Monthly Archives: August 2011

A traditional South African tune beloved of choirs everywhere.  My daughter wandered in when I was making the backing because she recognised it from her choir days.  This choir is pretty good even if the clip misses the beginning. There … Continue reading →

This is, obviously, a Eucharist song from Christopher Walker.  We’ve never used it, probably because of the 4/4, 3/8, 2/4, 4/4 time shifting going on. You can get an idea of how this works from the snippet at AOV. Once this … Continue reading →

Gregory Norbet’s gentle song has to cope with a recitation in the middle.  I’m never sure how this sort of thing is meant to be timed so good luck. It is a beautiful thought from the story of Ruth and would … Continue reading →

This is Bob Hurd’s song, but I gather the verses that are usually sung are by Michael Downey. You can hear the original version here. The quality of the recording is not great but the noble simplicity of this version … Continue reading →

This is another very popular choice of liturgists over the years at our church. It is by Dan Schutte and in 6/4 time so is hard to do on BIAB. It gets around a certain singsongyness by having a third … Continue reading →

I gather the Sacred Harp music that Marty Haugen used for this song was meant to be sung unaccompanied. (… or did he take the words and write new music?) This may explain my difficulty in constructing a backing that doesn’t … Continue reading →

The Beatitudes we do most in our parish is the one by Mike Balhoff and Darryl Ducote from a band called The Dameans way back in the 60s & 70s. Way before my time in the Catholic Church but it appears … Continue reading →

This is the Beatitudes that every Australian Catholic knows.  It was written in the 60s by Peter Kearney.  It isn’t in As One Voice, so I thought I’d drop it in after David Haas’s setting in the previous post. The text … Continue reading →

This setting of the Beatitudes has never been used in our church to my knowledge.  Being Australian we know the Kearney one and we also do the Balhoff/Ducotte setting, so that might be enough. David Hass has written a very … Continue reading →

This is a song from the nineteenth century to the tune Kingsfold with words by Horatius Bonar.  I have a distorted memory that every second song in the old blue hymnal in the Presbyterian church I grew up in was … Continue reading →