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
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 …