren and music by David Haas while tidying. I’m sure we used it for Ash Wednesday in the past but I can’t remember when and why I’ve never blogged it.
Brian Wren’s excellent text is at Hope Publishing. The call and response David Haas setting can be purchased at GIA. Hymnary suggests other possible tunes.
I have several backings for some reason.
I found a couple of David Haas songs tucked away that I have never blogged before. I can’t remember ever singing this one.
The text is from John 11:25-26 and just repeated with key changes.
I am the resurrection,
I am the life.
All who believe in me shall live.
You can buy the sheet music at GIA. Their sample for listening purposes is deadly dull but if it is played brightly and with spirit as suggested it would be very usable at Easter.
More Hillsong from the Source New Songs, this time written by Darlene Zschech. It’s a generic slow burn P&W song with a slight text but it is what it is.
The text is here and the sheet music is available at musicnotes.
I’ll do a few more of these P&W songs and leave them alone for another couple of years I think.
This was in a neglected pile of music and I have no recollection of playing it at all.
It is by James V Marchionda OP and if you need a gospel communion hymn in 9/8 time you’ve found it.
The text and an audio sample are at WLP where you can purchase the sheet music.
My backing is rather too restrained and polite.
Martin E. Leckebusch wrote the text and it is set to Song of Joy by Beethoven.
There is a sample of the lyrics here and you know the tune.
I’ll put up a backing anyway.
This is another of the Michael Herry fms songs that have been put up on the internet by the Marists. The sheet music is here.
There are actually two whole discontinued albums to use available at the Marist’s site.
My backing just shows that I’m no good at getting BIAB to simulate free chant.
Better to listen to this version:
This is a chant like song with a lot of repetition written by Suzette Thorndycraft and originating in the Vineyard group of churches.
Vineyard have the text, lead sheet and sheet music, as well as the song to listen to.
It is actually quite pleasant and could be done even more quietly and restrained than in the version at Vineyard, like my backing:
This another song by Michael Herry fms, this time a chant for Lent.
Again the sheet music has been put up by the Marists here. It reminds me of a downbeat version of “I Will Survive.”
My backing only has the melody line but as you can see there are two harmony lines in the sheet music.
