Church Music

Ryan’s parish used this song from the nineteenth century written by Robert Lowry.

The text and author information is at Hymnary. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP or a version is available here.

A mildly country backing:

I put up a backing to this song some years ago and Leo has been in touch.  I met him at the APMN conference and he has sent some of his music.

The songs are out of print but he has given permission for them to be put up here, with a reminder that if your parishes use them to report that to Word of Life or Licensing.

I made some sheet music for this piece:

You Are Welcome

I also made a backing and blogged the tune here.

There are some other very nice tunes he has sent and I’ll put them up soon.

Entrance: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Psalm 16 O’Brien

Keep me safe, O God. You are my hope.

Gifts: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76)

Communion: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81

Song of the Body of Christ  (Haas) AOV 1/27

Thanksgiving: You Are Mine  (Haas)  AOV 2/2

Recessional: Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62

Ryan’s parish had this song, funnily enough for All Saints – in case anyone still thinks music selection for Mass is a random thing!

It is set to SINE NOMINE by Ralph Vaughan Williams and I’ve already blogged the tune here. The text and sheet music are at Hymnary.

The Choir of York Minster – I was lucky enough to attend Evensong there a couple of years ago – wonderful.

Emma’s parish sang this song recently. It is a text by Timothy Dudley-Smith based on the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55). it is set to WOODLANDS by Walter Greatorex and a stirring hymn it is.

The text is at Oremus and sheet music can be accessed at Hope Publishing.

My backing is an overdose of BIAB strings.

This is another free lead sheet from Brentwood Benson advertising Chris Tomlin’s Album, Adore.

It is another case of familiar out of copyright Christmas songs arranged, linked and saddled with a short piece of new music and then the whole thing is copyrighted.  Merry Christmas and Ka-ching! (I’m such a cynic.)

This time a jazz arrangement of “Away in the Manger” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain” have a simple chorus added by Chris Tomlin and Ed Cash. “Away in a Manger” may have been written by Martin Luther with the third verse by John T. McFarland. This jazz styled version uses the tune MUELLER by James R. Murray. “Go Tell It On the Mountain” is a Christmas adaptation of an African-American Spiritual.

The lead sheet is here and the full sheet music can be purchased here. You can hear Tomlin’s version here.

Chris Tomlin talks about the album:

Both RS and Ryan’s parish used this hymn written by  William J. Irons and set to Beethoven’s “Song of Joy”. It therefore needs no backing for learning purposes from the likes of me. In more modern versions the text helpfully sings with “saints” rather than “sons”.

Hymnary have the text and sheet music. There is a Spanish version of the text as well.

This one was used by Ryan and RS’s parish recently. The text is mysteriously attributed to Augustine of Hippo and adapted by F.B.P (who?) then altered by Joseph Bromehead and set to this lovely American tune LAND OF REST.

The text is in various versions (eg here and here) and Hymnary have the sheet music.

It has frequently suggested as a funeral song on the internet. It bears a passing resemblance to “Amazing Grace”.

I thought it might go a bit faster than that but thought better of it.  I still made a backing though:

Handbells:

Solo Jazz Piano:

Organ:

This is another sung at RS’s parish. It is a translation of a twelfth century Latin text by J. M. Neale and set to the stirring Dutch tune, IN BABILONE.

It is a song in praise of saints.  The text and sheet music are at Hymnary, but my copy is in OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book. You can also buy arrangements of the sheet music at OCP and GIA.

The text is also set to Beethoven’s “Song of Joy”.

More fake organ from BIAB:

This request is for an old song from the 1930s by Daniel A. Lord S.J. which is a march of all things, rallying young Catholics. The Catholic Action movement is way before my time, but I do have an enormous Catholic Action Bible.  It has wonderful portraits of all the disciples and they are a lot of extremely European looking gents except for Judas who is a crude caricature of Jewishness.

I’m not sure what role a song like this could have now as its martial style seems from another world. Godsongs has the text and the sheet music is available here.

I had to guess the chords and BIAB has limited facilities for marches: