God Be In Our Heads

The choir at Lakewood UCC, where I’m the music director, did this last year and they did a terrific job. I changed four measures of the final score so I couldn’t use the tape of their live performance for the demo of the sheet music or I would have. They did that good of a job. The Cantai synth voices will have to do for the purposes of demon.

The text I cobbled together from various sources: Salisbury Book of Hours, 1514 (ref: Mark 12:30 and Psalm 40:8), various ancient Irish sources (Carmina Gadelica, Bridgid of Gael, other traditional Gaelic verses) plus original text of my own.

This is a very easy choral piece: just two parts, women and men…not even any chords. The range of the parts is narrow which keeps the sound good.

Sheet music for God Be in Our Heads available at
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1594283/Product.aspx or
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/god-be-in-our-heads-22830185.html

Author: Hilton Kean Jones

Composer and performer, retired college music professor, lyricist.

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