wlpwlpAudio samples (via Soundcloud or YouTube), if available, are posted under each title. Score samples, if available, can be accessed via the icon with the music notes. Click on the publisher icon or the link with each title to visit the publisher’s webpage for that piece/songbook.
 
 
 

 

ocpwlpGIA, 2022, “There is No Rose” — A modern setting of the familiar medieval text for SAB, keyboard, and c instrument; a sequential melody and a little musical quote of the hymn tune GLORIA make this a delightful Christmas piece in honor of Mary.
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/there-is-no-rose-print-g10684
 

 
 
 
ocpwlpOCP, 2022, “Litany of the Saints” — This litany of the saints is specifically for use at the Easter Vigil mass (or for the rite of baptisms in general), and is crafted in a way which allows the piece to grow and blossom as it continues through its various sections. To aid this, several ancillary solo instrument parts are included – flute, violin, and clarinet – to supplement the keyboard and guitar accompaniments that support the SAB choir. The assembly either echoes the cantor or has only two simple melodies to learn, allowing them to quickly and fully enter into the ritual moment. Reviewed (by Meg Matuska) in the June/July 2023 edition of NPM’s “Pastoral Music” as “…a worthy alternative to the John Becker composition.”
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/90735/litany-of-the-saints
 

 
 
 
ocpwlpOCP, 2022, “Remembering Home” — Two profound songs of exile are paired in this moving anthem: the Latin text of Psalm 137, “Super flumina Babylonis,” which is the Israelites’ lament of their exile in Babylon, and the slavery-era spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. Set in F minor, with poignant dissonances in the accompaniment that mirror the anguish of the lyrics, this will be especially appropriate during any season or service of lament with people who have suffered devastation, displacement, persecution, or oppression. Easily learned, hard to forget. Featured by OCP at the 2023 NPM convention, and an Editor’s Choice at J.W. Pepper.
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/90730/remembering-home
 

 
 
 
ocpwlpGIA, 2022, “Heaven’s Glory Shatters Darkness” — An energetic Christmas piece for unison choir with descant and flute. Vigorous, pulsing rhythms and a brief litany with a congregational response borrowing from “Joy to the World.”
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/heavens-glory-shatters-darkness-print-g10680
 

 
 
 
ocpwlpGIA, 2022, “Easter Entrance Antiphons” — A simple way to begin Eastertide liturgies without the fear of the beginning of mass becoming “top heavy” with music (entrance hymn, sprinkling rite, and gloria). Utilizes the familiar “O Filii et Filiae” Alleluias in a spirited, festive manner.
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/easter-entrance-antiphons-print-g10632