Music Leader Thread Part III - Song Lists, Suggestions, and Comments

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Next weekend:

Sunday, January 29, 2012 - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Processional Hymn: #313 All People That on Earth Do Dwell OLD HUNDREDTH
Preparation of the Gifts: #458 Those Who See Light Elze/Osuna
Communion Hymn: #523 Now We Remain Haas
Recessional Hymn: #742 Rejoice, the Lord Is King DARWALL’S 148TH

This is what my music director has:

Processional Hymn: #568 Sing, O Sing Schutte
Preparation of the Gifts: #458 Those Who See Light Elze/Osuna
Communion Hymn: #336 In the Breaking of the Bread B. Hurd
Recessional Hymn: #384 The Spirit Sends Us Forth AZMON
 
Have any of you ever heard of Lori True? We just started using Gather Third Ed. and she has many songs in there that are really beautiful. Just wondered if any of you have used her music.
peace,
Terry
 
hosea said:
Have any of you ever heard of Lori True? We just started using Gather Third Ed. and she has many songs in there that are really beautiful. Just wondered if any of you have used her music.
peace,
Terry
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I saw her name on one song when I did a quick once-over of that hymnal. Haven’t looked in depth at anything as of yet. How do you like Gather Third?? I’ve been debating it for my parish.

Anyone have a good hymn relating to Catholic Schools? Since Jan 29 is the beginning of Catholic Schools Week, I was thinking about doing a song at the Preparation that goes along with the theme for this year.
 
pianomany2k said:
I saw her name on one song when I did a quick once-over of that hymnal. Haven’t looked in depth at anything as of yet. How do you like Gather Third?? I’ve been debating it for my parish.

Anyone have a good hymn relating to Catholic Schools? Since Jan 29 is the beginning of Catholic Schools Week, I was thinking about doing a song at the Preparation that goes along with the theme for this year.
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“Holy Wisdom, Lamp of Learning” is a good choice. It’s to the BEACH SPRING tune, which is the same tune used for “Healing River of the Spirit”.
 
Next weekend:

Sunday, February 5, 2012 - Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Processional Hymn: #547 O God, Beyond All Praising THAXTED
Preparation of the Gifts: #701 Healing River of the Spirit BEACH SPRING
Communion Hymn: #456 We Remember Haugen
Recessional Hymn: #198 Now Thank We All Our God NUN DANKET

This is what my music director has:

Processional Hymn: #197 Praise to the Lord LOBE DEN HERREN
Preparation of the Gifts: #499 Our Hope Is in the Lord Schutte
Communion Hymn: #491 You Are Mine Haas
Recessional Hymn: #548 O Bless the Lord, My Soul ST. THOMAS (WILLIAMS)
 
pianomany2k said:
I saw her name on one song when I did a quick once-over of that hymnal. Haven’t looked in depth at anything as of yet. How do you like Gather Third?? I’ve been debating it for my parish.

Anyone have a good hymn relating to Catholic Schools? Since Jan 29 is the beginning of Catholic Schools Week, I was thinking about doing a song at the Preparation that goes along with the theme for this year.
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We like it so far. Lots of new beautiful songs since ‘comprehensive.’ A couple of our fav’s didn’t make the cut which was dissappointing; Cooney’s ‘Your mercy like rain’ and ‘Up from the earth’ didn’t make it. We really loved those.
But the Lori True songs and new ones by David Haas are really well done. I have been previewing them on the GIA site to see if we want to learn them. We have already introduced ‘Gather in Your Name’ to the parish with great reviews. Very singable and beautiful harmonies.
giamusic.com/product_search.cfm?criteria=lori+true
You can even get some nice intros that are not in the keyboard editions for 1.50. There’s a fairly new one by Cooney called ‘Heart of a Shepherd’ that I really like.
giamusic.com/product_search.cfm?criteria=heart+of+a+shepherd&search_button.x=42&search_button.y=12
Always a joy to learn new stuff.
peace,
H
 
Here are next weekend’s suggestions:

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Processional Hymn: #737 How Firm a Foundation FOUNDATION
Preparation of the Gifts: #490 There Is a Balm in Gilead BALM IN GILEAD
Communion Hymn: #455 Age to Age Vogt
Recessional Hymn: #574 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise ST. DENIO

This is what my music director has:

Processional Hymn: #302 Gather Us In Haugen
Preparation of the Gifts: #391 These Alone are Enough Schutte
Communion Hymn: #455 Age to Age Vogt
Recessional Hymn: #468 Love Divine, All Love’s Excelling HYFRYDOL
 
hosea said:
Have any of you ever heard of Lori True? We just started using Gather Third Ed. and she has many songs in there that are really beautiful. Just wondered if any of you have used her music.
peace,
Terry
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Hi, Terry!

I really like Lori’s setting of the Magnificat. She sang it this summer at the NPM convention, and it was pretty amazing…

Also love her setting of Psalm 25, “I Lift My Soul.”

We were less successful with “One Lord,” her popular Communion song, but it’s not the song’s fault 🙂

Hope all is well!

A
 
Good to see someone else plays that great music. For praise and worship, our contemporay choir loves:

We Fall Down (Chris Tomlin)
You are My King (Billy Foote)
Come to the Water (Matt Maher version)
Christ be Our Light (Servant’s Heart version in 4/4)
You Alone (Sarah Hart)
I Will Rise (Matt Maher)
Breathe (Marie Barnett)
Draw Me Close (Kelly Carpenter)
Refiner’s Fire (Brian Doerksen)

Otherwise, we stay in the Glory & Praise and “contemporize” it.

Mass of Joy & Hope (We don’t like it, but we will do it until we find another contempo mass that is better. Perhaps we will make some changes to the Mass of Remembrance)
 
Rome is Vespers–ing it up! For the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, they had Vespers. Here is the program. I love how the psalms, canticles, hymns, et cetera were sung alternately between the choir, using polyphony, and the congregation, using Gregorian chant. Next, they ought to chant the readings in Latin. 🙂

Brick by brick.

What do y’all think? If only this could be a regular occurrence at parish churches.
 
JGMendes4049 said:
Rome is Vespers–ing it up! For the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, they had Vespers. Here is the program. I love how the psalms, canticles, hymns, et cetera were sung alternately between the choir, using polyphony, and the congregation, using Gregorian chant. Next, they ought to chant the readings in Latin. 🙂

Brick by brick.

What do y’all think? If only this could be a regular occurrence at parish churches.
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How lovely. Westminster Cathedral in London sing Vespers every day - normally this is fully choral with all parts sung by the choir - but on Tuesday and Saturday it is sung congregationally (and antiphonly with a cantor as above) and it is such a joy to be able to lift our voices up in unison in sung prayer.

I agree with you that Vespers should be sung more at parish churches, and I really don’t understand why this isn’t the case - it’s not difficult or challenging at all, and it makes a fitting prelude to mass. I love any form of sung prayer - once a month in London the Lutheran church sings choral Vespers, and of course, Choral Evensong is still practiced widely in the Church of England and is a real joy to attend ocassionally, especially as they have great SATB choirs and it includes a wonderful anthem.
 
JGMendes4049 said:
Rome is Vespers–ing it up! For the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, they had Vespers. Here is the program. I love how the psalms, canticles, hymns, et cetera were sung alternately between the choir, using polyphony, and the congregation, using Gregorian chant. Next, they ought to chant the readings in Latin. 🙂

Brick by brick.

What do y’all think? If only this could be a regular occurrence at parish churches.
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I think this would be great! In most parishes, they probably wouldn’t be able to do it every day just because of the fact that most people in choirs (especially volunteer ones) have other jobs and probably wouldn’t be able to get their parishes on time for vespers every day. But it would be nice if it could be done at least once a week or start off doing it once a month. I can see it happening every day if the choir was paid, but most parishes can’t afford that.
 
liturgyluver said:
How lovely. Westminster Cathedral in London sing Vespers every day - normally this is fully choral with all parts sung by the choir - but on Tuesday and Saturday it is sung congregationally (and antiphonly with a cantor as above) and it is such a joy to be able to lift our voices up in unison in sung prayer.
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This is making me yearn to go back to England again!!! I used to go to the Cathedral every once in a while when I was attending university for a semester, and remember when they had Vespers with the choir. It was such a wonderful experience. I’ve gone back to the UK two more times since then and have tried to at least make a mass or vespers at the Cathedral.
 
Here is my list:

Glory and Praise to Our God
Precious Lord
I Am the Bread of Life
Lord of All Hopefullness
Blest Be the Lord

If I had an organ (or pianist) I would have opted for
How Firm a Foundation
O God Our Help in Ages Past

These seem good for this Sunday.
 
Mathias64 said:
Good to see someone else plays that great music. For praise and worship, our contemporay choir loves:

We Fall Down (Chris Tomlin)
You are My King (Billy Foote)
Come to the Water (Matt Maher version)
Christ be Our Light (Servant’s Heart version in 4/4)
You Alone (Sarah Hart)
I Will Rise (Matt Maher)
Breathe (Marie Barnett)
Draw Me Close (Kelly Carpenter)
Refiner’s Fire (Brian Doerksen)

Otherwise, we stay in the Glory & Praise and “contemporize” it.

Mass of Joy & Hope (We don’t like it, but we will do it until we find another contempo mass that is better. Perhaps we will make some changes to the Mass of Remembrance)
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Hi, Mathias -

Great list!! We LOVE (and have recorded) quite a few of those songs. Others I haven’t heard and will definitely check out. Thank you!

I wrote a Mass setting that really works for our community. It follows a lot of the chant melody, but I put it in a mode/style that seems to be working for us 🙂 We’re probably headed to revised Mass of Creation for Lent…

Grateful for your post. I hope to check in here more regularly!

Best,
A
 
For this weekend:

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Processional Hymn: #751 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus HYFRYDOL
Preparation of the Gifts: #567 Come, Christians, Join to Sing MADRID
Communion Hymn: #418 How Great Thou Art Hine
Recessional Hymn: #376 Celtic Alleluia: Sending Forth Walker/O’Carroll

This is what my music director has:

Processional Hymn: #170 Alleluia! Alleluia! HYMN TO JOY
Preparation of the Gifts: #601 Alleluia No. 1 Fishel
Communion Hymn: #418 How Great Thou Art Hine
Recessional Hymn: #376 Celtic Alleluia: Sending Forth Walker/O’Carroll

At this last Sunday of Ordinary Time before Lent, I love to do all the “Alleluia-oriented” hymns, as does my music director. It’s nice to belt out these hymns before the Alleluia rests until the Easter Vigil. I find it very fitting that my music director picked “Alleluia! Alleluia!” as the processional hymn for this Sunday. It’s the recessional hymn for all the Easter Sunday Masses. It’ll be nice to hear it return on Easter.

I can’t believe that we are entering the Lenten season already!

This is what I suggest for Ash Wednesday:

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - Ash Wednesday - Year B

Processional Hymn: #128 Again We Keep This Solemn Fast ERHALT UNS, HERR
Hymns for the Distribution of the Ashes: #124 Attende Domine ATTENDE DOMINE & #125 Turn Our Hearts Bridge
Preparation of the Gifts: #121 Beyond the Days Manalo
Communion Hymn: #679 Hosea Weston Priory/Norbet
Recessional Hymn: #122 Led by the Spirit KINGSFOLD
 
Next weekend:

Sunday, February 26, 2012 - First Sunday of Lent - Year B

Processional Hymn: #122 Led by the Spirit KINGSFOLD
Preparation of the Gifts: #121 Beyond the Days Manalo
Communion Hymn: #125 Turn Our Hearts Bridge
Recessional Hymn: #133 Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days ST. FLAVIAN
 
This is what my parish is doing on Ash Wednesday:

Processional Hymn: #115 Leave the Past in Ashes Consiglio
Distribution of the Ashes: #117 Ashes Conry
Preparation of the Gifts: #121 Beyond the Days Manalo
Communion Hymn: #438 O God, You Search Me Farrell
Recessional Hymn: #130 In These Days of Lenten Journey Manalo

This is what is going on on the First Sunday of Lent:

Processional Hymn: Psalm 51 “Be Merciful O Lord, for We Have Sinned” Alstott
Preparation of the Gifts: #122 Led by the Spirit KINGSFOLD
Communion Hymn: #121 Beyond the Days Manalo
Recessional Hymn: #672 Change Our Hearts Cooney

My music director is doing some new things this year which includes Psalm 51 being sung every Sunday of Lent as the processional chant as everyone kneels instead of stands. He also is using a “clapper” as a way to signify the start of Mass instead of the usual church bells. I think these changes are nice because once we hit Holy Week and especially Easter Sunday, it’ll be nice to revamp the church bells and sing triumphant processional hymns.
 
My own parish - rather scandellously in my opinion given the importance of tomorrow - is not planning to have any music tomorrow so I am going elsewhere where the music will be:

Intoit: Miserere ominum
Opening hymn: Attende (sung to chant)
Mass setting:Palestrina, Missa Emademus in Melia
Psalm 51 during ashing: Miserere Mei, Allegri
and hymn O kind Creator bow mine ear
Offertory hymn: Jesu grant me this I pray
Communion hymns: Lord Jesus think on me and Maker of Earth to thee alone
Recessional: O for a heart to praise my God
 
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