This is a very repetitive but catchy song from a committee of Jami Smith, Susanna Bussey Kirksey and Dan Collins. I doesn’t appear to have much liturgical potential. I’m not sure that “wider than the gap you filled” is a helpful text.
The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at musicnotes.
This was more enjoyable than usual to make a BIAB backing,
This is a two person or 2 choir song that is more show tune than church song.
The two parts in the verses are call and response, then harmonising, then switching parts and it could not possibly invite any participation from an assembly.
It is by Paul A. Tate and Paul L. Berrell and because of the latter is wiped from WLP.
Sheetmusicplus still sell the music, where the text is in their sample.
I did the best I could with two melody lines on BIAB.
Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30
Psalm 32 (McKenna)
The Lord hears the cry of the poor
Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651
Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60
I was hoping this Michael T. Pierce song based on Psalm 18 would be good because I am not a fan of the song of the same title we use for our patron saints day.
It is in 9/8 time and with a gospel styling that raises the bar. It is probably best fudged to 3/4. The verses go a bit high and vary a little in their tune, but they are meant for a cantor.
I don’t think it will work for our assembly, which is a pity. It would be a good choir piece.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP where the text is in their sample.
BIAB struggles with 9/8 timing.
I think I’ll push through and finish my survey of Voices As One Volume 2, blogging all the songs I haven’t already covered already from other collections.
This is a countrified slow P&W song by Billy James Foote and it appears a popular song.
It has the form verse/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus. The text is here. I can’t see any liturgical uses.
The sheet music is available to purchase at various sites on the internet including musicnotes. There is a full orchestral arrangement at jwpepper.
It reminds of a slower version of John Prine’s “Paradise”. My backing is all country:
This song inspired at least in part by St Theresa’s prayer is a lovely ballad that would suit a solo artist.
It was written by Michael J Poirier and although they note in Voices as One that it is licensed through WLP, it is not available for purchase there. I can’t find the lyrics nor downloadable sheet music anywhere, so for those with this book here is a backing.
This collection has a lot of songs whose title starts with “you”, which I suppose means they are songs talking to God.
Dennis Jernigan wrote this catchy slow P&W song. The verse and chorus have the same chord progression so once you’ve sung two verses and choruses you can have two groups sing the verse and refrain at the same time.
The text is here and a commentary on the song is available here. the sheet music can be purchased at praisecharts and is available for download by WLP subscribers.
This is a rather more singable song of praise than usual for this collection. It is by Paul A Tate and is call and response in both verse and chorus with the assembly doing more work in the refrain and the cantor in the verse. Having said that, if you don’t mind a bit of repetition the assembly could sing it all. It would bring it down a couple of semitones to avoid the long held D at the end of the verse.
Being a choral master, Tate gives extra harmony lines and parts, but it’s fine as a nonperformance piece in a church setting.
The sheet music can be purchased at WLP where the text is their sample.
Entrance: Lift Up Up Your Hearts (O’Connor) AOV 1/156
Psalm 120 (McKenna)
Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164
Thanksgiving: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
This is another song from Voices As One Vol 2 that sounds like private prayer and I can’t see a liturgical use. It is by Jack Parker and David Crowther.
The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at praisecharts.
My backing has banjo and harmonica just for fun.
