RS’s parish had three new songs to me recently for which I will do backings. This one is by Bernadette Farrell. She has based the text on Psalm 19:8-11. It is another very singable tune from Farrell.
The text is at spiritandsong and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP.
This must be a popular one based on the large number of clips at You-Tube.
This song by JoAnn Brown is what it says, an Advent song.
It looks and sounds like a song for children. The text is in the the sample at OCP where you can purchase the sheet music.
My backing bops along for the littlies. The harmony line is the tuned percussion sound.
This hymn by Fred Kaan was sung at one of Chris’s parishes using the tune LAUDA ANIMA. Kaan’s obituary suggests a wonderful personality.
The wonderful and challenging text is here and I’ve blogged the tune here.
It is more usually set to WESTMINSTER ABBEY or REGENT SQUARE amongst other tunes and places in London.
The music chosen by the music liturgy team for next week is:
Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12
Psalm 128 O’Brien
May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
Gifts: In Love We Choose to Live (Cotter) AOV 2/63
Communion: Table Song (Haas)
We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81
Thanksgiving: Summoned by Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18
Recessional: They’ll Know We Are Christians (Scholtes) AOV 1/130
(Marty Haugen is in the country this week at the APMN conference but we had already picked his songs anyway!)
That said, the team that put the rest of the liturgy together have asked that we change to:
Gifts: Prayer of St Francis (Temple) AOV 2/126
Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano/Tomaszek) AOV NG 52
…and use this clip as a reflection.
… it may be possible, technology willing.
Ryan’s parish used this song based on Micah 6 recently.
The stirring text is by Albert F. Bayley and is at Hope Publishing. The tune is SHARPETHORNE by Erik Routley and the sheet music can be purchased at various sites on the internet including an SATB arrangement at sheetmusicplus.
A simple fake organ backing:
I was asked if I wanted to do another backing of this song that I blogged here.
The nice thing about BIAB is in a few minutes you can alter the feel of a piece. I’ve slowed the song down and changed the tone of the backing altogether.
In my copy of the OCP Guitar Accompaniment Book:
8 Adore Te Devote (Godhead Here in Hiding)
This Latin text by Thomas Aquinas is notable for having an English translation by Gerard Manly Hopkins, the great poet. The chant is ADORE TE DEVOTE from the seventeenth century, which didn’t stop OCP copyrighting their guitar accompaniment. The sheet music is otherwise public domain and available setting myriad texts at Hymnary.
I also have a copy of the chant setting with this text in English in The Australian Hymn Book 590.
Ryan’s parish sang this text by Lutheran Minister Herman G. Stuempfle Jnr recently set to ST ANNE by William Croft.
The text is here and Hymnary have the sheet music.
I’ve blogged the tune here.
Emma’s parish sing this very early Dan Schutte song that is a new one for me that is really quite lovely. The text is based on passages from Matthew’s and John’s Gospels and can be found at Schutte’s site. (No 13)
The sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP.
It’s great to see selections from other parishes around the world to see what other possibilities there are, or sometimes to see we all went for much the same thing. I keep trying to find songs from Mary’s parish in Ireland but the Gaelic selections defeat me.
I managed to restrain myself this time and made a more sensible backing from which to learn:
The original I believe:
Pretty but a little OTT (and is that the Grim Reaper in the picture?):
Via Christi Choir:
This is a Michael Joncas song for Advent that is new to me. He based it on Isaiah 40. It has the same tune for verses 1,3 &5 with a different tune for verses 2 & 4. That might make a cantor a good idea, or better yet a choir doing the harmonies.
Cantus Mundi has the text and a few You-Tube clips. The sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP.
My backing is a gypsy waltz.
This is the original with its medieval fayre arrangement:
This version starts slowly but should have picked up speed at some point:
I like the enthusiasm here:
