I have no idea what to make of this solo vehicle by Curtis Stephan. Is it just a rocked up version of Al Jarreau’s “Mornin”?
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. You can listen to the original here.
My backing mixes the melody down a bit this time.
Part of 52 songs in 52 weeks (I think she got to week nine.):
This is a more sensible song – this time by Sarah Hart and Kevin B. Hipp. The refrain would even be singable in a Coldplay sort of way by an assembly if you could find a liturgical use for it.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
Sarah Hart:
This is a very hard rock song by Delirious? and written by Martin Smith and Stuart Garrard.
Definition of “glorious” (from Dictionary.com)
adjective
1.
delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable:
to have a glorious time at the circus.
2.
conferring glory :
a glorious victory.
3.
full of glory; entitled to great renown:
England is glorious in her poetry.
4.
brilliantly beautiful or magnificent; splendid:
a glorious summer day.
5.
Archaic. blissfully drunk.
The question then is my glorious what?
This text is not really meant to make any sense except as incarnated in a throbbing crowd at a concert. The sheet music can be purchased for download from several sites on the net including musicnotes.
In response to this my backing is a ridiculous heavy metal version:
The authors talk about the song:
The original:
Delirious? live:
A more laid back cover:
The Spill back in heavy mode:
More covers:
More Matt Maher. He is in more reflective mode this time but he does say “thank you” a lot, which is nice. It has a nice two handed bridge.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
Matt Maher:
Covers:
More P&W goodness from Matt Maher. As a rock song you forgive cliched lyrics and close enough rhymes I suppose. It has song fun pop tropes (deeper and deeper etc) but the ending could be a let down.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
BIAB got to have a drum solo.
Matt Maher:
The crowd participating:
A cover:
Entrance: Emmanuel (Angrisano) SAS 2/290
Candle: All is Wonder (Watts) AOV NG 4
Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Gifts: Gentle Woman (Landry)
Communion: You Are Mine (Haas) AOV 2/2
Sing Out Earth and Skies (Haugen) AOV 2/32
Thanksgiving: Into the Darkness (Dawn) from “Songs of Fellowship” Book Five (No 70)
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
Like most of the P&W songs in Spirit & Song this one is too individualist to be considered for liturgy, but that it isn’t what it is written for. It is a rock song suitable for jumping up and down a lot to. Matt Maher has written a “love song to God” stomper. It has the usual ropey, somewhat lazy, unfocussed text and the mandatory pre-chorus, bridge, loud and soft passages that let you know it is praise and worship.
The text is at spiritandsong where the guitar accompaniment can be purchased for download.
My backing is simple rock:
Matt Maher:
This is lovely song by Sarah Hart and Sam Mizell. I trying to think which James Taylor song has been purloined here, but perhaps it’s just an amalgam. It’s a nice song but it would be better if Mr Taylor sang it.
The third verse is instrumental but you could just repeat the first verse if that is not wanted. You can listen to the original here.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
My backing goes a little more latin.
A P&W meditation by Bart Millard of the band “Mercy Me”. I gather this song is insanely popular and has been covered by everyone.
Text here. The sheet music is available from various sellers on the net including musicnotes.
My backing is a bit over pretty.
This is the original with a country flavoured vocal:
Mercy Me + LSO:
Wynonna:
Susan Boyle:
Amy Grant:
etc etc
Hailey Mason sent me a link to this Infographic she helped develop:
Source: ChristianUniversitiesOnline.org/
Being a grumpy old man who first went to university in the 1970s, I am astonished at the presentations skills that BYTs* have. What an amazing document – but I have to quibble about the dates for foundation of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, I wouldn’t date it from the schism myself. It also amazes me that every citation is for a website rather than a primary document, but as I say, I’m a grumpy old man. I was surprised to find a reference to a salpinx, which is another name for a fallopian tube in my field of medicine, but I suppose it does look like a trumpet.
*BYT= bright young thing
as in “The grumpy old man felt threatened by the BYT’s talent and energy.”
Why not visit their site and see what they are up to.
