Church Music

Entrance: Prepare the Way of the Lord (Boniwell) CWB II 250

Gifts: Maranatha ( Smith)

Communion: Instrumental Music

Recessional: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174

Entrance: O Emmanuel (Mangan) CWB II 241

Gifts: Like a Candle (O’Brien/Ogilvie) AOV NG 91

Communion: Instrumental music

Recessional: Maranatha (Smith) O WALY WALY

Things are changing at our church for music – we actually had a meeting of the musicians and our priest about how to approach a season!

It was decided that music would be low key for Advent and we would have restrained music and silence after communion.

We will use the Advent Chant for the lighting of the candle.

For the Vigil where I usually play, we will use “To You O Lord I Lift Up My Soul” as a seasonal psalm. Since we usually have instrumental music during communion from a backing I prerecord, we will just let that run and leave it at that.

I now have to find restrained Advent music. In preparation for the meeting I jotted down some Advent songs:

Advent Chant

Like a Candle

A Voice in the Wilderness

Prepare the Way of the Lord (Boniwell)

O Emmanuel (Mangan)

O Come O Come Emmanuel

Emmanuel (Angrisano)

At the Turning Point of Time (MacGregor)

Maranatha ( Smith)

Maranatha, Lord Messiah

Advent Song

Advent Alleluia

Maranatha Come (O’Brien)

Joyful in Hope (Herry) – has an extra verse for Advent.

In this Time of Waiting

Feel free to add suggestions in the comments.

Dyball and Whelan didn’t get to funerals in their talk, but since there was really already far too much for an hour in their presentation, that is understandable.

Let’s see how we go without their guidance:

Starting with CWB II, which I have previously described as a marvellous work of scholarship and a great resource for liturgical advice but a poor hymn book. However, when it comes to funerals they don’t stint:

140 Guidelines on funerals, especially the choice of music, which is sure to upset some people, no football songs being recommended. Funerals seem to me to be only peripherally for the deceased and mostly for the bereaved, and I’m sure pastoral needs can be met while keeping funerals liturgically and symbolically functional.

141 Fare well, we come to send you on your way (text, Michael Rayner Thwaites, FINLANDIA) also 142 Be still, my soul (text, Katharina von Schlegel, trans Jane Borthwick, FINLANDIA)

142 Go Silent Friend (text, John Bell, LONDONDERRY AIR) I heard Bell talk about this song on his DVD – it is a masterly and moving text.

144 I know that my redeemer lives (text, ICEL, WINCHESTER NEW)

145 I know that my redeemer lives (Scott Soper) AOV 2/34 sheet music

146 O Lord, you died that all might live (text, Richard Frederick Littledale, MELITA)

147 Sing with the saints in glory (text, William J. Irons, HYMN TO JOY)

148 There is a place (Bell/Maule) sheet music for children’s funerals if you are made of stern stuff

149 When human voices cannot sing (text Shirley Erena Murray, ST COLUMBA) If it isn’t John Bell it’s Shirley Murray isn’t it. It is also in GA 236 and TIS 682.

150 Come to his/her aid (Song of farewell) (text Dennis C. Smolarski, OLD 100th)

151 O come to meet her/him, saints of God (Song of farewell) (text Delores Dufner, RICHMOND)

152 Saints of God, come to his/her aid (Song of farewell) (text ICEL, music Jennifer O’Brien)

153 Saints of God, come to his/her aid (text ICEL, music Phillip Duffy)

This is chant, so you are on your own, apart from this recent clip from Drew Wilson – many thanks. (By the way if you google funeral songs, you start to get ads for funeral insurance – what a wonderful world we live in.)

154 May flights of angels (text In paridisium trans James Quinn, SONG 1)

155 May saints and angels lead you on (text, ICEL, TALLIS’ CANON)

156 May songs of the angels (Song of the Angels) (Dufford) sheet music

157 May the choirs of angels aka Song of Farewell (Ernest Sands) sheet music

158 a-e Latin funeral chants

This is a nice resource for psalms to use at funerals from United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I think any good setting of Psalm 23 would do.

I have a few other suggestions:

The hand of God shall hold you (Haugen) sheet music I am always touched by this one.

Give thanks for life (Shirley Erina Murray) – pick a setting of your choice.

See, I make all things new (Canedo) sheet music

I will rest in you (ValLimar Jansen, Frank Jansen) sheet music

Deep Peace (Barbara Bridge) sheet music

Saints and beloved of God (Schutte) sheet music

Carry me home (Alstott/Modlin) sheet music

I shall see God (Erica Marshall) sheet music

Into Paradise (Leo Watt)

Eagles wings (Frank Andersen) sheet music

… and I could go on.

If anyone wanted to add suggestions that might help us all for any of the sacraments, feel free to respond in the comments.

Suffice to say that I am grateful to Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan for bending the space-time continuum to fit a conference into a one hour session.

This was the last section of Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan’s talk at the recent APMN conference. Funerals must have been too much, even working quickly, but I suspect in parishes we are all more likely to play at a funeral than an ordination – that is cathedral business and people are paid for that sort of thing.

Nonetheless we are pointed to CWB II 130-133:

130 notes of celebrating an ordination

131 Litany of the Saints you know this from the Easter Vigil, except this is even longer. It is not something I will touch with Band in a Box.

132 O God of all creation (text Bernard Kirkpatrick, THAXTED)

This tune is now best known for it’s appearance in “Bluey”.

133 notes on religious profession

Dyball and Whelan map out their music liturgy for holy orders:

Responsorial psalm

Psalm 116/117 (Heagney) CWB I 375 sheet music – I am lucky enough to have an old second hand copy of Catholic Worship Book I from 1985. maybe you have some in an old box somewhere at church.

Go out to all the world and tell the good news

Entrance: The God of all grace (Manalo) sheet music

Litany of the Saints (Becker) in Gather Australia 552 sheet music

This is the metrical one (Thanks be to God)

Communion: Here I am, Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90, CWB II 518 sheet music

Bread of Angels (Stephan) sheet music

Profession: These alone are enough (Schutte) sheet music

Recessional: Go Out, Go Out (Stephan) sheet music

All the chant music is here if that is what you need.

As I have said several times, the one hour presentation by Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan was a conference on its own. By the time we got here, I think they were up to warp speed.

CWB II 134-139 has suggestions:

134 Short notes on the sacrament and the place of music in the sacrament.

135 As man and woman we were made (Brian Wren, SUSSEX CAROL) sheet music

This is such a joyous tune it must scream WEDDING, because Bell and Maule’s lovely “Blessing the Marriage” uses the same tune.

136 God, who created hearts to love (Text M.D. Ridge, LASST UNS ERFRUEN)

137 God, who blesses new beginnings (text Harry Huxhold and John Newton, HYFRYDOL)

138 May God’s light of joyous blessing (Unknown, HYMN TO JOY)

NB anything that can be HYMN to JOY’d can be HYFRYDOLled. These are good in that most people know the tunes once prompted and can participate.

139 O perfect love (Psalm 128 paraphrased by Bernard Kirkpatrick, O PERFECT LOVE)

They link to these music suggestions from Adelaide, which are likely from Jenny O’Brien and so worth our attention.

For a psalm, they go to one of their favourites, who is new to me, Francesa La Rosa.

Psalm 145 sheet music

How good is the Lord to all, how good is the Lord to all.

Other songs they recommend are:

What a gift to be gathered/At the table of Jesus (text, Haugen/Alonso SIMPLE GIFTS) sheet music

In love we choose to live (Jeanne Cotter) sheet music AOV2/33 – for signing of the register.

May you be blessed (Erica Marshall) sheet music

The talk from Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan continued with Anointing of the Sick. The handout directed us to CWB II 124-129:

124 Useful explanatory summary of the sacrament

125 Blessed be God who heals us (text ICEL, music Jeanne Cotter) sheet music

126 Great God of mercy (text James Quinn, ISTE CONFESSOR) It is also in Together in Song 472.

127 O Christ. the healer, we have come (text Fred Pratt Green, JESU DULCIS MEMORIA)

128 Trust in God, hope in God (text Bernard Kirkpatrick, LARGO – yes Dvorak!)

129 Your hands, O Lord, in days of old (text Edward Hayes Plumptre, MOZART – only maybe by Mozart)

Fortunately, Dyball and Whelan had some better ideas.

They themselves kicked off with a recommended responsorial psalm – Psalm 42/43

Like a Deer (Mason) I haven’t got to Vol 2 & 3 of Psalms for All Times yet but here is the response at least.

Like a deer that longs for running streams,

My soul longs for you, my soul longs for you, my soul longs for you, my God.

The Lord is kind and merciful (Willcock) sheet music or you could pick one of – it feels like -thousands of alternatives.

Restless is the heart (Farrell) sheet music

Bless the Lord, my soul (Berthier) AOV 2/142

NB the link in the handout isn’t correct – it takes you to a Marty Haugen setting. It doesn’t appear to be available as a download from GIA, but I also have it in a collection Songs & Prayers from Taizé.

I heard the voice of Jesus say (text Horatius Bonar KINGSFOLD) sheet music for Tony Alonso’s arrangement.

Be not afraid (Dufford) sheet music (but no-one sings it like that) AOV 1/114, CWB II 653

Shepherd me, O God (Haugen) sheet music AOV 1/33, CWB II 597

Lead Kindly Light (Warner) sheet music Steven C Warner’s adaptation of John Henry Newman’s words, but you wouldn’t know from the cover. Now, you really want to be compared to the Notre Dame Folk Choir don’t you so why not give it a whirl. The refrain of this has umpteen melody lines for the choir – I picked one.

Lead Kindly Light (text John Henry Newman, music Maeve Heaney) The sheet music is available at Willow, despite the suggestion in the handout that it remains unpublished. Pitched very low and may need to be taken to a higher key for many, but her version is sweet cool water on a hot day. I couldn’t get what I wanted in a backing from the preview there, but here are three attempts:

In Every Age (Janet Sullivan Whitaker) sheet music just a delight AOV NG 77

Come to me (Norbert) sheet music AOV 1/37

There are a few very familiar tunes there, but that is fine – participation is enhanced by known tunes as powerful as these.

Apropos of nothing, I would like to propose a new text for KINGSFOLD that might lift some spirits at an anointing.

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
And his name is Wiggly Woo
There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
And all that he can do
Is wiggle all night and wiggle all day
The people around here, they all do say
There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
And his name is Wiggly Woo

 Jack Martin / Billy Scott-coomber

Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan continued their swing through road tested songs for sacraments with songs for penitential rites.

Again, they note the suitable songs from CWB II:

120 Forgive our sins as we forgive Text: Rosamund Herklots Music: BELMONT

121 We turn to you (Mangan) see below sheet music

122 O Father, I know I can count on your mercy (Kathleen Boschetti)

I appear to have accidentally skipped this song when I was doing CWB II. To make up for that here are two backings – the first is probably too noisy and fast:

123 Take from us now Text paraphrased by Bernard Kirkpatrick from Ezekiel 11:14-21, Isaiah 58:1-11, Micah 7:2-7,18-20, Roman 6:16-23) O WALY WALY

Their advice for a responsorial Psalm is:

Fill us with your love, O Lord and we will sing for joy CWB I (Roger Heaney) sheet music

Other songs they suggest:

Bear with one another (Haugen) sheet music I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this gem from Marty Haugen. Be careful the melody splits for a couple of bars in the chorus.

Open My Eyes (Manibusan) AOV 1/166/CWB II 582 sheet music

Touch the earth lightly Text: Shirley Erena Murray Music: Tony Alonso sheet music I have blogged backings of several other settings of this worthy text, but not Alonso’s so here it is.

Be the hands, the heart of God (Friedman/Vogt) sheet music

I received some extra material from Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan about their use of Michael Mangan’s “We Turn to You”:

RECONCILIATION

Michael Mangan’s “We Turn To You” has been used in the Sacrament of Penance at Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak in the following way:

On our Reconciliation Retreat day (which begins with a parent and student workshop in the morning), the girls write a short “Sorry” prayer. Their teachers prepare this with a time of reflection, asking the girls to think about things that they would like to improve in their lives. They choose one main thing that they will aim to improve and write a prayer about it. Once completed these prayers are placed on individual PowerPoint slides with the child’s name. These are then inserted into the hymn “We Turn To You”.

Refrain

Verse 1

Refrain

4-5 Sorry prayers

Refrain

Verse 2

Refrain

4-5 sorry prayers

(etc)

The hymn and “Sorry” prayers are used when the children come forward for individual confession and assist in keeping this time a silent and prayerful one. Parents and family members are invited to sing each time the song appears on the screen. The hymn and quiet music playing in between allows for privacy to be maintained during the time that the children go to individual confession. At Loreto this happens in designated spots around our school chapel.

The next piece in Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan’s presentation related to Eucharist and First Eucharist in particular.

They pointed to CWB II 115-118 which is:

115 Jesus calls us to his table (Jennifer O’Brien)

116 Jesus, you are bread for us also AOV 1/42 sheet music

117 Take and Eat (Maggie Russell) also AOV 2/162 sheet music

118 Given for You (Michael Mangan) also in Setting Hearts on Fire.

They once again turn to Michael Herry’s archive of psalms with their suggestion of Psalm 33:

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord,

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Beyond those in CWB II they recommend:

Come to the Table (John Burland) AOV NG 33 sheet music – a well known winner

Bread Broken, Wine Shared ( Robyn Horner) AOV 2/155 sheet music – a less well known delight

Our Blessing Cup AOV 1/7 (Bob Hurd) sheet music

I would add don’t overlook Paul Mason’s setting of Psalm 115 for this and Frank Andersen’s “This Blessing Cup“. sheet music

Table of Life (Erica Marshall) sheet music (My backing is the two verses in the sample)

These four posts so far cover about half of a presentation that was less than an hour – not kidding.

When the handout got to confirmation, they don’t mention CWB II’s selections this time but it won’t hurt to go through them. My copy of CWB II has an awful lot of penciled in approximate chords here. In its defence, there are quite useful pieces of liturgy revision scattered throughout the first volume of CWB II:

108 Instructions for the Rite of Confirmation

109 This is our faith Text ICEL Music Arthur Hutchings

110 Holy Spirit of Fire (Mangan) A favorite over many years. sheet music

111 Holy Sacred Spirit (Brown) The assembly sings the ostinato refrain with a soloist singing the verses – works very well. Her website to purchase sheet music.

112 The gift of the Holy Spirit (Kathleen T. Boschetti)

113 Gifts of the Spirit (Text Bell/Maule, PERSONENT HODIE)

Dyball and Whelan do however link to Jenny O’Brien’s amazingly comprehensive list of confirmation music suggestions and her psalms for confirmation. (freely available sheet music)

For example:

Psalm 117 (O’Brien)

You will be my witnesses, my witnesses to all the world.

Their own music recommendations that weren’t also in CWB II were:

Spirit, Come Down (Friedman/Vogt) sheet music

Veni Sanctus Spiritus (Berthier) sheet music Can be very moving.

Enter the Journey (Friedman/Vogt) sheet music

May You Walk (Hart) sheet music