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
Entrance: Glory in the Cross (Schutte)
Psalm 129 (Mason)
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Gifts: Oh God, Why Are You Silent (Haugen)
Communion: Merciful God – Communion (Alonso)
Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24
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: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Recessional: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
Entrance: Glory in the Cross (Schutte)
Psalm 129 (Mason)
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Gifts: Oh God, Why Are You Silent (Haugen)
Communion: Merciful God – Communion (Alonso)
Recessional: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114
These early Easters certainly let Lent sneak up on you.
Ash Wednesday is his week. One thing I’ve noticed in this small town I live in, is that many events assume that you either retired and can attend at any time, or you are working and too busy to be bothered. I can’t get to any Ash Wednesday service locally, as there is one at 9am, including the school, and one half an hours drive away at 5.30pm. In the suburbs there was usually a 6.30am Ashes for the workers. I only work three days a week but it includes Wednesdays and let’s just say there is a shortage of GPs in rural Tasmania so on the days I work I am there before 8am and rarely way before 6pm, so neither service locally is feasible. I should be grateful there is a Catholic church here at all, but there is a little irony if my Lenten penance is to not attend Ash Wednesday services.
It also means I hadn’t thought much about music for Lent. It will be low key and have lots of repetition over the weeks leading up to Easter.
For Gifts over Lent we will do “Oh God, Why are You Silent.” We will do Mason’s “With the Lord There is Mercy” as a seasonal psalm. I will insert Alonso’s “Merciful God” in its various guises and use “Glory in the Cross” as well.
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: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
This is Paul Mason’s setting for Psalm 72 for the Second Sunday in Advent Year A, as found in his book Psalms For All Time Vol 2.
The psalm is also used in hope in a mass in time of war.
The refrain is, “Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever.” The verses are Psalm 72: 2, 7-8, 12-13, 17.
