Mary’s parish were going to sing this song by Kevin Mayhew.
I hadn’t heard it before so I had a listen and it didn’t thrill me but he did go on to create a huge publishing empire so what do I know.
The text is here. It is available in a collection at Kevin Mayhew of all places where you can also hear a version of the whole song.
My backing is a bit of a fail (it isn’t very peaceful):
This song was used at RS’s parish recently. It is a jaunty song by John Michaels based on Psalm 148.
The text is here (scroll down) and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP.
The original:
An enthusiastic group:
Chris Brunelle:
This is the last of the obscure songs requested by Frenzy Cool in the Philippines that don’t have an author, a publisher or sheet music that I can find.
Once again, if anyone knows the author or copyright details I’m all ears.
The text and two sound samples are at St Gerard’s in Singapore – warning both the instrumental and vocal version will play out of sync at the same time, so you will have to pause at least one of them. They are bouncy versions so it might be meant as a children’s song so I hope someone explained “incarnate” to them.
This is my poorly formatted fake sheet that will stay up until someone lets me know where it is available to purchase.
My backing has a bit of bounce as well:
This is a request for a song with no obvious sources for sheet music. I can’t find the author, publisher or anything.
The text is at this Ugandan site. It has obvious uses for the Offertory or for Eucharist.
With nothing to go on, I’m happy to put up my fake sheet, but if anyone knows where the copyright resides I’m happy to take it down. Additionally, if the music isn’t right please let me know.
My backing and guess at the music are based on this YouTube clip:
Here’s another:
Frenzy Cool in the Philippines recently requested a list of songs, many of which were obscure songs that seem to be principally sung in English speaking churches in Asia and Africa – they have posed an interesting challenge to my my meagre skills at nutting out tunes with no sheet music as there is nowhere that they can be purchased nor found on the net. I’ll get to the ones I have yet to post soon.
This song is an exception as they link it to Hillsong, who do sing it. It is by Kelly Carpenter and I gather it was made famous by Michael W. Smith. It’s actually very pleasant but has no liturgical use.
It is a classic P&W slow song to be sung with a lot of emotion.
The text is here but gets repeated a lot. The sheet music can be purchased all over the net, including at musicnotes.
Kelly Carpenter:
Michael W. Smith:
Hillsong:
Karoake!
A bunch of impressive instrumentals:
Entrance: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Psalm 33 (O’Brien)
Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114
Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Thanksgiving: The Servant Song (Gillard) AOV 2/169
Recessional: Though the Mountains May Fall (Schutte) AOV 1/182
Emma’s parish are doing this Marty Haugen song today and after being uplifted by his wise presence at the APMN conference last weekend I’d decided to have a listen.
She carefully noted it is from the “Up From the Waters” collection (so purchase the collection if you want to use the song), and I wondered why. It turns out Haugen has another song from a mass setting with the same title and even GIA get them mixed up. All the downloadable sheet music you can buy is the other one. The text is here (scroll down).
The sound sample here is the one I was after, but the sheet music sample on that page is the wrong one.
I have a choir copy of Gather Comprehensive so I’m afraid I just made up some simple chords and doubtless I will lose all of Haugen’s harmonic subtlety.
While I thought I would be plugging gaps of OCP songs post AOV from this collection, I am actually getting more traditional songs that were missed and those that didn’t get into Spirit & Song.
This is not the song from Godspell.
This is Matthias Claudius’s song translated by Jane Campbell (details at Hymnary) and originally set to WIR PFLUGEN by J.P.A Schulz. The Youtube clips are all this version and are mostly from harvest liturgies.
Here it is set to the tune HEILSMAN by Kevin Keil. The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP. The words at OCP differ slightly as you can see in the sample sheet music at their site.
This sort of song makes no sense here in the subtropics where the rain is rarely soft and refreshing, and it never snows.
This request is for a song for which I cannot find sheet music.
Godsongs has the text and also couldn’t find any sheet music.
Since the author is unknown and the tune is simple I’ve made a fake sheet for it and if it isn’t correct let me know.
This is another request, this time for a setting by David Haas of Psalm 148. It is from Psalms for the Church Year Vol. IX, which I do not happen to own.
You can purchase this psalm in that collection at GIA, where they have a snippet to listen to. The text is here (page 8). It is quite a treat but even the refrain goes too high really for assembly use and the verses will need a cantor for sure.
My backing is basically a guess:
