Having interrupted the numerical order to get Advent suggestions out there, it’s back to No 14 in AOV NG.
“Blessed Be Your Name” by Matt and Beth Redman uses Ps78 so if you can find a use for this as a responsorial Psalm I can guarantee a noisy liturgy of the word. Even I’ve heard of Matt Redman – I’ve run across O Sacred King, Let Everything That Has Breath and Let Your Glory Fall in the Source volume 2 and he gets >1000000 hits on YouTube so he is well enough known.
The sheet music is available to buy and download at various sites on the internet including musicnotes. Worship Together has lyrics and chords.
This is another praise and worship slow build to freak out song but a good one for all that and really could be used as a psalm in a liturgy I suppose.
Verse 1
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
Prechorus
Every blessing You pour out
I’ll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Chorus
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Verse 2
Blessed be Your name
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s ‘all as it should be’
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
Prechorus
Chorus
Bridge
You give and take away!
You give and take away!
My heart will choose to say,
“Lord, blessed be Your name!”
Rpt
Chorus
© Thankyou Music 2002
Good afternoon,
I have been reading your blog on Church music, and I have enjoyed a lot.
I am responsible of a webpage in Spanish devoted to liturgical music, where I present scores written in Lilypond, and the midi files the own lilypond software produces.
I have heard your midi files, and have a question for you, if you are so kind to answer me.
Do you produce your midi files automatically? Or you play them? Any specific software?
Thank you very much in advance. God bless you!
G’Day Javier
The backings here are MP3 files rendered from Band in a Box files that I make myself. They can also be made into MIDI files.
I’ve never heard of Lilypond, I must look into it.
cheers
Geoffrey
I use Lilypond: it’s a free and produces really good-looking output. In its native form, however, it’s more of a programming language (which suits my background!) than a what-you-see-is-what-you-get Windows-friendly programming, though. There is a very steep learning curve not helped by a help system that isn’t very helpful! However, once you set up a template for your music, it becomes a simple matter of little more than typing in the notes and lyrics.
A useful place to start for church music:
http://www.geoffhorton.com/hymns/library.html
It hasn’t been update in years and uses an old version of Lilypond which isn’t always compatible with the current version, but nevertheless I found it very useful when I first started playing with Lilypond.
I find that the midi files produced are fairly basic, and can be improved by converting to mp3s on solmire.com which has much better sound fonts than I have on my computer.
Thank you very much for your answer.
I suppose Band in a Box is not available for Linux.
Lilypond is a great program to edit music scores. I highly recommend you.
Thanks again.
Javier
My daughter who understands things like Linux tells me WINE should run it and certainly many versions of BIAB are on their database as compatible.
Geoff