Entrance: Sing Out Earth and Sky (Haugen) AOV 2/32
Psalm 8 (McKenna)
O Lord our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth.
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33
Our Blessing Cup (Mason)
Thanksgiving: Trinity Song (Andersen)
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
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We had lots of “thee,” “thy,” and “thou” in our music this week…
Gathering: O God, Almighty Father (trans. Udulutsch; GOTT VATER SEI GEPRIESEN)
Mass Parts w/When We Eat: Mass of Christ the Savior (Schutte)
Psalm 8: How Glorious Is Your Name (Cooney)
Gifts: Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! (Heber; NICAEA)
Communion: How Great Thou Art (Hine)
Closing: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (trans. Walworth; GROSSER GOTT)
St Agatha’s, Clayfield, QLD on Sunday 2016-05-22 at 7am
Gathering Song: This Day God Gives Me (Bunessan) GA 536
Psalm: read
Preparation of the Gifts: How Can I Keep from Singing (Robert Lowry) GA 454
Communion: One Bread One Body (John Foley) GA 193
Thanksgiving: Firmly I believe, and truly (Drake’s Broughton) GA 382 (as quiet music)
Recessional: God of Day and God of Darkness (Beach Spring) GA 541
Where do these names like Bunessan, Beach Spring come from?
Those are the names of the hymn tunes, i.e. the music without the words. Generally, they aren’t written at the same time as the text and usually aren’t written by the same person who wrote the text. For the 2 examples you gave, the Beach Spring music has been paired with God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen), As a Fire is Meant for Burning (Duck), Healing River of the Spirit (Duck), Epiphany Carol (O’Brien), and more. Bunessan has be paired with This Day God Gives Me (Quinn), Baptized in Water (Saward), Morning Has Broken (Farjeon), Praise and Thanksgiving (Bayly), and more.
Even though we almost always associate certain texts with certain tunes, there are lots of others that could be used. For example, God of Day and God of Darkness could be paired with Nettleton, Holy Manna, Pleading Savior, Hyfrydol, In Babilone, Abbot’s Leigh, or even Hymn to Joy. (Sometimes when I’m bored I’ll find a hymn and sing the first verse with different tunes just to see what it would sound like.)
To answer the actual question you asked, the really old ones were generally named by the hymnal compiler but newer ones are generally named by the composer of the tune. They usually have something to do with the composer, like the place they lived, or with the song they were first paired with. Wikipedia’s hymn tune article has a wealth of information about hymn tunes that I never knew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_tune
Thank you, Ryan!