Ryans’ parish does lots of music I’ve never heard of. This one was used for Trinity Sunday.
The text is by Leon M Adkins and can be found here. The tune is ELLACOMBE an eighteenth century German tune whose author is unknown. Hymnary has links to the sheet music.
My backing is the result of being tired of the very few organ music options on BIAB, but the country slide guitar is probably unforgivable.
Yay for singing to MIDI backings:
My biannual trip to the Lifeline book sale in Brisbane looking for an accompaniment version of Gather Australia has once again failed to find the Holy Grail.
I did add to my collection of wire bound Praise and Worship books, which occasionally come in handy. I got my copy of “Together in Song” there some years back and it has been very helpful for more traditional tunes.
This year I found the Accompaniment book of “The New Living Parish Hymn Book.” It is an Australian Catholic Resource first published in 1987. Some of the songs have chord symbols, which is what I need. Many of the arrangements are by the editor, Fr John De Luca, who was the director of music at Manly Seminary and then the director of the choir at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney from 1971-5. It is mainly traditional fare but contains Ray Repp of all people and also Peter Kearney songs. There is also a proper copy of Estelle White’s “Gentle As Silence”, which I played for many years off a hand written copy.
De Luca steered clear of the larger publishing houses and the selections are therefore a little thin even for the 1980s, but is in remarkably good nick, with its red white and blue ribbons still attached. I suspect it may plug some gaps.
Chris’s parish uses this song for Corpus Christi. It’s another from the collaboration of composer, Richard Connolly and poet, James McAuley. It shares a refrain with their Easter hymn “By Your Kingly Power” which is nothing if not efficient, but the verses are markedly different. It has the sort of inventive tune you come to expect from Connolly. The text makes it especially suitable for the Feast of the Body and Blood but it is general Eucharist song as well.
The text is here (scroll down to the communion hymn). My copy is in “Together in Song”, but it is also available at AOV in the “Year of Grace Music Book” and the old Australian Hymn Book.
I didn’t use dodgy organ sounds this time.
We are switching to Maggie Russell’s Mass of Freedom this week.
Entrance: We Walk By Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63
Psalm 92 (O’Brien)
Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195
Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Thanksgiving: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
Number 73 in Voices As One Vol 1 is “Our God Reigns” that also appeared in Spirit & Song so I’ve already blogged that song here.
Number 74 is a setting of Psalm 130 by Mike Hay suitable for Lent or funerals. It starts in F and by a series of key changes finishes in Bb. It’s all smooth though so I doubt it is a problem.
The text is in the sample at WLP (scroll down in the sample) where the sheet music can be purchased and you can listen to a snippet.
Another song from Trinity Sunday, this time from R.S.’s parish.
Sung to the Old Hundredth tune (Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow and Be Present at Our Table Lord etc), the text, a translation from the Latin by John Chandler, is here.
I quite unnecessarily posted a backing to this tune here.
Also known as “Come Now Almighty King” this text was originally sung to the same tune as “God Save the King,” (try it – it works) but is now sung to a tune by Felice de Giardini an Italian living in London at the time (hence the tune is called ITALIAN TUNE). The author of the text is unknown and the more miltaristic verses are usually avoided these days.
This is the acceptable text, but Hymnary has the old version asking Jesus to “scatter Thy foes.” You can also look at various versions of the sheet music there.
It’s still a bit over triumphant for my taste. Christianity always seems to work better when it is downtrodden.
It is a Trinitarian hymn and as such was used for that Mass by Ryan’s Parish.
My backing cobbles together a simple organ backing.
I don’t need to do “Only in God” by John Michael Talbot (VAO 1/71) because I have already blogged that here.
“Our God”is an Ed Bolduc song that relies on call and response from the cantor and the assembly and it can’t really work without that, so if you parish doesn’t swing that way look elsewhere.
The text can be downloaded here. You can listen to a snippet at I-Tunes.
My backing puts the two vocal lines at opposite ends of the stereo spectrum for learning purposes.
This presentation at the Cathedral was on the Twentieth of May and can be heard here. It is certainly worth spending the time to listen.
There was much to admire in his talk where he continued his exploration of the scriptures looking for the stories that lead us to truth. He emphasised the root metaphor of the Bible being that of journey. Journey implies a dislocation, a wrench and pain – God is a dislocating God. He explored why narrative is such a powerful tool for us to find hope in tragedy through locating ourselves in story. The stories are necessarily provisional and unfinished, hence our reliance on lived tradition.
Would the Cathedral have collapsed if he took it the next obvious step and observed that that makes the life of the Church of necessity relativistic? He has four more sessions to get there but I’m not holding my breath.
Numbers were down a little but he is still pulling a powerful crowd and is now simulcast around the world apparently.
This time the music and support was provided by Ignite Youth, which I always worry is an imperative. They played “Where the Spirit of the Lord Is”, a Hillsong Live song and a better song from local church Citipointe called “Presence Power Glory”. They had the words of Roby Curtis’s song “We Are The Body” on their handout, but didn’t get a chance to sing that.
The text for “Where the Spirit of the Lord Is” is here. The song is by Ben Fielding and manages every P&W cliche before going completely OTT. It was a good choice for this series as the line “we are slaves no more” is an important part of the Archbishop’s story. The sheet music is available all over the web in various arrangements and keys including musicnotes and brentwoodbenson.
My backing is in G.
“Presence Power Glory” is by Joel and Savannah Ramsay of Citipointe, a church in Brisbane I hadn’t heard of, and the chords at least are available in a free download of their music book “The Wildfire Music Book”. With no lead sheet anywhere it was back the the uke and spending some time with the song, so my backing may be approximate. The text is here.
Just so you know this song goes introx2/versex2/prechorus/chorus/ introx1/versex1/prechorus/chorusx2/Instrumentalx2/Bridgex4/chorusx1/Bridgex2.
The bridge and the chorus are designed to be able to be sung consecutively and then together.
My backing is in G.
Citipointe quiet:
Citipointe louder:
I’ll get back to “Voices As One” eventually but I’m still being educated on song choices by the correspondents who put up their music liturgy choices here. This is another selection for Pentecost from Ryan’s parish that I’m catching up with.
With a tune with a lilt attributed to St Columba and a text from Edwin Hatch what’s not to like. Godsongs has information, the text and links to sheet music.
