Church Music

This has a pretty tune.  It is another song for the saints, this time by Bob Hurd.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. You can hear the original here.

My version has a little more pep.

This Irish styled song is another that can be used on saints’ days. The lyrics are by Harry Hagan and Timothy R Smith. It is for All Saints but suppose it could also replace a Litany.

The text is at spiritandsong where it can be purchased for download.

My attempt came out a little too bouncy.

This song by Matt Maher is a perfectly usable Litany of the Saints adaptable to any saints you would like to use with the cantor singing the saints’ names and the assembly replying with “pray for us”.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.

In my backing the cantor line is piano and the assembly strings:

In the songs for special occasions in Spirit and Song Vol 2 we come to a series of songs celebrating saints.  This one by Bobby Fisher and Greg Lee is a bit bland and suffers from mechanical verse texts, but the optional coda of alleluias is actually quite interesting musically. It also goes a bit high for assembly use if you think this would fit a liturgy.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download, although what they list as verse 2 and 3 are actually just verse 2. You can hear the original here.

This song by Steve Angrisano is a rock song for the Feast of Christ the King. The tune is singable despite the triplets although it does go quite high (E).

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. You can hear the original here.

My backing is straight forward rock:

Angrisano guests with this youth group singing his song – great brass.

This is the music that has been selected for this week by the music liturgy team, but it will also be used by some of our musicians who are helping out at a parish on the Gold Coast this weekend.

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)

Psalm 96 (O’Brien)

Proclaim to ev’ry nation the marvellous deeds of God.

Gifts: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126

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

Lord to Whom Shall We Go (Herry) AOV 1/6

Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149

Recessional: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114

I’m up to a section of Spirit & Song Vol 2 that is called “Songs for Special Occasions.” This song by Ken Canedo is marked out for Christ the King but has obvious uses more generally.  It is based on the very early hymn found in Phillipians 2:6-11.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. You can hear the original at Canedo’s MySpace page.

I must have been in an odd mood when I did this backing:

Ken Canedo explains the song in this episode of “The Commons.”

I blogged this great song by Amanda McKenna here.

We were going to sing it at a Deanery music gathering soon but the event has been cancelled.  Just for fun I made a dance version with my lousy singing. I doubt I would have got away with this version.

The proper version is much better:

I gave up on my mass setting some years ago due to problems with the Gloria. I was recently asked about the Memorial Acclamations so I’ll put up the music for them.  The tune of the “We Proclaim” and the “When We Eat” are identical. I’m having another look at the Gloria to see if it can be fixed.

Music © Geoffrey Madden

Download Sheet Music: Memorial Acclamations

This is the last of the Pentecost songs and is a lively setting of a translation of Veni Creator Spiritus set to a celtic reimagining of the “Lambilotte” arranged by Sarah Hart and Kevin B. Hipp. You can hear their version here.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.

For context this is more likely how Louis Lambilotte would have thought of the song he wrote:

My backing is Hart and Hipp’s arrangement.