Monthly Archives: March 2023

This is the late Colin Smith‘s stately setting of the Breastplate of St Patrick. The text he uses is adapted by Hugh Sharpe. The sheet music is available to purchase at Willow, along with sample pages and a snippet to … Continue reading →

How wonderful, another song from David Macgregor, a Uniting Church minister from Brisbane, who I really should have a good look at. He has lots of songs at his website. This prayer for peace can be purchased at Willow, where … Continue reading →

Going through songs I have yet to cover in the Willow Digital archive (As One Voice), I found I have never looked at Peter Grant‘s take on the Beatitudes. The sheet music can be purchased in three convenient iterations at … Continue reading →

Continuing with some more songs from Willow (As One Voice), that are available for digital download, is another of Patricia Smith‘s songs. It is a gentle chant of reflection with many applications. The sheet music can be purchased at Willow. … Continue reading →

This is a newish song from Leo Watt available at Willow. The preview is just a chorus so if there are verses you will have to buy the sheet music to find them. Open your eyes, open your head and … Continue reading →

This is another baptismal song from the the digital store at Willow. It is by the esteemed team of James McAuley and Richard Connolly. The text is in the sample sheet music available at Willow where you can purchase the … Continue reading →

Erica Marshall has written masses and other liturgically useful pieces over the years and this little acclamation is for an SATB choir to sing during baptisms. The sheet music can be purchased at Willow, where you can see the sample … Continue reading →

With the era of bound hymnals seemingly behind us, the task of singing a new song relies on finding things online and attending workshops like the upcoming APMN conference. Unless you are from St Patrick’s in the Broken Bay diocese, … Continue reading →

Patricia Smith is a very talented and prolific Willow composer from the era after the publication of the As One Voice collections, so she relies on us using digital downloads and looking for her new music. This is a song … Continue reading →

This is a sung “Acknowledgement of Aboriginal People and Country”. There is a guide to these acknowledgements here, which is recommended reading. This sung version by John Coleman lifts the sentiment out of the mundane, as music so often does. … Continue reading →