… I’ve done
This is a lovely song from Jennifer O’Brien for Easter that is a good find in Catholic Worship Book II.
The tune has a slightly irregular structure with only seven bars in the refrain. The melody goes off in interesting directions in the eight bar verse.
The only source I can find is CWB II, so for those who have that I made a backing. I guessed the chords. which wasn’t hard but really should have been included.
It would be uncharitable to suggest that blogging the songs for Easter in Catholic Worship Book II is a Lenten penance… so I won’t say that.
360 Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
361 Jesus Lives, Jesus Lives Today
“Now Is Eternal Life” fits the pattern of a c20 copyright text set to an older traditional tune. The text is by George Wallace Briggs (1875-1959) and here the setting is HAREWOOD by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76), although it is usually set to other tunes. (eg CHRISTCHURCH)
The text is here, although CWB II cuts the second verse shown there and with good reason.
I got the chords from Together in Song to make my backing because they certainly weren’t in CWB II.
Christopher Willcock translated Didier Rimuad’s Easter text and set it to music.
The text is in the preview at OCP, where you can purchase the sheet music. Listen to the preview to hear the challenging yet marvellous music. I think the verse needs a cantor and really a choir for the counterpoint would be best.
Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”.
Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30
Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83
Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Recessional: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
CWB II continues its run of traditional hymnody for Easter with:
357 Good Shepherd, You Know Us
… and this song set to LLANFAIR with a text by James Quinn.
The text is here (thanks, Mary).
This Easter song is by Keith David Pearson based on a text by John of Damascus and set to AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM.
The text is here, and it is in Together In Song (391) as well as CWB II.
This is a joyful Easter song from CWB II with a tune for the refrain and two separate verse tunes.
The text is by John Edward Bowers and it is set to SALVA FESTES DIES by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
I can’t find the lyrics on the net and so for those with CWB II or Worship 3rd ed or the other hymnals listed in Hymnary…
As usual I had to find the chords elsewhere for my BIAB backing.
Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”.
Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90
Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Communion: Tree of Life (Thompson) AOV NG 138
Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24
In the Easter songs in CWB II I’ve done:
352 By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord (Outstanding)
353 Christ is Alive, With Joy We Sing (More Easter VULPIUS action)
This text is by Michael Weisse and translated by Catherine Winkworth. It is set to ORIENTIS PARTIBUS.
It is a French melody that I had some fun with after getting the chords from Together In Song:
The text is found in various iterations but this is the one in CWB II.
Here is the same tune used for a song about a donkey – I couldn’t resist – the Alleluia is replaced with “Hey sir donkey hey!”
CWB II gives some of these much longer titles but I have still blogged them already.
348 Easter Alleluia
349 O Sons and Daughters
350 Alleluia No.1
This is another Easter tune. It set to LASST UNS ERFREUEN, this time with a text by Hereford Brooke George. He had a busy life it seems and not much was related to hymn writing. The text is at Hymnary.
