Recent additions and changes

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January 2008

• New spoof: I love the hymns..., which is probably meaningless if you're not into poetic technique.

July 2007

• New hymn: Great Lord and God, we greet this day, ideal for weddings.

June 2007

• New hymn: As we meet in your presence, ideal for re-dedication and mission.

March 2007

• New instrumental descant: As water to the thirsty, text by Timothy Dudley-Smith.
• Newly available hymn: O God of feast and festival now downloadable by kind permission of author Rosalind Brown.
• Various Charles Wesley settings added for this year, the 300th anniversary of his birth.

December 2006

• Earth was waiting, spent and restless. An unusually dark, and therefore valuable, hymn text for Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas.

November 2006

• Amazing Grace set to House of the Rising Sun for three-part singing group.
• Mountjoy Eucharist setting assembled into a single publication.

August 2006

• New hymn setting: O God of feast and festival, text by Canon Rosalind Brown of Durham Cathedral.

May 2006

• New descant: Coe Fen (How shall I sing that majesty?)

March 2006

• New psalm setting (4): Answer me, hear my plea.
• New hymn (psalm) setting: Timothy Dudley-Smith's new text, based on Psalm 111: Rejoice in God, my heart.

February 2006

• All psalm settings and several other pieces tidied up (style, typography) and made consistent (text size, staff size, etc.).
• Psalm settings: various descants and arrangements added.

December 2005

• New hymn arrangement for choir: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth.
• New carol arrangement for music-group: God rest you merry, gentlemen.
• New hymn setting (Holy Spirit, Pentecost): So free, so bright, so beautiful and fair.

January 2005

• New song of lament: How are we to sing our songs to you?: This seems particularly poignant and appropriate following the Asian tsunami.

August 2004

• New psalm setting (137): By the turbid waters of Babylon.

June 2004

• New descant: Crown him with many crowns.

April/May 2004

• New descant: Lord for the years.
• Revision: Eucharistic Prayer H: celebrant top notes lowered; accompaniment adjusted; guitar chords added.
• New: Crossgate Service: provide congregational handout.

February 2004

• New psalm setting (8): O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name.

January 2004

• New communion setting: Crossgate Service.

November 2003

• New song: God indeed is my deliverer (Isaiah 12).

September 2003

• New liturgical response text: Yet my soul drew back

August 2003

• New liturgical song: God in Christ has revealed his glory from Common Worship.

June 2003

• Addition: Broken for me: Descant.
• Addition: All my hope on God is founded (Michael): Descant.

May 2003

• Addition: Eucharistic Prayer A: Setting for congregation, president and keyboard.
• Addition: Eucharistic Prayer D: Setting for congregation, president and either music-group or organ.

January 2003

• Addition: Descant to Angel voices ever singing.
• WWW site migrated to new, special-purpose URL http://www.servicemusic.org.uk/
• Addition: Psalm 116:12-19. Ideal for Maundy Thursday.
• Revision: Psalms 32, 70, 121, 130: Add guitar chords.
• Revision: Psalm 121: Simplify accompaniment.
• Addition: Descant to The Church's one foundation (tune: Aurelia).
• Addition: Reviews of these resources by other people

December 2002:

• New canticle: Blessed are you.

November 2002:

• Addition: Biography.
• Revision: Psalm 15: Add descant; revise accompaniment.
• Addition: May my cry (Psalm 119): Add MIDI file.
• New psalm: Psalm 139: 1-18: Anglican chant style.
• New song: You were in the form of God (Philippians 2)
• New song: Great and wonderful (Revelation 15)
• Revision: Eucharistic Prayer H: Provide congregational handout.
• Revision: Magnificat: Add descant; revise accompaniment.