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Part Songs and Choral Music
She Flies On
Gordon Light's song of the Spirit arranged for choir with flute.
SATB and solo with piano and flute
Companions in the Way
Written for an arts and worship conference, this is a song at once playful, tender and dancing.
SATB with piano and bass
Go with Peace to the World
A collaboration with Diane J. Strickland, this is a going-out song.
SATB
Mary Laid Her Baby Down
Gordon Light's poignant song about Mary's gift of letting go, in a choral arrangement with hand-bells.
SATB with piano and handbells, optional solo / children's choir
Upon this Rock
This blues/gospel song expresses both the struggles and the promise of waging peace. See below for lead sheet.
SATB with piano



Songs and Hymns
Feuilles-O (Kyrie)
Please use this Kyrie set to a Haitian tune as we pray with our brothers and sisters in Haiti. The original song was about a mother weeping over her sick child. The original is in Creole.
   
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Riding on a Donkey
A rolicking, prophetic, street-level view of the Palm Sunday parade. The melody is based on the Scottish folk tune Highland Laddie.
Leader and congregation with piano
And There was Evening
The words of Genesis 1 combine with a refrain and improvised instrumental music, dramatizing the story of Creation. See below for the instrumental parts.
Leader and SATB (refrain)
We Have Seen a Glory Shining
A hymn about Jesus the servant.
Words with melody
All the Earth Resounds with Song
A hymn about music.
Words with melody
The Body is One
A playful paraphrase of St. Paul's description of life in Christian community.
Unison vocal with piano
Folly of the Cross
A paraphrase from St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthian church. How God turns our wisdom upside down.
Unison vocal with piano
Zacchaeus was a Tax Man
A Quebecois "chanson à répondre" tells the story of the crooked little man from Luke's gospel.
Call/response with piano
Upon this Rock
This blues/gospel song expresses both the struggles and the promise of waging peace. See above for SATB with piano.
Lead sheet



Choral music for advanced choirs
Il est né, le divin enfant
A bilingual arrangement of the old French carol with congregation/audience participation.
SATB



Instrumental Parts
And There was Evening
The words of Genesis 1 combine with a refrain and improvised instrumental music, dramatizing the story of Creation. See above for the refrain.
Flute, alto sax, trumpet in Bb, trombone, violin, cello
Holy, Holy, Holy (NICEA)
This is a slow pop ballad arrangement of NICEA with countermelodies for Alto Saxophone and Bb Trumpet.
Piano, alto sax, trumpet in Bb
Praise to the Lord the Almighty (LOBE DEN HERREN)
This is an arrangement with a celtic lilt.

Piano


Piano, trumpet in Bb, Trombone, soprano recorder / violin, alto recorder





Songbooks
With Many Voices

Now in its second printing, With Many Voices presents 24 songs for congregation drawn from the world church. Features a number of songs by Canadian writers and composers, as well as from Korea, Africa, South America and the Caribbean. An excellent introduction to using world song in worship.

With Many Voices

Contact Andrew for purchasing information. See the Recordings page for audio samples from the With Many Voices Companion CD.