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Category: Birth

Hey the gift (unaccompanied)

Posted onJuly 6, 2018February 7, 2019AuthorDougLeave a comment

This dancey song, written in celebration of the birth of Rachel Claringbull, can be sung as a Round, perhaps with the accompaniment of a tambour.

CategoriesBirth, Devotional, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Personal responses, Rounds, Songs, unaccompanied

Whoever you are

Posted onJune 26, 2018June 27, 2018AuthorDougLeave a comment

This simple Christmas hymn can be accompanied by soft rolling drums in addition to the written music. COMMENTARY

CategoriesBirth, Highlighted, Hymns

Looking at you

Posted onJune 26, 2018AuthorDougLeave a comment

This worship-song concluded my ‘oratorio’ WRESTLING WITH CHRIST, presented at Christmas 1974 by members of the Lee Abbey Community.  

Categoriesaccompanied, Birth, Devotional, Hymn-Songs, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Personal responses

Ym Methlem datguddiwyd

Posted onNovember 21, 2011May 23, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

* This hymn is written to be a carol for the Welsh service of Plygain. I am grateful that the author, Alice Evans, has approved my setting of her words. The appended (paraphrase) translation is mine. Ym Methlem datguddiwyd.midi TRANSLATION The prophesied Word Read More …

CategoriesBirth, Hymns, Passion, Praise, Resurrection, The Church

These things she kept and pondered

Posted onDecember 26, 2007May 27, 2016Authoradmin

* I wrote this text simply as a personal response to the words “Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.”   These things she kept and pondered (midi)

CategoriesBirth, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ

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

I am among you as one in danger

Posted onDecember 28, 1996May 26, 2017Authoradmin

This hymn, for congregation or solo with choir, offers a voice to Christ as refugee and companion-saviour of asylum-seekers in every age.  It needs to be sung expressively, with quiet assurance.   COMMENTARY It was no messenger or angel but Read More …

CategoriesBirth, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Refugees, Suffering love

Whoever you are

Posted onDecember 14, 1996May 27, 2016Authoradmin

*** In conscious imitation of African harmony singing, this hymn could also be accompanied by rolling drums.   Whoever you are (midi file)

CategoriesBirth, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ

The Source of Life

Posted onDecember 13, 1996June 26, 2018AuthoradminLeave a comment

*** Offering a theologically rich overview of the meaning of Christmas, the music of this hymn is easily learned. COMMENTARY For many of us Christmas is a ‘magical’ time, but we are at a loss to know how to express Read More …

CategoriesBirth, Creation, Erotic love, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Looking outwards, Out-workings of the Gospel

Child of our time

Posted onSeptember 1, 1975November 15, 2019Authoradmin

This hymn, composed in 1975, after the then Archbishops of Canterbury and York published their ‘Call to the Nation’, seems freshly relevant today. Easily learned and sung, the hymn was written for participants at a conference held at Lee Abbey Devon 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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Donation for downloading hymns or songs

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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  • Songs
    • Hymn-Songs
    • Rounds
    • Voice and Piano
      • With children in mind
    • ‘Art’ songs
  • Anthems
    • Hymn-Anthems
      • SATB accompanied
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    • PASSION OF CHRIST
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