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Category: Resurrection

Funeral Nunc Dimittis

Posted onJuly 4, 2018July 4, 2018AuthorDougLeave a comment

Created in 2013 for the funeral of a friend, Maureen, this piece derives from one I made in 1973 for a Nativity presentation  at Lee Abbey ‘A Song for Simeon and Anna’. The words here set for ‘her’ can be Read More …

Categoriesaccompanied, Communion of Saints, Epiphany, Resurrection, Songs

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

Is this for me, this shattering news?

Posted onApril 2, 2002May 17, 2018AuthorDoug

*** Unconventional in that it does not begin by proclaiming Resurrection triumph, this hymn for Easter Day is based on  Peter’s sermon in the house of CORNELIUS (Acts 10.34-43). It presupposes that the singing worshipper is part of Peter’s congregation, and is enabled, Read More …

CategoriesHymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Resurrection

We have not walked these paths before

Posted onApril 30, 2001May 23, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

** Christopher Idle wrote this lyric on the first day of this millennium. We have not walked these paths before.midi PORRESHAR.midi I like this lyric a lot, and was particularly grateful for the chance to give it a musical setting, because, Read More …

CategoriesHymns, Looking outwards, New beginnings, Out-workings of the Gospel, Resurrection

Appeal to God

Posted onMay 6, 1997June 5, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

This hymn anticipates the celebration of Christ’s Ascension.   It expounds a remarkable fact of history: that members of a small, first-century sect within the Roman Empire proclaimed that ‘their’ God had gone into heaven… with angels, authorities and powers Read More …

CategoriesAscension, Baptism, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Resurrection, Sovereign Authority, The Church

Do not let your hearts be troubled

Posted onApril 30, 1997June 5, 2016AuthorDoug

A versification and setting of words from John chapter 14. I realized that the opening sentence of John 14 fits beautifully to the first line of music in a much-loved Welsh lullaby Suo Gân (though the lullaby has two phrases to a Read More …

CategoriesHymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Looking outwards, Passion, Personal responses, Pilgrimage, Resurrection, The Church

Christ our Shepherd, all souls calling

Posted onApril 23, 1997June 5, 2016AuthorDoug

* The music of this hymn is an arrangement of Bach’s ‘Sheep may safely graze’, sung first at a gloomy low pitch, then a bright fourth higher. Christ our shepherd.midi COMMENTARY ‘Shepherd’ is a notoriously redundant image for modern urban Read More …

CategoriesJesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Resurrection

Upon the cross you breathed your last

Posted onApril 16, 1997June 5, 2016AuthorDoug

*  A simple hymn about the apostle Thomas’ encounter with the risen Christ. Upon the cross you breathed your last.midi COMMENTARY This writer grew up thinking that ‘Doubting Thomas’ was a moral liability to Jesus and his elite corps of Read More …

CategoriesCommunion of Saints, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Resurrection, The Church

Mary, weep not, weep no longer

Posted onJuly 22, 1996July 2, 2020AuthorDoug

* Around 1975 I wrote out the plainsong of this Easter hymn as a song for women’s voices and piano. The setting here, for women’s voices first, then SATB, is written to be sung as a hymn, but also to Read More …

CategoriesCommunion of Saints, Hymns, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Resurrection, The Church

Most holy Jesu

Posted onOctober 31, 1981May 23, 2016AuthorDougLeave a comment

*** This hymn was written when I was Vicar of St Thomas’ PEARTREE in Derby, to mark the centenary of the church’s consecration on 21st December 1881. Most holy Jesus.midi

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