Funny things happen when you tilt at windmills. Having made the ludicrous decision to get the permissions I should have asked for in the first place to use other people music, I seem to have given myself months of tidying up to do.
But I’ve also been pointed to some other resources on the net by the people I’m corresponding with. The secretary of the Monks of Weston Priory didn’t tell me to take everything down, which was sweet of him and he also mentioned their new album, “We Desire You” and thought I might like it.
You can buy the physical CD for $15 and download the sheet music for free here. You can also hear samples at the site but to get the full effect of all the interludes just buy the album. I downloaded the album for $10 from CD Baby (links at their site). It is simple, charming and reflective with the voice accompanied by guitar and flute.
Like a lot of folk styled tunes, you look at the chord progression and it is the same sort of thing as rock music and praise and worship music. While I like the reflective guitar sound they use, the songs also would stand up in other contexts. “We Desire You” is a setting of Ps 63 that sounds P&W to me, but the rest of the album probably wouldn’t work in that style.
Refrain
We desire You, O You who desire us.
Come with the gift of Your love.
1. God our God, we long for You,
For life, for bread, and for truth.
Even our bodies ache for Your touch.
Come with the gift of Your love.
2. We would gaze on Your holy place,
To behold You in power and might!
Yet You are the Gift who wanders with us,
Your love the Fire in the night.
3. Your love is richer than life itself,
Our longing You touch with Your peace.
Our lips will sing a song of praise.
Our hearts still search for Your face.
4. Your mem’ry, O God, fills each night;
You come like the wings of the dawn.
We trust in You with all we are;
Your desire holds us fast.
5. Blessed are You, O outpouring Love,
Through Jesus Your desire made flesh,
In Your Spirit, the Water of Life,
Our God forever more.
© The Benedictine Foundation of the State of Vermont, Weston Priory, Weston, VT, 2011.
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Nice – I like their style of giving some content away and making the full version very accessible at a reasonable price. I’m convinced that it’s the best way to combat piracy.
I’ve got an enormous library of hymn-words in PowerPoint files, and since I started making the public-domain ones available for download, I’ve been fascinated to see what people are searching (in the Google sense of the word!) for. I haven’t been brave enough to try making copyright materials available – I know just what sort of headache you are facing there. I’ll be fascinated to see who gives you permission to leave things up and who doesn’t.