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Caritas Dei
Romans 5:5b (alt.) Caritas Dei diffusa est in cordibus nostris, alleluia: per inhabitantem Spiritum eius in nobis, alleluia. (God’s love has been poured into your hearts, alleluia: Through the Holy...
View ArticleNORBERG — In memoriam Roy Gordon Norberg, 1944-2019
Last month, Roy Norberg died. Roy was the father of a friend I spent many happy hours with in childhood. I can remember him making sure, when I was visiting for Christmas, that I had a performance...
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I sing of a maiden
Here is my .PDF of “I sing of a maiden” I sing of a maiden PDF file. Here is the robot clarionet rendition: http://artsyhonker.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/I-sing-of-a-maiden.mp3 Text: I sing of a...
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This Endris Night
If you’re looking for a relatively straightforward SATB carol, you might enjoy my setting of This Endris Night: This endris night, I saw a sight, A star as bright as day, And ever among this maiden...
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Good Friday
Here’s my setting of ‘Good Friday’ by Christina Rossetti: http://artsyhonker.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Good-Friday-flewitts.mp3 Am I a stone and not a sheep That I can stand, O Christ, beneath...
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The Passion
I chose this poem by George Herbert for Station X in my Stations of the Cross, “Jesus is Stripped”. To have our clothing removed, particularly forcibly, is so vulnerable; but in asking Jesus to fill...
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Ave Verum Corpus
Here is my setting of the Ave Verum Corpus: http://artsyhonker.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ave-Verum-Corpus.mp3 Ave Verum Corpus PDF file Ave, verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine: vere passum,...
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Faithful Cross
Here’s another movement from my Stations of the Cross — not really suitable for today’s feast of Ascension, but I didn’t want to wait until Holy Cross Day to post it. Eventually I’ll do a Latin...
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Ave Maria
It was Refreshment Sunday today, and we had at least one of my favourite Marian hymns. Here’s my setting of the Ave Maria, then, played by robots:...
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There Is No Rose
Here is my setting of an anonymous text from around 1420: It was wonderful to compose this for the Cathedral Singers of Ontario, who I’ve sung with for many years on their visits to the UK, and to sing...
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Another Double Psalm Chant
I was asked to compose a psalm chant for Psalm 91, for the University of London Church Choir to sing on our tour to Ripon Cathedral last week. I can’t share the recording with you yet, as I haven’t...
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Waterbeach
I’m singing in Ely Cathedral this week, and staying in a guest house in Waterbeach, so I wrote a hymn tune today. Here are the words, by Nathaniel Cotton: 1. Affliction is a stormy deep, Where wave...
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Immigrant Jesus
I’m not an American citizen. I don’t have a lot of spare money at the moment. What I can do is write hymn tunes. So I’ve written one to this text by Gary Alderson: 1. You ran from oppression, Crossed...
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Music for Lent 1: Angelis suis
(If I’ve done this correctly it should post on Wednesday night, UK time…) Ready or not, Lent is upon us. In January, Sally Martin-Brown asked me if I had anything suitable for the University of London...
View ArticleColwall 87 87 887 (Lo, in the wilderness a voice)
I have a new project, Cecilia’s List, where (among other things) I make weekly recommendations for music composed by women and other underrepresented groups that’s suitable for church use. I’ve only...
View ArticleHilltop 55 54 D
Another hymn tune! This one, I think, might be suitable for Harvest, though the Revd Ally Barrett based it on the theology behind the gospel story about tax: ‘render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s;...
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This text by the Revd Ally Barrett was written shortly after the Orlando shooting in 2016, and then drawn to my attention again in 2017 after the Manchester attack. And since then there have been more...
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Round Me Falls the Night
I’ve long enjoyed William Romanis’s hymn text, “Round Me Falls the Night” — so I decided to set it as an anthem. Originally I used TTBB voicing, but on balance, I like the SATB version better. I think...
View ArticleWaving
The past week has been a little less silly than some, but still busy. The West Gallery course at Benslow last weekend was great fun, but hard work: we really could have done with another four or six...
View ArticleArt House: a hymn for Easter
I know, I know, it isn’t Easter yet, we’ve only just started Lent, and it’s probably too late for most people to use this hymn this year. But I liked the text, by Ally Barrett, very much: Life comes to...
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