Church Music

This is a request for a song written by David Haas that he called a love song to God.

The text is here. The sheet music is available from GIA.

David Haas:

Sarah Haag:

This one had slipped through my notice, as it has been used a couple of times at RS’s parish. I made a backing it for it some time ago, forgot – and then made another. It has a a similar theme to “St Theresa’s Prayer”.

It was written by Sebastian Temple and the text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP.

The prolific Chris Brunell:

Piano by Heidi does an instrumental version:

The jazz stylings of the Ave Maria Choir of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Singapore):

The CHL Group in collaboration with the “Love of God” group, Holy Family Parish, Choi Hung,HKSAR:

This is a request in plenty of time for Christmas. This song by Daniel Kantor is very lovely as a stand alone song, but has been arranged with the addition of “Silent Night”. Basically just do the first verse of “Silent Night” after the three verses of “Night of Silence”. If you are up for it they can also be sung simultaneously.

The lyrics make it a poor choice in the southern hemisphere while we are fainting in an overcrowded poorly ventilated church covered in sweat… then again while symbolically inappropriate here, perhaps a few frozen thoughts might help.

The text is here and you can purchase the sheet music at OCP.

My backing starts sedately enough but I was playing with some new horn sounds, which build after a couple of verses:

It is obviously a crowd pleaser as a choir piece, so in various arrangements:

Entrance: Glory in the Cross (Schutte)

Psalm 23 (McKenna)

Lord, this is the people that long to see your face.

Gifts: Blessed Be the Lord (McKenna) AOV NG 13

Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1

Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Thanksgiving: The Beatitudes (Balhoff/Ducote)

– this is not familiar to this assembly so it will be started on CD.

Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59

I’ve blogged a modern version of this song here but this is the original. The text, that I had thought was author unknown, is listed here as by Edward Caswell.

Hymnary has the text, sheet music and Caswell’s biography here or you could purchase the sheet music at OCP.

I have more fake organ from BIAB.

From OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book 2005:

22 All That is Hidden
23 All the Earth
24 All the Ends of the Earth
25 Alle, Alle, Alleluia

“Alleluia Alleluia” is an Easter text by Christopher Wordsworth, the nephew of the other Wordsworth, set to Beethoven’s “Hymn to Joy”. I unnecessarily and strangely blogged the tune here.

Hymnary has the text (OCP omit two verses) and alternative settings. The sheet music can be purchased from OCP.

From OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book

18 All I Ask of You

19 All My Days

20 All People That On Earth Do Dwell

“All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving” is based on the Trisagion from the Fifth century and was written by Melvin Farrell S.S.

The tune is GOTT VATER SEI GEPRIESEN which I have blogged here. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where you can also find the text.

Getting back to OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book:

GAB 16 All Hail, Adored  Trinity

No 17 is “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” with a text by Edward Perronet, with alterations by John Rippon, set to CORONATION by Oliver Holden.

The sheet music and the text is at Hymnary, but the version in this collection only shares the first verse with that text. The second and third verse here don’t seem to match any of the many versions and verses on the internet but you can find them in this sample at OCP. You can also purchase the sheet music there.

Some grand versions:

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.