Monthly Archives: July 2011

This is the Taize Kyrie No1 and is quite fast.  Listen to it here. My backing is to learn the tune and then I suggest you sing it unaccompanied. Kyrie, Kyrie, Eleison © Ateliers Et Presses De Taizé

This song by Monica O’Brien and Gina Ogilvie is not in any collection but is available at the AOV site for $5 or so to download.  It was used at the AOV conference last year and is a song exhorting … Continue reading →

This song is by Kevin Bates.  It’s the first song in the collection and I’ve never heard of it. It didn’t make the Bishop’s list, probably because it speaks as God to us in a familiar, colloquial way and has … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking again at the original AOV collections published by Willow.  I assumed that since I’ve been regularly playing at mass since the last millenium I’d pretty much know them all, but as it happens I don’t.  I’m not … Continue reading →

I attended the inaugural general meeting of this organisation in Sydney on the 25th of June at Mary McKillop Place in North Sydney.  The election bits were painless – all nominees elected and the two workshops interesting. There were a lot … Continue reading →

We start using this mass this weekend. The Gloria gets a little high so I’ve made a backing 2 semitones lower.  I’ve also made it less abrasive but still with melody line fairly obvious to assist singing along if you … Continue reading →

The MP3s I’ve put up are for the purpose of learning the songs and were done quickly on Band in a Box.  As in, too fast for any reflection on their suitability for anything other than learning a song.  The version … Continue reading →