sheet music Archives - Pamela Holm 1960-2019 https://pamelaholm.ca/tag/sheet-music/ Singer, Songwriter, Music Therapist, Sound & Energy Healer Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:31:59 +0000 en hourly 1 135377168 While He was Sleeping There with You https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/06/while-he-was-sleeping-there-with-you-2013/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:43:14 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1990 NEW VIDEO (Feb. 2021) A really good hurtin' song.

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]]> I found enough drafts of “hurtin’ songs” in Pamela’s manuscripts to make a file of them. She wrote for her own personal therapy, and most won’t get published. By the time (2013) she wrote this gem, however, she could distill her pain into a few words, a good hook, an essential bridge, and the clever device of addressing the “other woman”. Chords are mine, but as an old bandmate observed, Pam and I had a similar sense of harmony. – HH

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  2. Sheet music
  3. Lyrics

Video

Here’s Miranda Lever singing it, as part of a project to get Pam’s songs out into the world, off paper and onto video so people can hear them, and maybe sing them, too. Sheet music is below the video.

Sheet music

While he was Sleeping there with You by Pamela Holm, sheet music PDFDownload

Lyrics

While he was sleeping there with you

It’s been hard to say I’m sorry
for what I had to do.
I somehow saw within your face
a hidden dream come true.
I couldn’t stay forever
but did you have a clue
I’d be walking away
while he was sleeping there with you.

I had no way to tell you
’bout how bad it could be.
But you are not me either
and that much I could see.
I was drawing strength within myself
but his mind was blind to truth,
that I could walk away
while he was sleeping there with you.

I hear a cry of innocence
I hear a cry of pain
I hear a cry of “How could this
be coming round again?”
I haven’t got your answers,
and my own are much too few,
all I can say is that I had to go
while he was sleeping there with you.

All I can say is that I had to go
while he was sleeping there with you.

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]]> 1990 A Recipe for Love https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/06/a-recipe-for-love-2006/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 02:28:13 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1982 A sultry song with swing about looking for love.

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]]> They say that if you’re looking for love, you should make a list of what you want in an ideal partner.

So Pam made it into sultry song.

She never, to my knowledge, recorded it. I found it handwritten in a notebook along with many other original songs that amazed me as I emptied her apartment.

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  2. Sheet Music
  3. Lyrics

Video

I asked Miranda Lever to sing “A Recipe for Love” for a video.

Sheet Music

A Recipe for Love by Pamela Holm, sheet musicDownload

Lyrics

A Recipe for Love

A recipe for love, that’s what I’m looking for,
A recipe for love.
I want to find me a real yummy cookin’ one
So I’m writing me a recipe for love.

I want a man who knows how to flavor sweetness in my mouth
With depth and richness that can bring me to my knees.
I want a man who knows how to hold my soul within his hands,
And breathe on me life-giving breath please.

A man who knows hunger,
A man who knows satisfaction,
A man who knows how to join me in harmony,

I want a man who knows how to carry fire without getting burnt
Cause fire’s what you’ll be getting from me.

I know you’re out there
I feel your heart getting closer
I know you’re lookin’ for me.
So when your hunger is ready for satisfaction,
You’ve got my recipe.

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]]> 1982 Hap-Happy Birthday for SATB https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/05/hap-happy-birthday-for-satb/ Thu, 14 May 2020 02:45:42 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1967 A mashup of Happy Birthday songs for SATB.

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]]> Pam's 44th birthday cake
Pam’s 44th birthday cake

In this arrangement, Pam takes the traditional Happy Birthday song and the version sung to the tune of the Merry Widow Waltz, sets both in 4/4 time and adds some do-wop for SATB quartet or choir.

In the video below, you can experiment with tempo by clicking the gear icon bottom right and changing playback speed. I think 1.25 or 1.5 might be about right.

Hap-Happy Birthday SATB in D, by Pamela HolmDownload
Hap-Happy Birthday SATB in F, by Pamela HolmDownload

Her original is in the key of F. My son and I recorded it lower, in D, as in the video above. Contact me for the MuseScore (open-source software) file and you can transpose it to any key that suits you.

We also made this video version for our friend Peter’s 65th birthday during the COVID-19 isolation. Same soundtrack.

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]]> 1967 Hold the World in Love https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/04/hold-the-world-in-love-2011/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:58:45 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1929 NEW VIDEO (Sept. 2020). Sing-along song for a rally or other gathering, Earth Day, environmental caretaking event, spiritual group.

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]]> Where can you see this song being sung? I can imagine it on the steps of a parliament or legislature at an Earth Day or environmental rally. More quietly in a small circle. Arranged for choir, or for small a capella groups. I can imagine people changing the words or writing new verses to suit their cause, their mindset, the needs of the day. I can imagine it evolving into an anthem (one of many) of those who are embracing a new relationship with the planet.

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  2. Sheet music
  3. Lyrics

Video

We recorded this song in 2020 near Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

Sheet music

Hold the World in Love – Sheetmusic with lyricsDownload
Sheetmusic for Hold the World in Love

Lyrics

Hold the World in Love

Listen to the heartbeat of the nations
Listen to the rhythm of their songs
Listening, feel the spirit as it rises
Listen how the heartbeat draws us home

Hold the world in love (x4)

Hear the steps of people walking peaceward
Hear the steps of people holding hands
Feel the rhythms as we walk together
Bringing hope and courage to all lands

Hold the world in love (x4)

We sing of peace, we sing of courage, we sing of love
We sing of truth, we sing of justice, we sing of love

Hear the sound as nations sing together
Feel the strength as voices rise in song
Feel the spirit, oh my sister, brother
Singing out our songs in unison

Hold the world in love (x4)

I feel appreciation for my sisters
Who gather us around the fire bright
I feel compassion deeply for my brothers
Searching for a way to make things right

We sing of life, we sing of harmony, we sing of love
We sing of joy, and of tenacity, we sing of love

Forgiving one another for our failures
Forgiving first of all the one within
Learning how to dance as equal partners
So paradise on Earth, it can begin

We sing of sharing, and of compassion, we sing of love
We sing of peace, and of forgiveness, we sing of love

Hold the world in love (x4 or more to finish)

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]]> 1929 Joy Dances Through Me https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/03/joy-dances-through-me/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:09:40 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1903 A paean of ecstasy in 3/4 time.
NEW VIDEO by Miranda Lever (Dec. 2020).

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]]> A happy waltz, found near Waltz to the Angels. So maybe it was also written about 2006.

It’s short, so I can imagine singing it through once, then have an instrumental break, then singing either the last half, or the whole thing again. I can also imagine it sung by a choir.

Waltz me round through the heavens in three quarter time.

Joy Dances Through Me, by Pamela Holm
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Video

Here’s Miranda Lever singing it:

Sheet music

Joy Dances Through Me by Pamela Holm, sheet musicDownload
A paean of ecstasy in 3/4 time.

Lyrics

Joy dances through me like a light summer rain.
Hearing a cheerful bird’s song, my heart’s singing again.
Lift me high on your wings, O great Spirit Divine,
Waltz me round through the heavens in three quarter time.

Joy, joy, carries my heart
From the first rays of dawn through the twinkling of stars.
Joy, wrap my life in your bliss,
Help the world to know you like this.

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]]> 1903 Home by the Ocean https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/03/home-by-the-ocean/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:34:06 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1896 NEW VIDEO Dec 2020: A song expressing the heart's tug-of-war between home by the sea and living far away for work.

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]]> Home by the Ocean poignantly expresses Pam’s perennial wish to move back to the Maritimes. She wrote it just after a 2016 summer car trip through New Brunswick, to us in Nova Scotia, and back to Ottawa along the North Shore of the Gaspé Peninsula. She was doing research for a writing project, The Marco Polo Table, and also visiting places she had lived as a child.

And the tug of war between life inland and shore, between work and wages and sea
Tears me apart, wrestles hard with my heart, and I long to be free …

From Home by the Ocean by Pamela Holm

Maritimers and would-be Maritimers love this song.

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  2. Sheet music
  3. Lyrics

Videos

Mirth (Miranda Lever, Mary Knickle and Cynthia Myers) in St. John’s Church, Lunenburg, Aug. 31, 2022:

Miranda Lever solo in 2020.

Sheet music

Home by the Ocean by Pamela Holm, sheet music Download

Lyrics

There’s a call from the heart of my soul
to go down to the tide, to the salt crested tide
to the shoreline where waves gently roll
to the wild rocking beat, cooling sand ‘neath my feet
to be home by the ocean once more.

A rover I am, a sailor on land.
I’ve lived in far places, journeyed through foreign lands.
I have braved other climates in the heat and the rain,
gazed at far mountains, and come home again.

A sailor on land, my home is my car
On four wheels I’ve travelled, follow some distant star.
I have lost myself over and over again
Then the smell of the seaside brings me home once again.

And the tug of war between life inland and shore,
Between work and wages and sea,
Tears me apart, wrestles hard with my heart
And I long to be free

To follow the call of my soul
to go down to the tide, to the salt crested tide
to the shoreline where waves gently roll
to the wild rocking beat, cooling sand ‘neath my feet
to be home by the ocean once more.

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]]> 1896 Waltz to the Angels (2006) https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/03/waltz-to-the-angels-2006/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:00:58 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1890 A melodic, danceable waltz.

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  1. Read-along video, played by Bev Shaw and Liam Britten
  2. Audio only, by Bev and Liam
  3. Sheet music download
  4. Sheet music preview
  5. For practice
  6. Editor's notes

Read-along video, played by Bev Shaw and Liam Britten

Bev Shaw (the violinist in the video of Pamela singing Another Bright Star for our mother’s funeral) and her guitarist/tech wizard son, Liam Britten, took advantage of being isolated in different places to produce this recording of Pamela’s Waltz to the Angels. I’ve added it to the read-along animated score.

Audio only, by Bev and Liam

Waltz to the Angels by Pamela Holm, played by Bev Shaw, violin, Liam Britten, guitars and bass

Sheet music download

Waltz to the Angels by Pamela Holm: Sheet musicDownload

Sheet music preview

Waltz to the Angels by Pamela Holm: sheet music

For practice

Tune played slowly on the piano, 120 bpm. Two bars intro.

Editor’s notes

Was this waltz ever going to be a song? Pam started writing words for it, but only got 16 bars in.

Music wafting from Heaven, rocking the world on your wings
Give us the grace to hear the voices of beloved angels as they sing

Sometimes I think that Pamela was challenging herself to practice things she’d learned when studying music at Concordia University back in the 1980s. This waltz was originally written in A♭, and the chords are in Roman numerals. “Capo 1” is written in the top left corner, which makes me think she never actually played it with the bar chords that the key of A♭ would demand on the guitar (which she did know how to do, by the way) but played it in G if she played it on guitar at all. In March 2006 she had just moved to Perth, and I think she had access to a piano.

So I’ve written in out in G. Capo it if you want, but your fiddlers and penny whistlers will be happy if you keep it in G. The key of A♭ is home to some very fine piano waltzes, which worked well for Chopin and Brahms, but if this one is going to get played for dances, G it is. It’s going to be in my repertoire.

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]]> 1890 All is Well (2013) https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/01/all-is-well/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:08:37 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1840 An interesting round in 4 parts. Recordings included to aid in learning.

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]]> A lovely 4-part round, more complex than many.

I found this round in one of Pamela’s notebooks, handwritten with blocked chords as a guide for creating the tune. There’s no evidence that she ever sang it with anyone.

Pamela wrote it in the key of G, but many people will find that too high, so I’ve transposed it down to D. I’ve added the sheet music in the higher key to download, if you prefer.

See the recordings below to help you learn it.

All is Well (round) in D (lower) sheet music PDFDownload
All is Well (round) in G (higher) sheet music PDFDownload

Here is a piano playing the tune (in D), with repeats to help you learn it and sing another part with it:

All is Well, key of D, single part on piano

And here’s all four parts in a round, using different (computer-generated) instruments: piano, guitar, marimba and banjo (in D), so hopefully you can follow one of them and hear how it goes, and sing along:

All is Well, key of D, 4-part round, a different instrument on each part

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]]> 1840 I am THAT (2009) https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/01/i-am-that-2009/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:53:38 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1824 Mantra set to a tune, with guitar chords.

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]]> “I am THAT” (So’ham or So hum) is a powerful mantra for attuning with the Higher Self and unity consciousness.

Pamela found value in singing it, out loud and in English, to her own tune – and then in presenting it to others.

There’s no law in the universe to prevent you or anyone from creating your own tune to sing a mantra. You are THAT.

Or you can sing Pamela’s tune:

I am THAT by Pamela Holm, sheet music (PDF)Download

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]]> 1824 Peace Flows https://pamelaholm.ca/2020/01/peace-flows-2014/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:00:56 +0000 https://pamelaholm.ca/?p=1818 A round in four parts, with a therapeutic twist.

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]]> A round in four parts. The arrows in the last two bars indicate a deep in-breath and a relaxing out-breath, “ah”, thus insuring that peace will flow around, through and within the singers, as promised by the lyrics. My clever sister! – HH

Sheet music

Peace Flows by Pamela Holm, sheet music PDFDownload

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