About the music: I Have Had Singing, Agnus Dei, Thank You for the Music, Total Praise

Hello everyone!
Here are some links to reference text, context and composers:

"I Have Had Singing" TTBB - setting by Ron Jeffers

Ron Jeffers 1943 – 2017 wasone of the founders of Earthsongs publishing company.

Wrote I H H S as a gift to choirs. The sheet music is available free over internet, not for sale anywhere!

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Fascinating book which references the text: lotta garble but I think you can extract the pertinent information - Begin at p114 “Singing at work and the dialectic of grounded happiness”

 - https://books.google.com/books?id=GX8YAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=fred+mitchell+i+have+had+singing&source=bl&ots=xdSwIZkoeF&sig=INjBHPfel_SZWw955MCrRT1WYsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgicqjgeDYAhVR_WMKHXfqDYM4ChDoAQgoMAA#v=onepage&q=fred%20mitchell%20i%20have%20had%20singing&f=false

Here's a review of the book where the text was first published

https://hogglestock.com/2010/04/08/book-review-voices-of-akenfield-by-ronald-blythe/

And, if you're in a hurry - here's a bit of info about the text, taken from program notes here  http://stevensametz.com/composer/works/info/i-have-had-singing/

 I Have Had Singing paraphrases lines taken from Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village.  In the 1960’s, Blythe traveled to the north of England interviewing farmers, plowmen, blacksmiths — people whose stories dated back to the early 20th century.  One subject, given the name Fred Mitchell in the book, was an 80-year old horseman who told his story of working a bleak, unfertile land in a life filled with little joy. In the midst of his story, he stopped and said, “But there was always singing; the boys in the field, the chapels were full of singing. I have had pleasure enough; I have had singing.” 

Thank you for the music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_the_Music

About ABBA 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA

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Here is a wonderful article about Richard Smallwood that references “Total Praise”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-richard-smallwood-you-know-4-doves-10-stellars-8-grammy-noms/2015/07/22/553d5cfc-0a28-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html?utm_term=.887c2241c1b8

Agnus Dei text and musics

In the liturgy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnus_Dei_(liturgy)

Music:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnus_Dei_(music)

LISTEN TO SOME OF THE PIECES REFERENCED IN THIS ARTICLE!!!

About Franz Schubert

https://www.biography.com/people/franz-schubert-9475558 - shortish article

BUT 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert is much, much, much better. It is a super long article but I recommend this one if you really want to ‘get to know’ Mr. Schubert.

Franz (was) moved around a bit after he died

http://www.visitingvienna.com/footsteps/schuberts-grave/

About the Zentralfriedhof – AMAZING PLACE. I have been there. I cannot tell you how awe-struck I was, to actually touch BEETHOVEN'S GRAVE. Somehow, despite years upon years of loving labor on various compositions, he truly became a Real Person (TM) to me when I went to the cemetery. He's near Schubert and Brahms (who has a most interesting gravestone indeed - one that I'm sure would have greatly amused him!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Central_Cemetery