I’m labelling my songs here “Collab project” to make them easy for me to find and to look towards collaboration amongst parish song writers. Also, since I wrote many of these before I knew anything about liturgical music, they are lessons about what not to do, and may be adaptable by others into something usable in other contexts.
I am trying to remember what was going on here. I remember there was a special celebration of some sort that was to happen at church but got cancelled. I had the thought that the Creed could be set to Affirmation by Savage Garden, a local Logan band that became world famous. I got permission to do that for one performance only, but it never happened due to the cancellation.
Sometime after that I was writing my misguided mass and while not using their tune did try to make it a dance number. I note that I started hand written corrections after the text was made worse, but funnily enough it looks like a gave up at consubstantial, a word rarely used in dance music.
I made a demo, but the lesson may be that the creed is hard to set, especially now, and probably isn’t best as a techno track.
The music group obviously toned things down several notches in rehearsal.
Here is Savage Garden: