Entrance: Morning has Broken (Farjeon) AOV 1/135
Psalm 66:
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
Gifts: Isaiah 49 (Landry) AOV 1/89
Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
A New Commandment (Unknown)
Thanksgiving: Jesus is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
This is another Eucharist song from Spirit & Song Vol 1, this time with lyrics by Tom Booth and T. Timothy Casey set by Tom Booth. This is another beautiful tune that makes me wonder if it is too complicated for an assembly. I’m often told I’m wrong about these things but time signature changes, variations in tune between verses and a contrasting bridge all make for a steep learning curve. You can hear the original here.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
This is an interesting song for Communion that says all the right things and in the snippet at Spirit & Song has readings from the Emmaus story said over the music, which are nice. I fear there are too many words spilling over each other too quickly for an assembly to comfortably manage this one and it makes little sense as a solo vehicle. It has a key change for variety and a repetitive refrain but it shouldn’t work on face value. I’d love to be told I’m wrong.
The text is at spiritandsong where you can purchase the sheet music for download.
My backing hasn’t achieved the easy rhythm they are after.
This is a very professional recording of the song by the Arch Street Band from Boston – very impressive.
Scott Soper wrote this hymn that is in the Communion section of Spirit & Song Vol 1. I’d see it more as a funeral song, actually, but it is a fine hymn and is more traditional and singable than many from the nineties.
The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.
Oops – I am getting forgetful – I have blogged this already because it is in As One Voice. Oh well, it is a different backing. The sheet music in Spirit & Song adds the harmony line for the chorus but is otherwise much the same.
I am in the Eucharist songs from Spirit and Song Vol 1 and have got to this song written by John Michael Talbot. It strikes me as being better for solo voice, it’s so delicate and quiet, but I’d love to hear of parishes that sing it well together.
The text is here and it can purchased in a collection at OCP.
This is a communion song by Steve Angrisano and Tom Tomaszek. It is reasonably singable despite the syncopation and key change but I don’t think I want to use it. It’s not the singing in God’s voice problem, I just can’t sing “though you suffer as I suffered.” I could live with “you may suffer as I suffered” I suppose.
If you are comfortable with that the text is at spiritandsong and it can be purchased for download there.
This is gentle communion hymn from Bobby Fisher. It has instrumental interludes and a key change for added interest if desired, but it a reasonable enough effort in plain vanilla mode as well. It’s nice that a hymn from the nineties can be just three verses with a singable melody.
The text is at spiritandsong where it can be purchased for download.
My backing can’t do all the subtlety of the arrangement so I had to fudge things a little.
I’ve reached communion songs in Spirit & Song Vol 1 and I’m hoping that there are gems to be discovered in the songs that weren’t selected in the As One Voice Collections.
“As One Unknown” is an excellent hymn but the version here needs some explaining.
The text of the verses is by Timothy Dudley-Smith a retired Anglican bishop set to the tune “Repton” by C. Hubert H. Parry, who was so famous he is buried in St Paul’s, London. I love the poetry of the text which you can find here.
This is a stirring brass band version which is slightly different to the tune in Spirit & Song (the note for “heard” goes down to an A rather than up to an F#) and has a tag on the end which repeats the last phrase to get you back to the verses. The music for that version is here.
So far so good. Cyprian Consiglio has stripped the tag, added 2 lines, repeated one of them and called it the refrain and written some music for it.
The lines are:
As they knew you in the breaking of the bread,
May we know you in the breaking of the bread,
May we know you in the breaking of the bread.
© Cyprian Consiglio OSB 1995.
I’m not at all sure it needs the chorus, but I suppose that’s what makes it for Eucharist.
Entrance: Alleluia No 1 (Fishel) AOV 1/15
Psalm: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 (as response)
Gifts: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Communion: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27
Thanksgiving: I’ll Be Always Loving You (Watts) AOV 1/82
Recessional: City of God (Schutte) AO)V 1/57
This recessional by Paul Hillebrand has a lot going for it but it does require a cantor for the call and response verses.
The text is at spiritandsong. It can be purchased as part of the “Songs of the Good Shepherd” collection at Hillebrand’s website where you can hear a snippet of it done as a childrens’s song. OCP has the sheet music to purchase for download and a funky sample for listening purposes.
My backing is at 107 bpm and I think the note to play it at 152 in Spirit & Song Vol 1 is a typo. I, too, have gone the funk route.
