The Earth is Full of the Goodness of the Lord

I am continuing to look at Paul Mason’s Psalms For All Time Vol 2, with his setting of Psalm 33 for the Easter Vigil.

Refrain: The Earth is full of the goodness of the Lord; the goodness, the goodness of the Lord.

(Unless you are an alto because you get some extra goodness)

The verses are Psalm 33: 4-5,6-7,12-13, 20,22 here, or buy his book.

This tune is a pip. He has an SATB arrangement for the refrain in the which the altos have some fun, and a verse tune that has no right to work but somehow does. How does Gmaj7, Gm9, D(add9), C, C#dim, D(add9), Dmaj9/C#, D6/B, Bbmaj9, C6, D(add9), Gm, G#dim, Asus, A7 strike you as a chord progression to lead a melody full of accidentals back to common sense in the refrain. Wild.

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