LOVE
I composed this song at Lee Abbey in 1975 to be the postlude following an improvised conversation over a staged meal for four, ‘Table Talk’. The accompaniment, first composed in 2013, was completely re-written in 2019.
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Grey Skies
The second of three poems by Peter Glew I set for voice and piano in 2018.
Funeral Nunc Dimittis
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 …
Looking at you
This worship-song concluded my ‘oratorio’ WRESTLING WITH CHRIST, presented at Christmas 1974 by members of the Lee Abbey Community.
Come, make way for the music that sires the stars
This song was adapted for Andrew Douglas-Forbes and Konstantin Lapshin from a hymn I was invited to write on the theme ‘Make Way’. Only after the hymn was sung at the service in Winchester Cathedral for which it was composed Read More …
Come, Flaming Fire of Divine Love
** I set this prayer to be a congregational song, and to mark the ordinations of Rosalind Paul, in Truro, and John Horton, in Coventry. [pdf-embedder url=”http://www.dougconstablehymns.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Come-Flaming-Fire.pdf
It’s time once more (Prayer Time)
*** This is a re-writing of the poem I wrote for a grand-daughter’s ninth birthday, set to music four years later. It’s time once more to turn to the door.midi
O Love, O Love, O fearless Love
* This hymn-song was composed to be part of a Lenten sermon for St Anne’s Calmore, near Southampton. In verse 2 ‘… people kill the thing they love’ comes from Oscar Wilde: ‘for each man kills the thing he loves’ (Ballad Read More …
The boy who once ignored you
*** This hymn is in the form of a song.
I took the work you offered
*** This hymn re-tells the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard in Matthew 20.1-16. The music, conceived as an Irish jig, was written shortly after visiting friends in RAMELTON, County Donegal. Here the story is told by one of the longest-serving workers Read More …