Church Music

This is Frank Andersen‘s “Trinity Song”, but the first line rules in this hymnal. Father Frank is a beloved Australian composer of songs for the Mass.

The sheet music for this song can be purchased in the Eagle’s Wings coll...

This is the venerable hymn text by Frederick William Faber here set to SAWSTON. When I blogged it for CWB I, I thought it was an idiosyncratic choice, but here we have John de Luca making the same choice, so it was a local preference I suppose.

I don’t lik...

This Eucharistic hymn survived to CWB II as “Draw Near and Take” with the same setting of GUSTATE. It is John Mason Neale’s translation of the C7 hymn from the <...

This is a typical Christopher Willcock setting, this time of Psalm 26 (27). The refrain is singable, if too high, but the cantor doing the verses has odd notes and time changes to contend with.

The sheet music can be purchased at Willow. I already lo...

I’ve never covered this Christmas carol before, I suppose we have plenty of others. In the form presented here the words are kind of gnarly to sing.

It is a C16 French Carol with a surprisingly recent text by George Radcliffe Woodward (1848-1934). Interestly, Hym...