This is some 60s folk mass goodness from Joe Wise and yet another update of Psalm 22 (23).
The original has an extra bar in verse 3 only but I note Marty Haugen’s arrangement for GIA smoothed things out with extra words to make all the verses the same length.
Hymnary has that version in a sample with words and music.
My first backing was too slow so I made another. They both have the Haugen adjustment.
The original:
This is a reimagining of Psalm 22 (23) by Christopher Idle. CWB used CRIMOND to set it, which is doubling down I suppose.
Jubilate have the text, Hope the sheet music and Praise the backstory. Job done.
Now to find a very old backing of mine:
Is this a Catholic song if written by an Anglican minister?
… sung in a reformed church?
… Calvinist?
Psalms are for everyone!
The is a bit of an orphan setting of Psalm 26 (27) by Marty Haugen. You would expect Haugen’s work to be available but he wrote a more useable setting later on and that appears to have superceded this one.
The text is a paraphrase of the Psalm and the editors of CWB have changed it as well, so it would be only be useful as a hymn rather than as a psalm, which is probably why it has disappeared.
That said, I made a backing with made up chords for anyone who has CWB and wants to know how it goes. I haven’t found it available anywhere else.
This lyric for Holy Week, by the poet Margaret Cropper, is set in CWB to MORNING SONG.
It is admirably succinct.
1 The glory of our King was seen
when he came riding by,
and all the children waved and sang
‘Hosanna, King most high!’2 The glory of our King was seen
when, with his arms stretched wide
to show his love to everyone,
Jesus was crucified.3 The glory of our King was seen
on the first Easter day,
when Christ rose up, set free from death,
to love, to guide, to stay.
This is a translation of St Ambrose’s Aeterna Christi munera translated by John Mason Neale and here set to the tradional tune AGINCOURT. I blogged this as part of a group of songs in CWB II, but I’ll give it a post of its own.
Is the answer to my quest for a better hymn for ‘Christ the King”? – I fear not, without lutes and recorders for the medieval touch.
This well put commentary is from one of the clips below:
The Eternal Gifts of Christ the King is a 1851 John Mason Neale (1818-1866) translation of the Ambrosian hymn, Aeterna Christi Munera by St. Ambrose of Milan (340-397). Originally it was sung on Feast Days of Martyrs. In the Roman Breviary it was revised for use during Matins on Feast Days of the Apostles and Evangelists. The Eternal Gifts of Christ the King is set to the 15th century melody, Deo Gratias (Agincourt Carol) attributed to the English composer, John Dunstable (c.1390-1453). In the Liturgy of the Hours, it is used in the Commons of the Apostles.
The text from CWB removes archiac language. I’ve seen some variations in words of the second verse.
1 Th’eternal gifts of Christ the King,
th’apostles’ glory, let us sing;
and all, with hearts of gladness, raise
due hymns of thankful love and praise.2 Their faith in Christ, the Lord, prevailed,
their hope, a light that never failed;
their love ablaze o’er pathways trod
to lead them to the’e-ternal God.3 In them the Father’s glory shone,
in them the will of God the Son,
in them exults the Holy Ghost,
through them rejoice the heav’nly host.4 To you, Redeemer, now we cry,
that you would join to them on high
your servants, who this grace implore,
for ever and for evermore.
This is another of the songs CWB sourced from the Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy from ICEL, which can still be purchased at GIA.
The text for Advent and Christmas is by Omar Westendorf based on Isaiah 40:1-11, and is set to Robert Edward Kreutz‘s FIDDLERS GREEN. Since Westendorf founded WLP, I suppose he is owned by GIA now.
I couldn’t find the text anywhere but it does show up in Worship 3rd ed. if you have that, or you could listen to the clip below.
Father Brian Foley based this hymn on the suffering servant passages in Isaiah 53, so it has a special use for Good Friday.
CWB sourced this hymn for the New Catholic Hymnal and followed them by setting the text to FELINFOEL by Michael Dawney.
Hymnary notes the other hymnals that have this song and its other settings, but hasn’t heard of the New Catholic Hymnal because it was not American. The text is here.
My backing appears to be based on chords that I guessed at and the slightly odd thought that this song needed accordian.
This is a terrific arrangement – but not for an assembly:
I have somehow never come across this joyous Marty Haugen Christmas song from back in 1983, but it did appear in Australia’s Catholic Worship Book in 1985.
It’s still available at GIA with arrangements for brass quintet and 2 octave handbells, so knock yourself out. Looking at the performance notes in the preview there, it is suggested that organ, piano or guitar will also work.
The text is at Cantus Mundi. The plethora of You Tube clips suggest it is beloved of American Lutherans.
You can hear the handbells and brass in his original. There is also the slightly weird choral sound that always seems odd to my ears on his recordings. It almost sounds like prehistoric AI.
Some lovely Lutheran handbells and a technically less good choir that sounds more human.
Organ blasting…
This is glorious with strings etc:
Organ plus soloist:
Piano, guitar, vocal:
Jazz organ:
Backing with tuned percussion:
The Allen digital computer organ and assembly…
The editors of CWB picked another James Montgomery (1771-1854) text and this time rather than attaching “alt” they say “adapted”, so I suspect greater changes. It could be for Pentecost but is especially for Ordination.
Here , it is set to SONG 34 by Orlando Gibbons.
I recycled an old backing:
Using the compare text feature in Hymnary, I entered the oldest and the youngest and got this result.
CWB is almost what TIS landed on with some small differences.
1 Pour out your Spirit from on high;
Lord, your assembled servants bless:
graces and gifts to each supply,
and clothe your priests with holiness.2 Within your temple when we stand
to celebrate your liturgy,
Saviour, like stars in your right hand
may pastors of the churches be.3 Wisdom and zeal and faith impart,
firmness with meekness from above,
to bear your people on their heart
and love their souls with your strong love;4 To watch and pray and never fear,
by day and night strict guard to keep;
to pardon sinners, saints to cheer,
to nourish lambs, and feed your sheep;5 Then, when their work is finished here,
in humble hope their tasks resign,
when the chief Shepherd shall appear,
may they in glory ever shine.
I can find lots of clips of this text but none to this setting.
In between the venerable hymn tunes with aged texts in CWB, there is the occasional folk mass era song that I somehow have managed not to find from other sources.
This is a Joe Wise folk song from the sixties that I’ve never heard of. It was originally from an album called Hand in Hand.
That collection is still available from GIA if you decide you need it after hearing the clip below.
I made up simple chords for my backing:
This clip on You Tube preserves the authentic crackle and hum of old records.
