Like a Deer

I am working through Paul Mason’s Psalms For All Time Vol 2, which can be purchased at Liturgical Song.

This is his setting of Psalm 42 for the Easter Vigil and Anointing of the Sick. The refrain used here is, “Like a deer that longs for running streams, my soul longs for you, my soul longs for you, my soul longs for you, my God.” The verses are Psalm 42: 3, 5bcd, Psalm 43: 3, 4.

Mason has an SATB arrangement for the refrain with a descant for the final chorus. I don’t usually look at keyboard accompaniments much because I strum a guitar and BIAB uses the chords too, but even I can tell that there he is going above and beyond in the sheet music and I would love to hear it played properly. Very few of these psalms have sample music at Liturgical Song or on Mason’s Youtube page unfortunately.

My backing is much more basic and all BIAB strings.

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