Ryan put up his parish music selections last week and they included this song. It is Omer Westendorf’s translation of Ubi Caritas, set to a tune called CHRISTIAN LOVE by Paul Benoit OSB.
The text is here and the sheet music is available at WLP in C which is probably too high unless you have an accomplished choir.
I’m guessing the chords here and I don’t fully understand what time signature is happening here but this is my backing in G.
Entrance: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114
Psalm 47 (O’Brien)
God mounts his throne with shouts of Joy:
a blare of trumpets for the Lord.
Gifts: The Fullness of God (Andersen) AOV 2/62
Communion: Table Song (Haas)
Lord to Whom Shall We Go? (Herry) AOV 1/6
Thanksgiving: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano/Tomaszek) AOV NG 52
This is another Ed Bolduc song from “Voices As One” and is a setting of Psalm 138.
The text is in the sample at WLP where the sheet music can be purchased. The snippet you can hear there is a bouncy pop version that teeters towards reggae.
My version is more blues shuffle.
Many of the songs posted here at Easter by commentators were ones I didn’t know because I’ve only been playing since 1997 at churches where the more traditional songs have been largely left behind – no organs don’t you know.
The text is early 16th century by Jean Tisserand translated by John M Neale in 1851 and based on Matthew 28 and John 20. The music is O FILI ET FILLAE – a seventeenth century French tune.
I’m doing backings for these old songs to familiarise myself with them as I suspect I’m one of the few church musician who doesn’t know these songs.
Hymnary has all the details and links to sheet music – it notes this song is in 149 hymnals!
My backing is an attempt to avoid the dodgy church organ VST plug ins and is meant to sound vaguely of the period – such as BIAB can manage.
Like wow…
This is a setting of Psalm 19 by Marty Haugen, which unusually for him happens to be published by WLP.
The text is in the sample at WLP where the sheet music can be purchased.
My backing is gentle jazz.
I’m not sure I’ll get all the songs from Easter that were suggested by commentators here before the season of Easter is over.
Geoff Bullock’s “Refresh My Heart” is a fine P&W ballad but I’m not sure it is a particularly good song for liturgical purposes (please debate). Songs that have lots of “me” and “I” in them are problematic for a communal activity.
The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at praisecharts.
Number 60 in “Voices As One” is “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High”, which I have already blogged here.
Number 61 is “Lord, You Have the Words” by Ed Bolduc. It is based on Psalm 19 and has many liturgical uses.
The text is available in the sample at WLP where you can buy the sheet music and listen to a snippet of this restrained hymn. The sheet music has lots of harmonies that become more elaborate as the verses progress.
My backing has none of that subtlety and is 80s style pop.
This Ray Repp song turned up in the liturgies around Easter that were in the comments section here this year.
I used to sing this at my Presbyterian church in the early 1970s and I’m surprised it migrated from the Catholic church in that era.
The text is here. We used to sing “you shall live —live — live – live – live.”
Steven C Warner (of the Notre Dame Folk choir) has set Psalm 29, but the text doesn’t match what is used for Year A Baptism of the Lord so it’s just a choir item really.
You’ll have to get the text from Voices As One or from the sheet music available at WLP.
The Notre Dame Folk choir is coming to Australia soon and holding workshops in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane if you get a chance to catch up with them.
This is a Frank Andersen song that I’ve never played, but is obviously known at my parish as it is the recessional for next week.
I have the music in Scripture in Song: the Music of Frank Andersen MSC. This and all his other available books and CDs can be sourced here. I don’t usually put up lyrics anymore, but this is a pretty obscure song and Father Andersen deserves to be better known around the world.
Refrain
If the Spirit of God lives in you… Sing to the Lord!
Praise him for his goodness!
Deep in the Spirit your song!
Deep in the Spirit your song!
1. I will play for him… Joy filled is my song!
My life is my melody!
To him do I belong!
2. Deep in Christ I live… Faith in him my prayer!
When my soul is torn and dry,
faith to sense him there!
3. Spirit in my heart… Sing for me my prayer!
Deep within my heart I know:
you will always be there!
© Frank Andersen MSC
