Modern(ish) hymns not in the trad books
  • probe
    Posts: 227
    I've gone over the London Oratory hymnbook and the A Catholic Book of Hymns from SacredMusicLibrary.com (thank you for the pdf option as a way to check the contents!) and the following hymns selected by our parish are not listed. I imagine that some are omitted because they are local to Ireland, others because they are not Traditional; and maybe some I have not realised are present under another name.

    All that I am
    As I kneel before you
    Be still and know
    Be Thou my Vision
    Christ be beside me
    Colours of day
    God's Spirit is in my heart
    Let us break bread together
    Love is His word
    Make me a channel
    O purest of creatures
    O Lord my God
    Sweet Heart of Jesus

    I have links to Youtube videos of all these. I can of course google for music scores, some are probably on musescore.com. But I wonder is there any hymn book that would conveniently include most of these? Are any in copyright still?

    Thank you.
  • m_r_taylor
    Posts: 406
    Several are under copyright. Catholic Book of Hymns states that all hymns are public domain or creative commons.
  • oldhymnsoldhymns
    Posts: 282
    O Purest of Creatures is a mid-19th century hymn, and Sweet Heart of Jesus is a late-19th century hymn; both originated in England. Both hymns exist with several different melodies in various hymnals. I would doubt that either of these would be under any kind of copyright. In looking over the remainder of the hymns, it does seem that most of those will still be under a copyright.
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,762
    All that I am: Sebastian Temple died in 1997, so it will be so for a very long time

    As I kneel before you: almost certainly copyrighted

    Be still and know: PD (as far as I can tell)

    Be Thou my Vision: PD in virtually all countries that matter (look for SLANE)

    Christ be beside me: looks like it’s copyrighted

    Colours of day: copyrighted

    God's Spirit is in my heart: copyrighted

    Let us break bread together: if it’s the one that comes up first with Google, PD

    Love is His word: copyrighted

    Make me a channel: under copyright; another Sebastian Temple work

    O purest of creatures: PD

    O Lord my God: copyrighted

    Sweet Heart of Jesus: PD
  • unknownadversary
    Posts: 15
    Kevin Mayhew's Hymns Old and New has all of them.
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