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DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DIDNTSEETHATCOMING.mp3"][/audio]This falls somewhere between regal and rustic— something that would be at home in a cathedral or a Sacred Harp sing. It is an unusual hymn tune: the melody slides from an E minor/pentatonic into a G minor/pentatonic scale in the second phrase. The harmonies, too, sneak off halfway through, sprint in all directions, then slip back home in the last two measures. But for all its darting about, the song is still surprisingly singable— both the melody and the inner voices.
It first appeared in print with Isaac Watts’ “Your Glory, Lord, Is Great” (#41 In Melody and Songs“).
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write your own lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please let me know how you’ve used it.
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DIX (For the Beauty of the Earth) – instrumental introduction
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/dix_psalm_67.mp3
A simple orchestral introduction to the hymn tune DIX, adaptable to any four-part ensemble. DIX is most often used with the texts “For the Beauty of the Earth” and “As with Gladness Men of Old.” (This is a different arrangement from the Just Add People product for the same tune. Find that piano arrangement here.)
Four-part instrumental arrangement, with parts for instruments in C, Bb, Eb, and F.
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DOUBLE WIDE
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I wrote this tune for a text by Herman Stuempfle and a few months later I came across a second text by the same author to fit this tune. The tune has a mysterious, intimate, jazzy feel, but is still very much singable by a congregation. For all you text writers, the tune’s meter is 6.6.8.6.6.6.
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Eternal Family
$0.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/eternal_family.mp3"][/audio]My understanding of God and faith has been profoundly affected by the book Worship, Community & the Triune God of Grace by James B. Torrance. I try to pack as much of his vision-expanding Trinitarian theology as I can in the four verses of this song.
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Ever-Tender Shepherd
http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/ever-tender_shepherd-4.mp3
“Ever-Tender Shepherd” is a musical “collect prayer”–a prayer which petitions God based on God’s attributes. In this case, attributes of Jesus are connected to the needs of the world. We ask Christ, the Shepherd, to gather scattered refugees, for example. This seemed a good way to address the needs of the world without taking sides or naming issues so specifically that the song would be obsolete by the time it was used. I’m especially fond of the third verse. But who am I to play favorites?
This hymn is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
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Everlasting to Everlasting
Download leadsheets for all the songs in the cantata here, or find an individual psalm below:
Psalm 113: From the Rising of the Sun
Psalm 114: Tremble Before the Lord
Psalm 115: For the Glory of Your Name
Psalm 116: Be at Rest
Psalm 117: All You Nations
Psalm 118: Everlasting to Everlasting -
Faith, First and Last
Paul introduces and summarizes the subject of the book of Romans in chapter 1 verses 16 and 17. “Faith, First and Last” stays close to his words to allow for a sung affirmation. It’s included in the collection Singing the New Testament.
This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
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Faithful Stewards
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This children’s song is based on 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 (“servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries”). It instills the idea that we are not only called to be stewards of money but of all the gifts God has given us.
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FEAST OF REJECTION
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/as_in_that_upper_room.mp3
I wrote this tune for Timothy Dudley-Smith’s Maundy Thursday hymn, “As In that Upper Room You Left Your Seat.” The meter is 10.10.10.10, with a repeat of the final line. You’ll notice there are no time signatures. I want people to sing the melody with a strong sense of phrasing rather than slavishly reading meter changes. Just sing it like chant, with a quarter note pulse.
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.
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Feed Us, Lord
Price range: $0.00 through $25.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/feed_us_lord-cos_choir.mp3"][/audio]This simple, reflective communion song focuses on the way Jesus feeds our hearts at the table. The congregational version of the song includes a piano part and has the option of three keys with modulations: C, D and F. Though your congregation will pick up the tune in no time, you may want to consider introducing it with the arrangement for SATB Choir and Piano.
PowerPoint slides for congregational singing are available from Digital Songs & Hymns.