Audio 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.
OCP, 2024, “See How Good” — An exhortation to holy unity, with texts from Psalm 133 and Pauline epistles, for SAB choir, keyboard and C instrument. As reviewed (by Rex Rund) in the October, 2025 NPM Notebook: “Johnson’s simple, but sublime, setting of this peaceful text . . . is an excellent piece for a Communion procession, with a singable melody for the assembly and profound reflections on our unity in Christ Jesus.”
https://ocp.org/en-us/songs/91235/see-how-good
OCP, 2024, “Christians, Awake!” — This text explores Christian paradox, juxtaposing serene scenes of the nativity with the zealous activity we are all called to as evangelists. For SATB, keyboard, and two C instruments.
https://ocp.org/en-us/songs/91179/christians-awake
OCP, 2024, “Pray and Act” — A children’s choir piece written for Sts. Joachim and Ann School, linking the importance of living a life of both prayer and Christian action in the midst of life’s challenges and struggles.
https://ocp.org/en-us/songs/91194/pray-and-act
OCP, 2024, “Live Your Love Every Day” — A children’s choir piece written for Sts. Joachim and Ann School, detailing some practical ways each one of us can try to better live God’s love in our day to day lives. Reviewed (by Kimberly Wargo) in the June, 2024 NPM Notebook: “Children’s choirs will love singing this lively and syncopated piece…”
https://ocp.org/en-us/songs/91195/live-your-love-every-day
OCP, 2024, “True Presence Now Among Us” — Winner of the 2023 Archdiocese of Detroit Hymn and Song Composition Contest in Support of the National Eucharistic Revival; text based on Pange Lingua Gloriosi with original music in concertato and hymn versions.
https://ocp.org/en-us/songs/91183/true-presence-now-among-us
SLM, 2024, A total of 178 simple settings of daily mass psalms by me with metrical refrains and chanted verses available for purchase or via subscription at Simply Liturgical Music. Score samples available via SLM as well. (A first wave of 72 settings were added in 2019; 9 more added in 2025.) Here is a sample of my setting of Psalm 84, presented at the 2024 NPM Convention SLM Showcase.