What "Alleluia" is this

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Hello,

I have a relative who loves a particular Alleluia, but I don’t know what type it is.

It’s quite fast paced and is something like:

Alle Alle Alle loo-oo-ya, alle alle alle loo-oo-ya, alle alle alle yoo-oo-ya, Alleuia, Alleuia.

It’s done with a piano and sounds like the type of music you’d hear at some small town revival.

Anyway, does anyone know which Alleluia it is (how to find it).

And, BTW, I didn’t say I liked it, but I do want to find it.
 
It sounds like the Halle, Halle, Halle…carribean sounding?
 
uwwhitewater84 said:
It sounds like the Halle, Halle, Halle…carribean sounding?
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If you’re referring to the one by Richard Ho Lung - no, it is NOT that one.

The way it’s played around here isn’t with a carribean sound, more like a pentecostal or baptist church revival type sound.
 
I think I know which one you’re talking about. I am not fond of it at all. I think my major problems with it are, at my church, it is done so half heartedly. It is accompanied here too by a clapping. We are upstate New Yorkers… clapping is not our thing. Perhaps if we were Germans or southerners…

Well, sorry I have no help for you but, thanks for the sounding board, I needed to get that off my chest. :o I’ll try to ask around though.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
Is it this one? youtube.com/watch?v=sFBMBkmGPXo

It doesn’t have a composer but maybe someone can identify it if they hear it.
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Thanks for that. The tune is right, but the “alleluia” is repeated twice.

OK, so maybe someone who doesn’t get me writing it can listen to it from the link and I can get some specific info.

That version has tons of extra instruments. The times I’ve heard it around here, it only has the piano.
 
The alleluia in that video is the “Halle, Halle, Halle”. We sing it at my church. I do think it comes from the carribean.
 
It’s almost certainly Halle Halle. It’s also Carribean. I don’t know that he wrote the original melody but it’s Marty Haugen who’s responsible for the current arrangements. He popularized it with his Agape: the Stories and the Feast “concert”. It’s pretty much a mass setting but I first saw it as a concert back in 1994 or there-abouts.

I’m pretty sure that the popularity of Marty Haugen’s version is why Richard Ho Lung’s version ever got noticed.

Here’s Marty Haugen’s version as Marty envisioned it: amazon.com/Halle/dp/B000QVOKU4
 
its hard to imagine a song less apropriate for Catholic worship…
 
Try googling “John Bell”, “Wild Goose Publications” and “Iona Community” and see whether that finds you the right one.

If it is the Iona Community one, it was never intended for use at Mass as a Gospel acclamation - the group is a non-denominational body with a focus on Celtic spirituality, and John Bell’s music is collected and arranged with an aim to providing community song that can be quickly learned (sometimes using already-familiar tunes) by people from all over.
 
I’m with iamscifimike on this one. I can’t stand that particular version. To me it just seems like more of this new age, feel-good garbage that continues to infest the Church.
 
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I think I know which one you’re talking about. I am not fond of it at all. I think my major problems with it are, at my church, it is done so half heartedly. It is accompanied here too by a clapping. We are upstate New Yorkers… clapping is not our thing. Perhaps if we were Germans or southerners…

Well, sorry I have no help for you but, thanks for the sounding board, I needed to get that off my chest. :o I’ll try to ask around though.
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Germans?!? German Catholics!?! Clapping?!? In church!?!?
😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 …oh, my, I need to get my breath!
 
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