I am in a small run of “peace” songs in Gather Australia and after skipping the songs I’ve already blogged from other sources I am up to this survivor from the sixties by Lucien Deiss. I have his book Visions of Liturgy and Music for a New Century in which he states “permanent reform of the Church necessitates a permanent reform of the liturgy.” He died in 2007.
The text is here and is based on Psalm 131. the sheet music is available at WLP.
The best I could do with its irregular time was to make it mostly 3/4 and my backing doesn’t really give singable intervals. The snippet at WLP gives an indication of what the sheet music doesn’t convey.
Instrumental:
As a prayer:
Solo + guitar:
Children defeated by an organ: