Entrance: Sing Out Earth and Skies (Haugen) AOV 2/32
Psalm/Canticle for Trinity Sunday (O’Brien)
Glory and Praise forever,
Glory and Praise forever.
Gospel Acclamation: Halle Halle Halle (trad) AOV 2/46
Gifts: Trinity Song (Andersen)
Communion: Seed Scattered and Sown (Feiten)
Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71
Thanksgiving: A New Commandment (Unknown)
Recessional: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
This is a P&W song that actually praises God in a singable fashion. It was written by Twila Paris and the text is available at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download. You can also hear a snippet of Tom Booth’s version of the song there.
My backing goes a bit Irish:
This is Twila Paris singing the song in concert in the 80s, after an instrumental preamble.
This is her original version:
More bird song! This is a beautiful and singable song from Bob Hurd that has lots of liturgical uses – healing services, times of trauma etc.
It can purchased for download at OCP. You can hear the original at Bob Hurd’s My Space page.
Bob Hurd talks about the song and has the lyrics in this video.
Since the lyrics are out there I’ll reproduce them here – I need to hear “you will not be left comfortless” sometimes.
Verse 1
As the rain first falls and then,
then it flows away,
first you’ll feel and then forget,
then forget your pain
Refrain
God’s eye is on the sparrow
and sees your darkest night;
you will not be left comfortless,
for you are God’s delight.
Verse 2
Now your heart it feels like,
like an open wound;
once so full of life and joy,
now an empty room.
Refrain
© Bob Hurd 1990.
I’m in Spirit & Song Vol 1’s Prayer and praise songs and am up to Ken Canedo‘s adaptation of Psalm 139. While it is certainly singable by an assembly it still is probably best as a solo devotional. The lyrics have lots of “I”s and there are some long held notes that might cause difficulties. Certainly the way it is sung in the snippet at spiritandsong (where you can find the text and purchase the sheet music for download) is a very solo style. You can hear a full version at Ken Canedo’s MySpace page.
My backing might help get the pause followed by the triplet of “I want to soar” right and the melody for less than intuitive last line of the verse.
This is a moving clip of a choir singing the song at a funeral.
Fly like a Bird” by Ken Canedo from genoark on GodTube.
This is a very beautiful solo devotional piece with lots of long held notes and short trills that make it less suited for assembly use. It is by Twila Paris and has a swelling bridge and a big key change to belt the last verse out of the park.
The text is at spiritandsong. It can be purchased as a single sheet at various places on the net including sheetmusicplus.
Entrance: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
Psalm: Lord Send Out Your Spirit (Zsigray)
Gospel Acclamation: Halle Halle Halle (Unknown) AOV 2/46
Gifts: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 67
Communion: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
Lord to Whom Shall We Go (Herry) AOV 1/6
Thanksgiving: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75
Recessional: The Spirit Lives to Set Us Free (Lundy) AOV 2/165
This is a fun, if lyrically simplistic, reggae song written by a committee. The lyrics are by Tony and Lynn Melendez and Augie and Dawn Leal with music by Tony Melendez and Augie Leal.
The text is at spiritandsong. I can’t find a downloadable copy of the sheet music to purchase so you may have to get it in Spirit & Song Vol 1. You can hear the original here.
These people are commendably joyous while struggling with the syncopation, but throw in a key change to mix things up.
This song by Steve Angrisano and Tom Tomaszek has verses based on a prayer by St Francis and a chorus that isn’t. It is singable but best as a vehicle for private prayer rather than a communal rite. I suppose the you could sing “our” rather than “my” and it would help.
The text is at spiritandsong where it can be purchased for download. You can hear the original here. There is a good MIDI file for the song here.
My backing is an awkward jazz version that is best just for learning the tune.
This duo have fine harmonies:
This is essentially an uptempo chant by Tom Tomaszek that rocks along nicely and is not too hard to sing. It is a beatitude from Luke 11:28 or maybe Ps119.
The text, which is just repeated for as long as you need to, is at spiritandsong. It can be purchased as part of a collection at OCP. You can hear Tomaszek’s version at his My Space page.
My backing follows the arrangement in Spirit & Song with a long instrumental introduction and brings in the harmony line after the first repetition.
For those who are thinking, “There isn’t enough autotune in Catholic music,” the Arch Street Band have something for you.
This is a song by Rich Mullins that I have heard about for years but never actually heard until now. In Mullins’ sadly short life he wrote some pretty good songs, some of which come up soon, but I doubt this is one of them. Mullins’ songs haven’t been heard of where I have played and so I missed the debate on whether this song was suitable for liturgy because of its popularity with young people back in the nineties.
It wasn’t — it is a solo vehicle with far too many notes crammed together for an assembly (OK it’s meant to be call and response), the text is a scatter gun of images from all over the place and the chorus sounds like a hair metal singalong — but that makes it fine for some P&W settings. Stealing lines from Irving Berlin is one way to highlight a poorly written lyric if that was the intent, but I somehow doubt this song was tongue in cheek. I love rock music and think it can be used liturgically, but am not a fan of this style so I am probably biased against this song. This document tiptoes around the issue.
The text is at spiritandsong. You can buy an SATB version at sheetmusicplus but since this is a guitar song you probably don’t need more than the chords which are all over the net.
This clip shows Michael W. Smith just getting the crowd singing along the chorus and dispensing with the verse altogether.
This is the original with the call and response verse.
