• SLIDES
• LIST of Suggested hymns for Mass & Adoration
• ADORATION Hymns & Scores (Public Domain, Creative Commons, Permission of composer)
AFRICAN AMERICAN SACRED MUSIC
“We’ve Come to Worship You.” Text and Tune: Stephen Key https://youtu.be/vg82je1nSyU Lead Me, Guide Me, 2nd Edition
“Day and Night Praise.” Text and tune by Margaret Pleasant Douroux https://youtu.be/gm2jtpNcXfc African-American Heritage Hymnal
“O King, O Lord, O Love.” Text and tune by Timothy Watson https://youtu.be/Ni9s-nPAqwI African-American Heritage Hymnal, Arr. GIA Publications
Hallelujah, Amen! Text and Tune: Nolan Williams, Jr. https://youtu.be/QRzvJqRA0SI Lead Me, Guide Me, 2nd Edition
“And He Blessed My Soul.” Text and Tune: Anita Watkins-Stevens https://youtu.be/5QccZsgaKu4 African American Church Music Series, GIA Publications
“O Come, Let Us Adore Him.” Text: John Francis Wade; Translator: Frederick Oakeley. Tune: ADESTE FIDELES. Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.), GIA https://youtu.be/7Xg_T4zkjbw
TAIWANESE
“Ban-bin ah (lin toil old)” or “Let All Nations (Praise the Lord).”
Text and Music: Xiangqi Zhang (or Hsiang-chi Chang) and I-to Log. Tune: O-LO. O-lo (“praise”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=prT5beNogy0 – recording in English – Score: bilingual, GIA
VIETNAMESE
My God and My All. Rufino Zaragoza, OFM https://youtu.be/Zqm8WnjMQxM
available in English and bilingual, OCP
DOCUMENTS:
• USCCB: Hymnody at the Service of the Church: An Aid for Evaluating Hymn Lyrics
• Rev. Jan Michael Joncas, S. J. analysis of “Hymnody at the Service of the Church”
• Archdiocese of Boston: Music for First Communion and Confirmation | A Catechetical Guide for Liturgical Celebrations — includes organ/guitar accompaniments, congregation files
NOVA ORGANI HARMONIA (“NOH”) organ accompaniment scores All 2,279 pages are available for free download as PDF files at Corpus Christi Watershed: www.ccwatershed.org/nova
Parish Book of Chant • Second edition
“Only an artist who is profoundly steeped in the sensus Ecclesiae can attempt to perceive and express in melody the truth of the Mystery that is celebrated in the Liturgy.” ~ Pope Saint John Paul II
QUESTIONS? Contact Richard Clark at richard_clark@rcab.org