Monthly Archives: June 2020

The music is a little curtailed with restricted attendance but we are still doing the Mass parts from the Mass of St Francis with spoken a Psalm and Gospel Acclamation. There is no collection so no music for Gifts. Entrance: … Continue reading →

This is a communion song new to me by Gregory Norbet. It has unfortunate leaps up to a held D at times that will require dropping the key from F to D for groaners like myself – I know the … Continue reading →

This is James E. Moore Jr’s fine setting of this oft set Psalm. There are enough variations and complications in the verses to leave them to a cantor as suggested. It’s not one I’ve heard around here but it appears … Continue reading →

I actually have blogged this one before here, but I made a new backing just for fun.

If you are intending to buy a huge second hand loose leaf collection of songs you may find missing pages. Here I discovered 481 to 483 are missing. The only one of those I haven’t blogged is this one with … Continue reading →

This is folk styled tune by Sebastian Temple for the RCIA or for use for Gifts, as a recessional or commissioning. The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music. The clips below show it is versatile enough to be … Continue reading →

This is a lovely song by Paul Inwood that would work well as a recessional. It has a singable refrain and somewhat trickier verses that he recommends for a choir or a cantor. Despite the key change in the verses … Continue reading →

Chris W has a concern he would like to share about music in the mass: Geoff, I hope I’m asking this question in a respectful way: were the increased dangers from singing considered? Perhaps Donna from Cranbrook might also answer? … Continue reading →

I played at Mass today with a total of 20 in the assembly randomly chosen from applicants. We are on the way back to normal with extremely low levels of Covid 19 infection in Australia and hopefully we can follow … Continue reading →