[musictlk] Music for Lent & Easter

Sun Mar 6 10:37:34 UTC 2011

Sheri,
    Thank you for your detailed message. BTW, not too much information. I 
will take a look at them!
    I don't have copyright information, but the songs I mentioned were

Morning Has Broken is in the public domain, although most people think that 
Cat Stevens wrote it. I have attached the liner notes from my album about 
this song, as well as the chord chart as I play it.

One Power by Daniel Nahmod from the album of the same name, copyright circa 
2008. This song is available on YouTube in both the album version and a live 
acoustic guitar version.

Water by Daniel Nahmod from the album of the same name, circa 2009. I think 
this might be available on YouTube, too, but not completely sure.

If I Were Brave by Jana Stanfield. Not sure of the copyright, either, but 
pretty recent

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen" <swellsj at bgsu.edu>
To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Music for Lent & Easter

Hi, Marion,

These sound like some  nice choices.  Would you
mind including  copyright and author info so we could track some of these 
down?

I love Lent.  It has some of my favorite music:

etter descriptions of all of these are on our band director's blog

TurtleBaitBlog.com

but here are the things we are doing immediately
for Lent that I like (and can remember right
now!) (He says he's getting his Lent list up in a few days.)

"Sing of the Lord's goodness" - Ernest Sands;
©1981 Ernest Sands; OCP Publications.

I like  this alot ... and it's in 5/4 time and I
get to play penny whistle! smile.
It sounds like Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" mixed
with Everything's Alright from Jesus Christ
Superstar: not hard to play if you can get your
percussionist to  count to five.  It's also a good Easter song.

We're also doing:

which has a really pretty up the neck guitar bit
that is more fun to play on the classical guitar,
but they make me do it on the electric so we can
hit the fuzz pedal on the loud parts. Smile..

And:

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus" - Helen H. Lemmel (Public Domain)

We do this a capela except sometimes we play the
bass line on the bass (because we have nobody
singing that line right now)... It's really
pretty; we only do the refrain though.

and Dust and Ashes by David Haas (which has a
pretty echo.  We do it on harp (just my little
celtic job; nobody here has a big harp) and play the bass line.

Probably soon, we'll do Down in the River to
Pray: also a capela.  Our congregation loves this
and sings like crazy.  It's lovely and they learn
it fast and it's simple and powerful.

In Lent, we do lots of Taize music and have a
couple favorites.  Our congregation likes them: your mileage may vary!

And we sing the Lord's Prayer and are switching
now from a jazz style one to a homemmade  a
capela one sung call and response with a little
light drum to keep it on track.  Not sure how
that will go, but if you're curious I can let you
know.  I feel a little uncertain about it.  It
crashed at last band practice, but we'll give it
another try next week.  At our other service
(where they don't like drums) we will chant the
Lord's prayer for Lent.  This is also lots of fun on occasion.

Sorry,that's probably more info than you
wanted.  I enjoy talking about song choices and instrumentation!
Peace,
Sheri W-J

At 03:29 PM 3/5/2011, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>     I would like to hear from any music directors about music they are 
> planning for Lent, Palm Sunday, and Easter. I would especially like to 
> share contemporary and/or New Thought music that might fit the themes. One 
> song I know for sure we will do for Easter Sunday is Morning Has Broken. 
> Our guitarist/drummer is also a pretty fair pianist and does a nearly 
> impeccable impersonation of Rick Wakeman's accompaniment on Cat Stevens 
> recording!
>     I also know we will do One Power at some time during Lent. This is an 
> awesome piece of music for those involved in a Unity, Unitarian, Science 
> of Mind, or other metaphysical community. If there are others on this list 
> with such an interest, I would like to network more and share both my 
> original songs and the covers we do at new Life Unity in Tampa! Tomorrow 
> we are opening with my Calypso version of Count Your Blessings and I am 
> doing If I Were Brave as my contemplative offering.
>
>Peace!
>Marion Gwizdala
>
>
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