My music

Here is all the music I’ve composed in the Sacred Harp/Christian Harmony styles. Links open in a new tab. Anything without a link is probably something I’m revising!

For all my music on texts by 18th century universalist James Relly in one PDF, click here.

2017

• Adelstein (Christian Harmony style, based on Deuteronomy 32)
• Clare Chapel (plain song, text by Penelope Ann Moody)
• Forest Hill (very bad, anthem on the first of the Quaker Advices & Queries)

2018

• Harmful Frost (on a verse by Ephrem the Syrian)
• Bells of Shandon (3-parter on the poem of the same name)
• David’s Confrontation (fuge, text by William Cowper)
• Hebrews 13 (bad)
• Constant Aim (rangey plain song, text by J. Flesher)
• Burrell’s Field (fuge, altered version of a text by Isaac Watts)
• The Gospel Sound (fuge, text by Eliza R. Snow)
• Final Doom (3-parter, text by M. Wilkes)
• Starry Band (weird syncopated thing, text by Daniel Crane Roberts)
• Westenskow (fuge, text by Marie C. Turk)
• Heaven’s View (plain song, text by Loren C. Dunn)
• Kammeyer (part-song, words by Frank I. Kooyman)
• Gathergood (plain tune, text from the 1878 Primitive Methodist Hymn Book)
• Decatur (fuge, text by Charles Wesley)
• Curse of Esau (anthem on Genesis 27:39-40)

2019

• Susa Rejoices (big anthem on Esther 8:15-17)
• Oak of Weeping (anthem on Genesis 35:8)
• Mournful Joy (double-fuge, text by John Newton)
• Efficacy (plain tune, text by Thomas Kelly)
• Boldness (short fuge, text from Psalm 2:1-2)
• Obadiah 3-4 (plain tune, text from Obadiah 3-4)
• Steadfast Love (quite bad, text from Psalm 136)
• What is Man? (Christian Harmony style, text from Psalm 144:1-5)
• Song of the Well (fuge, text from Numbers 21:17-18)
• Melchizedek’s Blessing (bad but pleasant, tiny anthem on Genesis 14:19-20)
• New Earth (fuge, my own text)

2020

• Redfern (text by Anne Steele)
• Downing Place (plain song, text by James Relly)
• Brimley (short fuge, text from Deuteronomy 16:21-22)
• Arbury Court (part song, text by Anne Steele)
• Day of Visitation (anthem on Isaiah 10:1-3, inspired by ShH450)
• Cenang Beach (text by Nöel Richards and Tricia Richards)
• Seven Wells (short fuge, text by Charles Wesley)
• Bayview (thing with metre change, text by James Relly)
• Peace in the Temple (foolish anthem on 1 Kings 6:7, designed to be sung quietly but I can’t force you)
• Heavenly Conqueror (plain tune, text by Anne Steele)
• Carlton (fuge, text by Elhanan Winchester)
• John 12:32 (plain tune, text by Elhanan Winchester)
• Durnford (fuge, text by Elhanan Winchester)
• Bull Lane (3-parter, text by Anne Steele)
• Kingsway (fuge, text by James Relly)
• To Feel No Sin (text by an unknown author but found in James & John Relly’s hymnal)
• Greenbank
• Footbridge
• Searching Flame (fuge, text by James Relly)
• Stretten (part-song, text by James Relly)
• Weariness (fuge, text is my metrification of Eccl. 1:3-11)
• Botley
• John Beheld
• The Apple Tree
• Holy Eye
• Sonship
• Coldham’s Brook
• Open Door
• Widowhood
• Lay Our Sorrows By (fuge, text by James Relly)
• Jesus Green
• Courtney Way
• Sustenance (weird meter and time signature change, text by James Relly)