Church Music

I got an e-mail from Brentwood Benson with a link to a free lead sheet of this song. Like “Night of Silence- Silent Night” it is a traditional Christmas song linked with new material.  Here the traditional song has a chorus written by a committee of Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash and Jonas Myrin. It from Chris Tomlin’s album “Adore”.

The original hymn, uncredited in this version, which is scandalous, is by Edmund H. Sears. Hymnary have his details and sheet music for the original hymn and the full text as this version has only the first two verses.

The text is here along with the recording. The full sheet music is available from Brentwood Benson.

My backing has a jazz influence:

At the recent APMN conference I attended a session about the Catholic Worship Book II that is coming out soon.  Sr Jenny O’Brien went through some of the highlights and there were some very good songs. I worry they have missed the boat by a decade or so and the overall style of music is not going to work in the suburbs.

This song by John Bell and Graham Maule will be in the collection and I gather was written as a response to the Dunblane massacre.

If you need a song for a child’s funeral and someone can sing this all the way through without crying uncontrollably then it may be useful.

The marvellous text is here. The sheet music is available at GIA or in a collection at Willow Publications.

This is a request for a song written by David Haas that he called a love song to God.

The text is here. The sheet music is available from GIA.

David Haas:

Sarah Haag:

This one had slipped through my notice, as it has been used a couple of times at RS’s parish. I made a backing it for it some time ago, forgot – and then made another. It has a a similar theme to “St Theresa’s Prayer”.

It was written by Sebastian Temple and the text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP.

The prolific Chris Brunell:

Piano by Heidi does an instrumental version:

The jazz stylings of the Ave Maria Choir of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Singapore):

The CHL Group in collaboration with the “Love of God” group, Holy Family Parish, Choi Hung,HKSAR:

This is a request in plenty of time for Christmas. This song by Daniel Kantor is very lovely as a stand alone song, but has been arranged with the addition of “Silent Night”. Basically just do the first verse of “Silent Night” after the three verses of “Night of Silence”. If you are up for it they can also be sung simultaneously.

The lyrics make it a poor choice in the southern hemisphere while we are fainting in an overcrowded poorly ventilated church covered in sweat… then again while symbolically inappropriate here, perhaps a few frozen thoughts might help.

The text is here and you can purchase the sheet music at OCP.

My backing starts sedately enough but I was playing with some new horn sounds, which build after a couple of verses:

It is obviously a crowd pleaser as a choir piece, so in various arrangements:

Entrance: Glory in the Cross (Schutte)

Psalm 23 (McKenna)

Lord, this is the people that long to see your face.

Gifts: Blessed Be the Lord (McKenna) AOV NG 13

Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1

Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Thanksgiving: The Beatitudes (Balhoff/Ducote)

– this is not familiar to this assembly so it will be started on CD.

Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59

I’ve blogged a modern version of this song here but this is the original. The text, that I had thought was author unknown, is listed here as by Edward Caswell.

Hymnary has the text, sheet music and Caswell’s biography here or you could purchase the sheet music at OCP.

I have more fake organ from BIAB.

From OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book 2005:

22 All That is Hidden
23 All the Earth
24 All the Ends of the Earth
25 Alle, Alle, Alleluia

“Alleluia Alleluia” is an Easter text by Christopher Wordsworth, the nephew of the other Wordsworth, set to Beethoven’s “Hymn to Joy”. I unnecessarily and strangely blogged the tune here.

Hymnary has the text (OCP omit two verses) and alternative settings. The sheet music can be purchased from OCP.

From OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book

18 All I Ask of You

19 All My Days

20 All People That On Earth Do Dwell

“All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving” is based on the Trisagion from the Fifth century and was written by Melvin Farrell S.S.

The tune is GOTT VATER SEI GEPRIESEN which I have blogged here. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where you can also find the text.

Getting back to OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book:

GAB 16 All Hail, Adored  Trinity

No 17 is “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” with a text by Edward Perronet, with alterations by John Rippon, set to CORONATION by Oliver Holden.

The sheet music and the text is at Hymnary, but the version in this collection only shares the first verse with that text. The second and third verse here don’t seem to match any of the many versions and verses on the internet but you can find them in this sample at OCP. You can also purchase the sheet music there.

Some grand versions: