This is another request from Frenzy Cool for a song by Moses Catan. It is for Eucharist.
The text is here and a recording can be heard here. The only sheet music I can find is an SATB arrangement by Ray Santos available here (scroll down). There is also a very odd MIDI arrangement there.
My backing is rather tame by comparison.
This song comes in Spanish, English and Bilingual versions and musically is recommended as a South American dance.
I suspect it works better in Spanish as the tune has some extra triplets to match the Spanish text.
The Spanish text is by Rosa Maria Icaza and the music is by Jaime Cortez, but I can’t see who is responsible for the English version. Spiritandsong have the texts of the refrains but you will need to check the sample at OCP where you can buy the sheet music to see the rest of the text. There are snippets of the song to listen to at both sites.
This song is a request from Frenzy Cool who seems to be looking for wedding songs.
The lyrics are by Timothy Dudley-Smith and can be found here. The setting she asked for is the tune COMFORT by Michael Joncas. The sheet music can be purchased in a collection at GIA and as a single sheet at sheetmusicplus.
I guessed the chords with the help of BIAB for the backing as I only have the choir version of Gather Comprehensive.
These are lovely:
This is another song from Emma’s parish, which was written by the wonderful team of James Phillip McAuley and Richard Connolly.
You just don’t get texts like this very often. Read it here. You can purchase the sheet music in the collection Year of Grace Music Book at AOV.
Emma has started putting up music selections and this song by Michael Mangan is a lovely choice. It is based on Micah 6:8 and I remember singing it in the year 2000 because it was in the collection Sing Jubilee, which is out of print.
It is, however, still available in the collection This Is the Time, which can be purchased at Litmus Productions. You can also purchase the sheet music for download at WLP where the text is in the sample and you can listen to a snippet.
My backing was made on an ancient version of BIAB in the year 2000. This is a render of the MIDI file.
Entrance: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
Psalm 19 (O’Brien)
The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.
Gifts: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 67
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195
The Beatitudes (Kearney)
Thanksgiving: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75
Recessional: Lift Up Your Hearts (O’Connor) AOV 1/156
So much for my hope that this book would find missing OCP songs post AOV 1996-2006.
However, this version in OCP’s “Guitar Accompaniment Book” raises some interesting questions. They give the first two verses on the original text by Martin Luther as translated by Frederick H. Hedge and two verses of an alternative text by Arvella Schuller, I suspect the wife of Robert Schuller of Crystal Cathedral fame. They leave out the last two verses of the original which contain lines that can pretty clearly be thought of as attacks on the Catholic Church and the Pope of his day.
If you are going to include this classic Lutheran hymn, why not include all the verses. Or… if you aren’t going to include the verses because they might cause scandal in a Catholic church, why include the hymn.
The full text and sheet music for the tune, EIN FESTE BURG, are at Hymnary. If for some reason you want OCP’s version, it is available there and you can preview Schuller’s alternative text in the sample there.
More BIAB fake organ:
This is a noble simple text from Genevieve Glen OSB, set in this case, to PROSPECT an old tune from William Walker’s The Southern Harmony. If you need a song for St Joseph this will do nicely.
The sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP where the text is in the sample. They also have a chant setting, which changes the whole feel – for the worse I suspect, but that is personal preference.
An amazing euphonium instrumental can be heard at You-Tube.
Ryan’s parish use this song set to OLD HUNDREDTH.
The text is at Hymnary that notes other settings that appear more popular.
The words are by Charles William Everest.
I’ve already blogged the tune here.
I have bought a second hand copy of OCP’s “Guitar Accompaniment Book” on Abe Books. It is the 2005 edition but has some songs from the 2006 and 2007 supplement inserted into the loose leaf binder. It appears to be missing one or two songs but otherwise should fill in the songs from about 1996-2006 in the OCP canon that were too late for As One Voice 1&2 and not included in Spirit and Song 1&2. It also will fill some traditional hymn gaps.
This song is Owen Alstott’s translation of Puer natus in Bethlehem and the tune is obviously PUER NATUS. There are lots of slightly different translations of this text about so you might want to see the lyrics from the sample at OCP. The sheet music can be purchased there and you can hear a lengthy snippet of the chant version.
I’ve made two versions that are rhythmic because BIAB is lousy at free chant.
These are nice Latin versions:
