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Iona Abbey Music
Book
The Iona Community
isbn: 1901557731
Songbook $49.95
These 50 songs of challenge, change and encouragement are offered as a companion to the liturgies of the Iona Abbey Worship Book, which is used by an increasing number of congregations a long way from the island of Iona.
The songs recommended in the Worship Book as being relevant to the themes and theology of its liturgies are not always well known in other parts of the world. The Iona Abbey Music Book aims to fill this gap and provide access to the musical aspect of services in the Abbey.
Some of the songs included here have been published before in other collections, especially those by the Wild Goose Resource Group, but many are previously unpublished or currently not available elsewhere.
Spiral bound
Cloth for the
Cradle (tape)
Sung by the Wild Goose Worship Group
ISBN: 0947988629
Audio cassette · 18 tracks
A beautiful tape with arrangements of hymns from central Africa as well as compositions by John Bell and Graham Maule.
Includes:
Come All You People
Shorter songs for worship sung by the Wild Goose Resource Group : Songbook
John L Bell
isbn 0947988688
Songbook $21.50
CD available
Forty-seven chants, responses, choruses, introits and shorter songs are featured in the songbook. The CD contains twenty-one of the songs and demonstrates imaginative ways to use the material.
Sources of inspiration for these songs are Southern Africa, the Russian Orthodox Church, Charismatic assemblies in Central and Southern America and ancient Scottish church traditions.
Includes:
- Gathering praise
- Acclamation
- The Word of God
- Concern
- Gratitude
- Leaving
- A Communion setting
Enemy of Apathy
isbn 0947988270
Songbook 144pp $29.95
Sixty-two songs and chants for Lent, Eastertide and Pentecost.
Includes:
- Travelling the road to freedom
- Be still and know
- Jesus Christ is waiting
- Lord of the morning
- Kyrie/Sanctus & Benedictus/Agnus Dei (Kentigern setting)
Freedom is Coming
Songs of protest and praise from
South Africa : Songbook
Anders Nyberg (Compiler/Ed)
isbn 0947988491
Songbook 40 pp $32.95
Tape available
Fifteen powerful a cappella songs from the South African church:
- Freedom is coming
- Asikhatali
- Gabi
- Ipharadisi
- Singabahambayo
- Siph’amandla
- Akanamandla
- Bamthatha
- Vula, Botha
- Shumayela
- Nkosi, Nkosi
- Siyahamba
- Haleluya! Pelo Tsa Rona
- Thuma Mina
- We shall not give up the fight
Customer Comment
Children here in Australia love this volume. I use the tape as an introduction
and find it much easier for them to learn the songs this way. They need to "pick
up" the particular sound of African singing and although your tape is recorded
by a Swedish choir they interpret the African sound authentically, I feel. I am
about to teach them to a group of young students from Asia studying English in
Australia.
God Never Sleeps
The Cathedral Singers, Chicago, with guest conductor John L Bell : songsheets
John L Bell/Graham Maule
isbn: 0941050823
Songsheets Pack of 12
CD & tape available
This recording consists of twelve pieces — four choral anthems, two World Church songs and six arrangements of published songs from the musical mine of the Wild Goose Resource Group.
- Will you come and follow me
- Be still and know
- Before the world began
- Sing a new song
- Today I awake
- Lord, you have been our refuge
- If you believe
- Freedom is coming
- Darkness is gone
- Many waters
- A touching place
- Glory to God in the highest
Heaven Shall Not
Wait (book)
Sung by the Wild Goose Resource
Group : Songbook
John L Bell /Graham Maule
isbn 1901557804
Songbook 144 pp $24.95
CD and tape available
Sixty-two songs of Creation, the Incarnation and the life of Jesus.
Includes:
Shake up the morning
Sections:
- God, caring and creating
- God, coming among us
- Jesus, one of us
- Chants and responses
I Will Not Sing
Alone (CD)
Wild Goose Collective & Macappella
Ceilidh Band
ISBN: 1901557898
CD
I Will Not Sing Alone is a deliberately eclectic collection of words and music from different ages fused in contemporary arrangements.
There are ancient texts and modern texts, simple and sophisticated. There are choral anthems, folk tunes and contemporary syncopated melodies. The songs include exclamations of praise, meditative reflections on the love of God, and laments for the loss of a child and for countries at war.
The people who make the music are an even odder mixture. There are three cathedral musicians, several folk singers, some members of our previous Wild Goose Worship Group, a trainee Catholic priest, members of a ceilidh band, a descendant of a 14th century bishop, a Malayalam speaker, a native Swede, a Blue Peter badge winner – representing both genders, five nations, seven denominations and a variety of hairstylists and coutouriers.
Perhaps this is the only way to offer songs of faith which are intended for everybody. This is not a high octane choral album or a selection of psuedo-celtic escapist ditties, but songs of engagement with life and with God, all grounded in the passion and pain of Christian love.
The Wild Goose Collective comprises members and associates of the Wild Goose Resource Group, former musicians of lona Abbey and ‘discerning friends of our common purpose’. They coagulate here for the first time to record this collection.
The Macappella Ceilidh Band is based in Glasgow and is in constant demand for events and ceilidhs throughout Scotland. It has close connections with both the lona Community and Gorbals Parish Church in Glasgow.
Song List
- The Lord is my light - Wild Goose Collective
- How can I keep from singing? - Macappella
- The treasure - Macappella
- Were I the perfect child - Macappella
- I will give what I have - Wild Goose Collective
- I will sing a song of love - Wild Goose Collective
- He is the Way - Wild Goose Collective
- Jesus Christ here among us - Wild Goose Collective
- A cradling song - Wild Goose Collective
- In this darkness - Wild Goose Collective
- If the war goes on - Macappella
- I heard the voice of Jesus say - Macappella
- Hey my love - Wild Goose Collective
- I am the Vine - Wild Goose Collective
- O Jesus, sweet the thought of you - Wild Goose Collective
- Mothering God - Wild Goose Collective
- The mind of God - Wild Goose Collective
I Saw a Stranger (CD)
Twenty songs from the Carmina Gaedelica
Oran
isbn: 1901557812
CD
The twenty original songs on this album are based on the Carmina Gaedelica, the ancient Scottish prayers and blessings collected and translated by Alexander Carmichael at the end of the 19th century which capture the essence of Celtic Christianity.
With titles like `The Healers of healers`, `The voice of thunder` and `The journey blessing`, the lyrics evoke the old Gaelic spirituality which saw God as manifest in all aspects of life, including the natural environment.
The songs are by Pat Livingstone and Donald Wetherick, members of the group Oran, both of whom have held the post of Abbey Musician at Iona Abbey.
Innkeepers and Light Sleepers
Seventeen songs for Christmas : Songbook
John L Bell
isbn 0947988475
Songbook 64 pp $19.50
CD & tape available
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Iona Abbey Worship
from Easter Week Audio cassette
isbn 0947988858
Audio cassette 24 tracks
Recorded live on Iona, and in the Abbey, this cassette charts the course of Easter Week through worship, music, pilgrimage and prayer. Worship includes: Iona Community songs and prayers, the pilgrimage and Easter services.
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Love and Anger
Songs of lively faith and social justice sung by the Wild Goose Worship
Group : Songbook
John L Bell/Graham Maule
isbn 094798898X
Songbook: 80 pp $27.95
CD & tape available
Love and Anger draws on: the biblical songs of justice, World Church songs of protest and praise, and songs of experience from late twentieth-century Britain.
- Munezero
- The love of God comes close
- Amen, Amen, it shall be so!
- Khudaya rahem kar
- Almighty God l Unzima
- Poor folk won’t always be forgotten
- Goodness is stronger than evil
- I shall praise you, O God
- Don’t tell me of a faith that fears
- Inspired by love and anger
- Sing out my soul
- Jyothi dho Prabhu
- We will not take
- God bless to us our bread
- The family
- How can we stand together?
- God to enfold you
- Over my head.
Love From Below
John L Bell / Graham Maule
isbn 0947988343
Songbook $27.50
CD & tape available
Sixty-two songs of discipleship and the Church’s sacraments and seasons.
Includes:
- A touching place
- Listen Lord
- Shout for joy
- Come Lord and be our guest
- Blessed are you poor
- Kyrie/Sanctus and Benedictus/Agnus Dei (Ninian setting)
Many and Great
Sung by the Wild Goose Resource Group : Songbook
John L Bell (ed/arr)
isbn 0947988408
Songbook $28.95
CD & tape available
Twenty-five beautiful songs from the World Church with an emphasis on Africa.
Includes:
- Halle, halle, halle
- Amensi-aku-dumisa
- Let the world in concert sing
- He came down
Songbook 72 pp
One Is the Body
John L. Bell
isbn 1901557359
Songbook $39.95
CD & tape available
The identity of Christians is intimately tied up with what they sing. Hymns and songs affect our understanding of the width or narrowness of the Gospel, whether faith is couched in archaic language or reflects contemporary culture and whether the church is essentially monochrome or mosaic.
The identity of the Body of Christ is thrown into new relief when we realise that the presumed complexion of the Church is no longer white and affluent, but black and poor.
This has compelled the Wild Goose Resource Group, an associate body of the lona Community, to ensure that in its work with church music and musicians as broad a panoply of material as possible is represented.
One Is the Body, therefore, encompasses songs from as diverse places as Hawaii and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while also representing the home-grown fruit produced in and around Glasgow.
These songs are primarily for congregational use, for it is to the congregation which God directs the commandment, 'Sing me a new song.'
Songs included in One Is the Body:
- Come and let us worship God (Uganda)
- Lord, who may enter your house?/Ps.15
- Praise God for this holy ground
- Bless, O my soul, the Lord your God/Ps.103
- Blest be God/Ps.149 (Pakistan)
- Heaven on earth
- I bow my knee in prayer
- I owe my Lord a morning song
- Faithful, faithful is our God (Kamana o'I'o - Hawaii)
- Here you are among us (Tu estas presente - Brazil)
- Be still, be silent (Thula - Swaziland)
- Chitra's tune (Nepal)
- This is the day of rest
- Women and men as God intended
- God it was
- Gifts of the Spirit
- To be a soldier
- There is a line of women
- We belong to God
- While the earth remains (Korea)
- Because the Saviour prayed
- God, you made us all unique
- Maker and Mover
- God's Spirit is here
- We rejoice to be God's chosen
- Keep me, Lord/Ps.16
- I will always bless the Lord
- Do not be vexed
- Create within me a clean heart/Ps.51
- Great God and Lord of the earth/Ps.94 (El Salvador)
- Know that God is good (Mungu ni mwema)/Ps.100
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- In deep distress
- Listen now for the Gospel (Yakanaka Vhangeri Zimbabwe)
- I will arise
- One is the body
- Love one another
- Love is the touch
- Ageless God of boundless wonder
- All the wonder that surrounds us
- You are the God of new beginnings
- In concrete, brick and living stone
- Sisters and brothers, with one voice
- Take this moment
- I'll praise eternal God (Je lourai l'Éternel - France)
- We will walk with God (Sizohamba - Swaziland)
- Now that evening falls
- Now that day is done
- Journey prayers
- Your will be done
- Now go in peace (Caribbean)
Psalms of
Patience, Protest & Praise
John L Bell
isbn 0947988564
Songbook 65 pp $19.95
CD & tape available
Twenty-four songs from the Psalms, paraphrased and arranged by John Bell. The songs have attractive, memorable tunes, and sound good a cappella. The language is natural and faithful to scripture, restoring the potency that older paraphrases of the Psalms have lost today.
Rare Species (tape)
A Wild Goose Worship Group Sampler Audio cassette
Wild Goose Worship Group
isbn: 1901557251
Audio cassette
The Wild Goose Worship Group’s pioneering approach to the renewal of public worship and song, with its global vision and concern for social justice, is widely admired and imitated. Their songs are used across the world by congregations of all denominations, and are frequently broadcast on radio and television.
Spanning 13 years of recording and 15 previous releases, this new sampler is an ideal introduction to the group’s work for those who want to gain a quick overview of their repertoire. From wee songs to world church songs, from folk melodies to contemporary hymn tunes, the full diversity and range of Wild Goose Worship Group material is represented here.
Tracks:
- Clap Your Hands, All You Nations
- God, You Are My God Alone
- Gabi Gabi
- Come Now, O Prince Of Peace
- I Am for You
- Before the World Began
- Funny Kind of Night
- Justice in the Womb
- When God Almighty Came to Earth
- Will You Come and Follow Me
- Amen Amen It Shall Be So
- Mayenziwe
- Take O Take Me As I Am
- Travelling the Road to Freedom
- Stand Firm
- Heaven Shall Not Wait
- We Will Lay Our Burden Down
- Holy Forever
- Sent By The Lord
- A Touching Place
- We Will Not Take
- Aaronic Blessing
Sent by the Lord
Sung by the Wild Goose Resource Group : Songbook
John L Bell (ed/arr)
isbn 0947988440
Songbook 80 pp $28.95
CD & tape available
Another 25 World Church songs, with an emphasis on Central and South America.
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Mary
John L Bell
isbn 1579990207
Songbook 48pp $34.95
CD & tape available
A unique cycle of choral songs for church and concert use, scored for soloist and voices with organ, string and flute accompaniment.
Includes
- The Annunciation
- The Nativity
- The Presentation
- The Rejection
- The Cross
- The Resurrection
- The Assumption
Take This Moment (octavos)
The Cathedral Singers
John L. Bell
ISBN: 1901557472
Songbook
- Te Ensalzare, Senor
- Silence, My Soul
- Love One Another
- Hymm for Night Prayer
- Come an Let Us Worship God
- Nunc Dimittis
- O Give Thanks to the Lord
- Oh Lord My God
- I owe My Lord a Morning Song
- I Bow My Knee In Prayer
- Take This Moment
- In Deep Distress
- Why Did You Ignore Me?
- Journey Prayers
- There Is A Balm
- While Earth Remains
- We rejoice To Be God's Chosen
The Courage to Say
No
John L Bell/Graham Maule
isbn 0947988785
Songbook 96 pp $22.95
CD & tape available
Tracing the sometimes sure, sometimes faltering steps of Jesus and his followers through the entire season of Lent, to Easter Day and then beyond, these songs allow us to reflect on their progress, enter their experience and ultimately to make their confusion, doubt, joy and liberation our own. Many are four-part harmony, which will be satisfying for music groups or choirs to sing, as well as being accessible to congregations.
Includes:
- Have mercy upon me, O God
- Love which understands
- Travelling the road to freedom
- Lay down your head
- Sing, my soul
- Behold the Holy Lamb of God
- When the Son of God was dying
- When finest aspirations fail
- Thank you for the night
- Marantha!
- Jesus is risen
- Alleluia
- Akanamandla
- The Lord of all
- Christ has risen
- Easter evening
- Tom’s song
- You hear the lambs a-cryin’
- What wondrous love is this
- When Jesus Christ worked here on earth
- When our master Jesus went away
- Holy forever
The Last Journey
The Cathedral Singers, Chicago, with guest conductor John L Bell : Octavos
John L Bell/Graham Maule
ISBN: 0947988955
Pack of 15 songsheets
Seventeen songs for times of grieving arranged for choirs. They offer new texts to traditional folk and contemporary melodies, as well as featuring several timeless African American spirituals, the settings of which are for unaccompanied solo and soprano-alto-tenor-bass voices. The remaining songs are arranged for voice, with instrumental accompaniment (flute, oboe, cello, piano or organ).
The fully illustrated hardback reflections book (The Last Journey: reflections for the time of grieving) contains the texts of the songs along with scripture passages and prayers.
Includes
- Christ you wept
- How long, O Lord?
- I cry to God
- Who is there to understand?
- Let your restless hearts be still
- the Lamb
- Steal away
- The last journey
- Since we are summoned
- Go, silent friend
- Lord, our God, receive your servant
- Agnus Dei
- For all the saints who’ve shown your love
- In Zion
- There is a place
- Aaronic blessing
- Nobody knows.
The Singing Thing
John L. Bell
isbn: 1901557286
Book 160pp
The first of two books addressing
the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of congregational singing. Unapologetically anecdotal, it
deals not with musical theories but with
the reasons why people sing and how best to enable them to do so.
This highly accessible analysis by John L. Bell, an expert on congregational song, offers ten persuasive answers to the question ‘Why do we sing?’ Each is explored with a wealth of illustration and practical insight born of 20 years’ experience in this field.
John L. Bell is a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and a member of the Wild Goose Resource & Worship Groups, whose purpose is the creative renewal of public worship and song.
Reader review :
This is a wonderful exposition of a "bottom up" philosophy of
singing - great stuff. How powerful singing together can be for people, how
often we are damaged by teachers' thoughtless remarks, and how those wounds can
be healed.
Rev. Jean Darling
There Is One Among
Us
Wild Goose Worship Group
isbn 1901557103
Songbook 96pp $25.95
CD & tape available
The follow up to the bestselling songbook Come All You People offers 30 previously unpublished songs of similar variety which have been sung in prisons, on pilgrimages, at open air festivals, by cathedral choirs, and teenage and in-house music groups. They are short songs, some from present day Scotland, some from the World Church. They help people to participate and move in worship in a way that conventional hymns cannot and can be used as a tool to help create innovative styles of worship. The book includes hints on using the material and an appendix of readings and prayers for use with the songs.
The CD/audio cassette contains a selection of songs from the book:
Side One
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When Grief is Raw
John L Bell/Graham Maule
isbn 0947988 91 2
Songbook 25 songs $31.95
When a loved one dies there is a need to express deep gratitude for their life and celebrate their time on earth. This book of congregational songs from the Wild Goose Resource Group helps all those who have experienced profound loss at either a personal or communal level.
Twenty-five songs with straightforward arrangements, either four-part harmony or with simple piano accompaniment.
- Who is there to understand?
- How long, O Lord?
- We cannot measure how you heal
- I cry to God
- Word of the Father
- A woman’s care
- God was there
- Let your restless hearts be still
- Sing, my soul
- Be still and know that I am God
- Since we are summoned
- Christ, you wept
- God give us life
- A touching place
- Calm in the storm
- The last journey
- Go, silent friend
- ‘He is not here,’ the angel said
- For all the saints
- Stay with us now
- A cradling song
- There is a place
- What shall we pray?
- As if you were not there
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Listen, Lord.
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