Now I’ve heard a few songs with this title, setting Psalm 27, but not this one by Christopher Walker that was in a liturgy at RS’s parish. It is vaguely Irish in style and very pleasant indeed.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
This is a lovely instrumental version and this is an assembly’s version.
The original I suspect:
Chris Brunelle:
Mary Ellen Kopp:
This song by Michael Joncas is another request. It is based on Psalm 120.
I don’t have it any collection I’m afraid but the sheet music can bought as a single sheet at sheetmusicplus and in a collection at GIA. The text is here (scroll down to the comments section). There is a MP3 snippet on the GIA site if you want to know what it is meant to sound like.
In the absence of any sheet music I have used the snippet to make an approximate backing that should be used with caution as I was guessing how the other verses would go.
This song is a request and was written by David Haas and Jeanne Cotter.
It is a challenging gospel style song with subtle differences in each verse that suggest a solo vehicle. There’s a bit of the tune of “When I Need You” in the verse.
I found the text at Hymnary and the sheet music can be purchased at sheetmusicplus.
My version is a country gospel style that might make it less intimidating:
Now this is intimidating:
This choir’s version starts at ~ 4:12.
The broadening of my musical education from my correspondents continues with this song by Michael Joncas based on Psalm 130 that is used at RS’s parish.
The verses are really for a cantor with one tune for verses one and three and a more extravagant one for two and four. I have it in Breaking Bread 676. You could make a case, if this was being used away from the responsorial psalm, of just singing verses one and three with the more applicable text and less fraught melody.
The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP.
My backing is another attempt at getting the right 6/8 feel in BIAB. Still not there…
I like the singing in this version but the piano arrangement, while inventive, is a little obtrusive.
A good cantor:
An assembly as well:
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)
Psalm 126 (O’Brien)
The Lord has done great things for us, we are filled with joy.
Gifts: Open My Eyes (Manibusan) AOV 1/166
Communion: Our Blessing Cup (Mason)
I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Thanksgiving: We Walk By Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63
Recessional: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114
This song by Michael Joncas turned in a liturgy at RS’s parish. It has a refrain that is in Latin. I hadn’t heard it before and it really is a delightful hymn for Eucharist. I have it in Breaking Bread 350.
The sheet music is at OCP and the text is here (scroll down to page 12).
Ryan’s parish use this Gary Ault composition, a song of consolation and support.
The text is here (somewhat scattered) and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP.
Instrumental:
This song by Dan Feiten was used at RS’s parish recently. It is based on Psalm 96:11-13 and is a joyous hymn of praise.
The sheet music is available at OCP and the text is in the sample there. You can hear the original here but it is too sedate.
Mine’s little better but at least you can sing along with spirit.
If the last song was from my past, this is from my wife’s Catholic childhood. The tune fills her with dread with memories of singing it incessantly at her Catholic primary school. When she hears me do a tune like this she somewhat traumatised with flashbacks.
Yola’s parish mixes the most up to date tunes with folk mass songs from the sixties including this odd song by Sister Miriam Therese Winter MMS.
If you don’t think it is odd read the text here. I don’t mean bad by the way, just peculiar.
Hymnary have details of the hymnals in which you can find the sheet music, and Godsongs has the details of purchasing the collection that contains this and many other songs of the era.
My copy is in the old blue book Living Worship Hymnal and to my shame I got the chords watching someone play it on guitar on You Tube.
Thanks for the chords:
This request is a blast from my Presbyterian past for me, as I remember singing this one a lot in sixties. The words are by Fanny J. Crosby and the music by William H. Doane.
The text is very much of the nineteenth century and can be found here and I found the sheet music at Hymnary.
Compared to some of the turgid things I sang as a youngster, this one at least had some verve.
We never sang as a country swing waltz though…
Clear the decks for blasting:
A more restrained version:
As a battle hymn:
An organ at window rattling volume:
