This is a request for Marty Haugen’s take on Psalm 128.
The text is here (scroll down) and the sheet music can be purchased at GIA. Hymnary have inofrmation the hymnals that contain this song. I note that it is described as a wedding psalm.
I see the diminished chords and see the need for a gentle jazz style backing.
More Advent goodness, this time from Marty Haugen. Emma and Chris’s parish are both using using this song in which Haugen uses Psalm 95 and the “O” antiphons.
The text is here. If you don’t have this song in Gather Australia or in one of the hymnals listed at Hymnary, you can purchase the sheet music at GIA.
There have been an avalanche of songs for Advent that I’ve never come across before from our correspondents, so I have plenty of new songs to sample.
This song is by Dan Schutte and was used as a recessional at one of Chris’s parishes. I suppose it’s the flip side to his “Though the Mountains May Fall”.
The sheet music is available at OCP and there is a sample of the song to listen to there. The text is here (scroll down).
This song’s verse has a tempo significantly faster than the refrain. I think this is asking for trouble as the tendency is not to return to the original tempo and a general acceleration occurs during the song.
In my backing I have used two very different styles to over-accentuate this, so for learning purposes:
In a more appropriately folky vein:
More traditional hymn goodness from RS’s parish.
This song has a text from the 1600s by Martin Janus set to WERDE MUNTER by Johann Schop from the 1700s. Once again Hymnary has the sheet music and backgrounds of the composers. I never realised that the Bach “Jesu Joy” was this song with the famous tune interspersed between lines.
Is it meant to be this slow? This version is the straight song with no additions.
With all the Bach bits:
Amy Grant with Bach interludes:
Orchestra with Bach bits:
I’ve been away all weekend and did a couple of posts on a borrowed computer but I’m still playing catch up looking at the song lists sent in by correspondents. This is a setting of a Psalm (72) suitable for Christ the King and used there by Ryan’s parish.
The text is another by the prolific hymn writer from the eighteenth century, Isaac Watts, set to DUKE STREET by John Hatton.
Hymnary is once again indespensible for these classic hymns with the sheet music and background on the composer and lyricist.
Choir + Brass + Tympani!
Celtic Praise Band style with an added chorus ? provenance:
Organ & Assembly:
I’m catching up with a slew of traditional hymns for “Christ the King” noted by our parish correspondents. This text is by Martin B. Hellrigen set to ICH GLAUB AN GOTT is more recent than some of these. Hymnary has details here. The sheet music is here.
This is another song for “Christ the King” this time from RS’s parish. The text is by Charles Wesley and the tune is DARWELL by John Darwell. There are lots of traditional hymns with this theme from an era where monarchs were a given I suppose. It’s harder to write in this vein now I suspect.
Hymnary has the text and sheet music, with their usual wonderful links to information about the tune and its authors.
Entrance: A Voice in the Wilderness (Robinson) AOV 1/60
Advent Wreath: Christ Circle Round Us (Schutte)
Psalm: To You O Lord, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Gifts: Come to Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164
Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155
Thanksgiving: Advent Song (Browne – Wood) GA 281
Recessional: Though the Mountains Shall Fall (Schutte) AOV 1/182
I’m catching up with songs posted for “Christ the King” that I haven’t seen before. This one was used at Ryan’s and RS’s parish. As with many of these older hymns, the details and sheet music are all at Hymnary. The text is by Matthew Bridges but some versions at Hymnary replace one of his stanzas with one by Godfrey Thring. Apparently they each wrote six stanzas with Thring “correcting” the popishness of Bridges’s text. The background is here.
The tune is one of those hymn tunes that you remember from somewhere, DIADEMATA, by George J. Elvey, and indeed it has many texts set to its stirring music.
This is another of the selections from Emma’s parish and a grand opus by Christopher Walker it is. It has three sets of lyrics, each of three verses, one for general use, one for Easter, and one for Christ the King, Corpus Christi or Ascension.
I have it Gather Australia 351.
The sheet music is available to purchase at OCP although they don’t make it easy to find it. They also have a snippet of the song to get the idea, but I can’t find the text on the web.
Here we have BIAB in fake orchestra mode being less than convincing and the chords are approximate:
