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Doug Constable Hymns

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Category: Anthems

Benedicite omnia opera

Posted onFebruary 7, 2019February 13, 2019AuthorDougLeave a comment

The arresting text of this setting is from Janet Morley’s 1988 collection of prayers “All desires known“. I composed the music in a rush of gratitude after I first felt some strength returning after a protracted breakdown variously described as Read More …

CategoriesAccompanied, Anthems, Longer

Stages acc. for practice only

Posted onAugust 22, 2018August 22, 2018AuthorDougLeave a comment

This is a keyboard reduction of the score of ‘Stages SATB’ STAGES_60  

CategoriesAnthems, Longer, Looking outwards, Pilgrimage, Unaccompanied

Worship

Posted onMay 5, 2018AuthorDougLeave a comment

 

CategoriesAnthems, Shorter

Lord of all hopefulness (Hymn-anthem)

Posted onApril 20, 2014June 5, 2016AuthorDoug

** This anthem is an outworking of the unison setting I made for a 1974 Nativity tableau (See Hymns/Outworkings of the Gospel/Community). Lord of all hopefulness SATB piano and solo instrument.midi

CategoriesAccompanied, Anthems, Hymn-Anthems, Longer, Solo and SATB accompanied

A Funeral Nunc Dimittis

Posted onJanuary 8, 2014July 8, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

The music of this setting of the Nunc Dimittis was composed in 1973 as a song with original words for the old man Simeon in Luke 2.29-32. I adapted that song as solo Nunc Dimittis for the funeral in 2013 of Read More …

CategoriesAnthems, Ministry, Shorter, The Church

Rejoice, O land

Posted onSeptember 16, 2006June 16, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

** This 2006 anthem, written for the Matins Choir at St Teilo’s Church, Llandeilo Fawr, was grown from a Round composed in 1979. Rejoice, O land (SATB + organ).midi

CategoriesAccompanied, Anthems, Community, Creation, Harvest, Longer, Out-workings of the Gospel, Praise, The Church

A Song for Anna (anthem)

Posted onFebruary 2, 2001June 14, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

*** I wrote this originally as a song for the prophetess Anna (Luke 2.36-38), and expanded it into an SATB anthem (unaccompanied, ideally) in 2001. A Song for Anna (choral rvsd 14.6.16).midi    

CategoriesAnthems, Birth, Devotional, Epiphany, Erotic love, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Longer, Personal responses, Unaccompanied

To worship is to submit all our nature to God

Posted onOctober 23, 1998June 5, 2016AuthorDoug

** These words are from William Temple’s Readings in St John’s Gospel (1939). I set them in the hope that, by being sung, they would imprint themselves on the memory of worshippers. The occasion of my setting the words was a meeting Read More …

CategoriesAnthems, Hymns, Shorter, The Church, Unaccompanied

Soif d’amour

Posted onOctober 1, 1998July 2, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

It was a particular pleasure that the Conchord Singers of Southampton performed this for a choir from St Andre de l’Eure in Normandy, a town not far from Lisieux, where the convent that housed St Therese (‘the Little Flower of Read More …

CategoriesAnthems, Devotional, Longer, Personal responses, Unaccompanied

O Lord Jesus Christ

Posted onFebruary 9, 1998June 5, 2016AuthorDoug

This setting is really an introit for four-part choir. I have included it as a hymn because it can be easily learned by a congregation, and perhaps be sung as a post-Communion devotion. O Lord Jesus Christ, by thy tender Read More …

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I hope you are able to find many pieces that you want to download and use in worship and other settings. If you would like to donate, the suggested amount is £1.20 per hymn. Thank you.

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    • Voice and Piano
      • With children in mind
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