Hey the gift (unaccompanied)
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.
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Whoever you are
This simple Christmas hymn can be accompanied by soft rolling drums in addition to the written music. COMMENTARY
Looking at you
This worship-song concluded my ‘oratorio’ WRESTLING WITH CHRIST, presented at Christmas 1974 by members of the Lee Abbey Community.
Ym Methlem datguddiwyd
* 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 …
These things she kept and pondered
* 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)
A Song for Anna (anthem)
*** 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
I am among you as one in danger
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 …
Whoever you are
*** In conscious imitation of African harmony singing, this hymn could also be accompanied by rolling drums. Whoever you are (midi file)
The Source of Life
*** 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 …
Child of our time
*** In 1975 the then Archbishops of Canterbury and York published a Call to the Nation. This hymn, easily learned and sung, was written for participants at a conference held at Lee Abbey Devon in November 1975 to consider this Call. Although it Read More …