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Which comes first ... the words or the melody? Should I be concerned about rhyming?
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looking for a song for my stepfathers funeral
I grew up in the Catholic Church as a singer/musician in the 70’s - had experiences from Gregorian chant to the Jesuits - and still make music for liturgies today.
I cantor for our church
Catholic Composer and musician. I like listening to good contemporary Catholic music.
I'm a Catholic priest and musician. I thought that perhaps some of the members and readers here might be interested in my recordings - all for the glory of God.
for our choir
I like to sing at Mass. My church has removd the hymnals from the pews as part of covid19 precautions. So, I phoograph the hymns before the mass and follow the singing with the photos from my iPhone.
I am needing to find some music for a friends funeral
Am a Catholic, a chorister and a composer, I would love to learn and also share my music.
To listen to music and to share music.
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Love Catholic songs and wish to know and seek God more in songs and music
I select the music for worship in my church
I want to listen to songs from the Psalms that I remember singing.
I am a musician and composer of sacred music here to share my compositions with others, and to connect with other musicians, composers and music lovers.
Enjoy the music and the hymns to Mary
Love music
Love Catholic songs and wish to know and seek God more in songs and music
I have many songs in my mind from my years in a Singapore Convent school ( CHIJ, Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus) and I would like to revisit them and see more of their lyrics.
I would like to share with other music writers.
I train a church choir for the last few years and I’m a cantor as well. I love listening to hymns and religious songs from all denominations, though I am a Roman Catholic. I really want to find new and easy to sing hymns for our congregation. I’m especially interested in new liturgical hymns for Mass.
I love songs
Download songs
Okay there is a choir in which am a member; your songs might be helpful in our duty of sanctifying our souls by singing.
Sharing a new series of collaborations with Catholic singers and musicians.
To listen to the music
to have access to contemporary hymns and music
Just as our bodies need food and water to sustain its self; our spirit requires the same. It is very HARD/DIFFICULT to find dedicated Catholic music stations. I do listen to a lot of Christian music, but if I could find and support a Catholic station, I do so lovingly as I try to promote the Church Jesus created.
Would like to use more liturgical music composed by Catholic musicians.
I want to learn how to play keyboard in the Catholic Church for the celebration of the Holy Mass.
Would like to post my original Catholic Songs on your site.
I would love to play new arrangements for children’s mass and introduce additional Catholic hymns to my elementary students!
I am a Catholic musician - vocal, guitar. I am writing original Catholic Adoration music and would like to be part of a community of collaboration and sharing!
Am a catholic and I love music and singing in particular.
I enjoy listening to contemporary songs during the day as I work and relax. It helps to keep my focus on the Lord and strengthens my faith
Want to promote hymns to students.
Practising Catholic lady 68yrs old. I love Jesus and Our Blessed lady and would love to listen to the hymns to Our lady
I am a catholic hermit and I live in Israel. I love music and to write and produce songs and I wish to share them here and to listen to Christian music of other singers and songwriters and to pray for each other.
I want to share my composed music in liturgy and in praise gatherings. also want to know more about musicians from other side of the catholic musicians
i worship in catholic church
I love Mary and wish to listen to the songs, I believe she will heal my father
I am a Music Director in a Catholic Church in Denver Colorado
Church Organist
I celebrate catholic mass with 900 seventeen to nineteen year old Marine recruits and the contract for my musician will not be renewed as a cost saving measure. I desperately need help in perhaps putting on large screen hymns and having lyrics to give to choir. Please help!
Father Michael Booth boothmichael1954@icloud.com
Looks like a good site. I like the music possibilities.
I love singing and listening to catholic songs
You have some music mp3 recordings I need for practice.
For liturgical use and in our Catholic school
I am a Music Minister.
I'm one of the music directors at my parish and TCS has many of the songs we use.
I would to learn more songs for use during our Masses.
I am organist at catholic church
To listen to hymns of Mother Mary
To Praise
I am part of a music ministry at St. Theresa's Church
I am Catholic
I'm searching for songs my old Church used to sing, now that I've moved away.
I need some music for a mass I'm playing for former Catholic Principal and her husband.
I would like to become a registered user at topcatholicsongs.com to learn new songs that will be sung in our community which also follows the guidelines set by our diocese.
I am a catholic and a dedicated Legion of Mary Preasidium. I'm also the most Holy Rosary con fraternity.
I am grateful
I am so grateful that we get to work on several songs for the past weeks.
I notice that we are approaching different styles of the song lyric into music:
1. "God's gifts for all the world" is beautiful done by Richard write his own song lyric for the song and Dan Vi Nguyen think of the original ideas for the song.
2. "For the love of humanity" is a chant style of music.
3. "Christ makes our world so beautiful" is a song lyric turn into poem style of music.
4. "Enchristment" is an old prayer at heart from sisters/nuns taught at childhood, and the goal is to turn the prayer into song.
And thanks to you!
Dear friend, you set before me songwriting challenges that few are willing to take on. You have inspired me.
Some might say that your lyrics are "badly written" with "broken English." They may say "that's just a poem...that can never be a song." But I am trying to demonstrate that it is possible to use ANYTHING as a launchpad for writing a song. As I work with your lyrics, I try to stay true to your intent. I use many of your phrases or individual words because I know they have great meaning to you. And they also have great meaning to me as a Catholic! I sometimes change a word or expression to make it flow more smoothly or better excite the soul and imagination.
In some of my collaborations, the music came first. Sometimes, I am given a finished soundtrack and am asked to compose and sing lyrics. That is very difficult. See my "Hungry For Heaven" project as an example.
Hungry For Heaven web site: www.hungryforheaven.com
Pour Heaven on Me, Movement 2 of Hungry for Heaven: topcatholicsongs.com/pour-heaven-on-me-hungry-for-heaven
Also, see this complete album that I did with "two mystery musicians from Germany" a few years ago. They wrote complete soundtracks first. Then I wrote lyrics and laid them over the music (just like HFH above):
Can't Let Go album with Steiner and Anselm: www.topcatholicsongs.com/cant-let-go
Richard Schletty | Schletty Design and Music | www.schletty.com
Berklee Music teacher Pat Pattison
I am now taking the Songwriting courses at Berklee Music teacher Pat Pattison.
But I still have so much challenges in writing as you know.
Pat Pattison is a good teacher.
Pat Pattison was our presenter at an MAS songwriting workshop here in St. Paul a few years ago. He gave very good tips about prosody and how a song should "gain weight" as it progresses. I am so glad you are taking Pat's course.
I will start to explain more about my songwriting process as I collaborate with you and other people here at TCS. I am on the board of MAS – the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. I am the organization's tech coordinator and I do post-production for our SongCasters TV show. www.mnsongwriters.org
Richard Schletty | Schletty Design and Music | www.schletty.com
Writing lyrics – any approach is OK
I've approached songs different ways, sometimes starting with a poem scratched on paper, sometimes starting with an instrumental track someone gave me. I have co-written, too, helping someone improve their lyrics or add verses. Sometimes the words rhyme. The stanzas normally rhyme, but you can do free verse, too.
Important thing is the meter and flow. Do the words flow easily from your lips to the ear of the listener? Are you stressing the syllables correctly? That's especially important in English and Dutch languages — stressed vs unstressed syllables. Don't use big words unless you absolutely have to.
Finally, if you are a Catholic songwriter, you are probably telling the story of God or Jesus or the Holy Spirit. You are telling the Good News. You are expressing hopes, visions, joys, fears, sorrows, triumphs, or simple tales of love. Each song is a narrative. Keep it simple but make each verse "gain weight" (as taught by Berklee Music teacher Pat Pattison). What is gaining weight? The story unfolds, the plot thickens, more characters are added to the story, or the story becomes multi-layered in meaning.
The final task is to record the lyrics with prosody and passion, melding your voice with instruments and perhaps other voices.
Richard Schletty | Schletty Design and Music | www.schletty.com