We are up to Psalm 98 from Psalms For All Time Vol 2 by Paul Mason, which is the psalm for the Sixth Week of Easter Year B and the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year C. Paul Mason also notes it’s use for the Admission to the Candidacy for Ordination.
Response: The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving pow’r, his saving pow’r.
Verses: Psalm 98: 1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, (5-6)
This is a bit of fun. This is Paul Mason’s setting for Psalm 96, which is for Midnight Mass at Christmas. It is from Psalms For All Time Vol 2.
The third verse goes off with an almighty crescendo.
Response: Today! Today is born our Saviour, Christ the Lord, Christ the Lord.
Verses: Psalm 96: 1-2a, 2b-3, 11-13b, 13cd.
My backing is BIAB fake organ with trumpets:
I have been looking through Paul Mason’s marvellous Psalms For All Time Vol 2. He has composed psalms for use as psalms if you have cantors, but are fine a hymns for use at any time. There is so much investion in each one, it’s fun to make a backing and see what he got up to next.
This one is Psalm 90 for the Eighteenth and Twenty-third Sundays in Ordinary Time Year C.
Response: In ev’ry age, O Lord, O Lord, you have been our refuge, in ev’ry age.
Verses: Psalm 90: 3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17.
He specifies a joyful response and a reflective verse, so I tried that in BIAB.
Yet another Psalm 89 setting from Paul Mason’s Psalms For All Time Vol 2, this time for the Christmas Vigil. They all have the same basic tune, adapted to match the differing verses.
Response: For ever, I will sing forever, I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Verses: Psalm 89: 4-5, 16-17, 27 and 29.
Continuing with Mason’s many settings of Psalm 89, this is the one for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A from Psalms For All Time Volume 2.
Response: For ever, I will sing forever, I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Verses: Psalm 89: 2-3, 16-17, 18-19.
I’ll just put up backings for the different versions of Mason’s settings of Psalm 89 in Psalms For All Time Vol 2. This one is for the Fourth Sunday in Advent Year B.
Response: For ever, I will sing forever, I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Verses: Psalm 89: 2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29.
Mason gives us four versions of Psalm 89 in Psalms For All Time Vol 2. This one is for Chrism Mass and also for Ordination, which means it will mainly be for Cathedral use where the paid musicians live. Nonetheless it’s nice to have his take on it.
Response: For ever, I will sing forever, I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Verses: Psalm 89: 21-22, 25 and 27.
The music is SATB + descant for the response. It is his usual singable melody with memorable music.
My backing just does the melody line and a BIAB accompaniment based on the chords as usual. The chords here, however, are not usual with everything (add9) or Maj9.
This is Paul Mason’s setting of Psalm 80 for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A from Psalms For All Time Vol 2. This has the the same refrain tune as the other Psalm 80 from yesterday and basically the same verse melody just rearranged to match the different text.
Refrain: The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel, Israel.
Verses Psalm 80: 9 and 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20.
By the way you get a lot for the A$39.95 you pay for this book. Apart from all the psalm settings (34 by my count), often with SATB refrains, descants, extra instrumnetal lines and real sheet music for those who can read it, distributed throughout the book there are conscise gems of practical instruction including:
It is also a delight for me as a non sight reader to hear how his tunes go, as there are few resources for listening to these psalms that I can find.
Psalms For All Time Vol 2 by Paul Mason has psalms that can be used as hymns or in their liturgical homes. This one is Psalm 80 for the First Sunday in Advent Year B and the Fourth Sunday in Advent Year C.
The refrain is:
Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
The verses are Psalm 80: 2ac and 3b, 15-16, 18-19.
The tune has Mason’s usual melodic inventions to maintain interest. Going to a B natural in the middle of a verse in the key of F certainly wakes you up. Each verse varies in length but has similar melodic motifs so you know you’re in the same psalm.
Entrance: Merciful God – Entrance (Alonso)
Psalm 129 (Mason)
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Gifts: Oh God, Why Are You Silent (Haugen)
Communion: Tree of Life (Thompson) AOV NG138
Recessional: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
