Monthly Archives: October 2019

This is the last song to blog from the collection Voices As One Vol 2, because the rest are redundant mass settings. This song by David Ruis is call and response, praise and worship music and is more inventive than … Continue reading →

I’m nearly finished this book and have at last come across a clearly liturgical song for Eucharist by Thomas Lucas. It has the form verse/verse/refrain/verse/refrain/repetitive coda. It is a slow but syncopated song with lots of pushes on the chords … Continue reading →

I really like this solo ballad by David Yackley. I can’t see it performing any liturgical function though. The sheet music can be purchased at WLP where the text is in their sample. The sheet music gives the option of … Continue reading →

Entrance: Come As You Are (Brown) AOV 1/31 Psalm 92 (McKenna) I will praise your name forever, my king and my God. Gifts:   Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90 Communion:  Come to the Table   (Burland) AOV NG 33 … Continue reading →

This is one of the better solo or band songs in Voices As One Vol 2, that will find its uses outside of liturgical celebrations. It is by Darrell Evans. The text is at the Casting Crowns website. The sheet … Continue reading →

The is a P&W song written by a small collective of Johnny MacPowell, Mark D. Lee, Brad Avery, Tai Anderson and David Carr. There aren’t really enough words in the text to justify the number of songwriters, but they are … Continue reading →

This is a very repetitive but catchy song from a committee of Jami Smith, Susanna Bussey Kirksey and Dan Collins. I doesn’t appear to have much liturgical potential. I’m not sure that “wider than the gap you filled” is a … Continue reading →

This is a two person or 2 choir song that is more show tune than church song. The two parts in the verses are call and response, then harmonising, then switching parts and it could not possibly invite any participation … Continue reading →

Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30 Psalm 32 (McKenna) The Lord hears the cry of the poor Gifts:  The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83 Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat  (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651 Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen) Recessional: We … Continue reading →

I was hoping this Michael T. Pierce song based on Psalm 18 would be good because I am not a fan of the song of the same title we use for our patron saints day. It is in 9/8 time … Continue reading →