Minor Housekeeping

This blog is now ancient and covers thousands of songs. Unfortunately, many of the links in old posts are dead, mainly due to corporate restructures and the evanescent nature of the internet. There used to be lyrics at Spirit and Song, now you have to search for the sample music at OCP. WLP is now owned by GIA so you have to search there now.

Obviously, lyrics are available through your church’s One Licence account and they often show up in church bulletins as well, so it is rare that they aren’t somewhere. Having physical copies of umpteen hymnals helps as well, so scouring for second hand ones at AbeBooks can be useful.

YouTube clips disappear but a quick search usually finds another.

I enjoy using Band in a Box as a musical sketch pad to make backings faithful to the sheet music that can be used to learn unfamiliar songs. On the other hand I haven’t the time to go back and fix all the the broken links for the last twelve years of the blog, so I’ll leave the further searching to you.

I am quixotically continuing to focus on Australian songs at the moment, but I suppose I’ll look at new hymns from OCP and GIA as they turn up.

I am now gainfully working part time in Tasmania but seem to have less spare time than ever. When I am not on call for the practice or visiting adult children on the north island of Australia (ie the mainland) I play at mass for 10-20 diehards for the vigil mass and life goes on.