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Beall, Mary Kay: HYMNS FOR A TROUBLED WORLD Ref: HP922

Ten hymns with music by John Carter. The great hymnwriter, Charles Wesley, lived in a particularly difficult age. Within his massive contribution of over 6500 hymn texts is a small collection entitled Hymns for times of Trouble and Persecution. This collection of hymns is an effort by the writers to address the complex moral issues that face us today. The writers are a husband and wife team and are active members of the American Choral Directors' Association, the Hymn Society of America and Canada and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians.

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Boyce-Tillman, June: A Rainbow to Heaven Ref: B890

Stainer & Bell are pleased to announce the publication of A Rainbow to Heaven, which brings together in one volume many of the musical settings and texts which are the fruit of June Boyce-Tillman’s commitment to the empowerment of women.

Her role as composer, performer, writer, teacher and theologian is faithfully reflected in 167 items, which draw on a diversity of traditional and modern sources to create a unique and inspiring collection.

There is material here that relates to the themes of dance, healing, ecology, the medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen, women saints, the Wisdom tradition, peace and justice, ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue, inclusive language and many other topics of contemporary interest.

A fascinating introduction places the hymns, songs and chants in the context of June’s evolving thought about the nature of music, worship, spirituality and the role of women.

ISBN 0 85249 890 X

Price: £13.50

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Carter, Sydney: IN THE PRESENT TENSE, BOOK 1 Ref: 25068

18 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment.

Price: £5.50

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Carter, Sydney: IN THE PRESENT TENSE, BOOK 2 Ref: 25075

17 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment.

Price: £5.50

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Carter, Sydney: IN THE PRESENT TENSE, BOOK 3 Ref: 25078

19 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment.

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Carter, Sydney: IN THE PRESENT TENSE, BOOK 4 Ref: B098

16 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment.

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Carter, Sydney: IN THE PRESENT TENSE, BOOK 5 Ref: B500

13 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment.

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Carter, Sydney: LORD OF THE DANCE and other songs and poems Ref: B855

Songbook to accompany the Lord of the Dance CD

CONTENTS
Poem: My Believing Bones; Lord of the Dance; Present Tense; Poem: Doubting Tom; Pluck the Rose; Poem: What is Impossible; Poem: Run the Film Backwards; Come, Holy Harlequin; Judas and Mary; Poem: The New Song; Poem: Reversal; Poem: By this Sea; Poem: Robinson Crusoe; Bird of Heaven; After Six and All Day Sunday; Poem: The Future in the Past; Green like the Leaves; Shake and Shiver; Poem: Christ’s Hospital; Poem: In Coram Fields; Poem: Interview; Creator of the Living; Julian of Norwich; One More Step; Like the Snow; Poem: This Black Light
ISBN 0 85249 855 1

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Carter, Sydney: THE TWO-WAY CLOCK Ref: B287

Reprinted in 2000 this collection contains Sydney's poetry collections Nothing Fixed or Final; Love More or Less previously published separately together with The Feel of Wood as well as a previously unpublished poem. 107 poems by this prolific writer. Some will recognise the Housman influence in them. All can enjoy their language.
ISBN 0 85249 287 1

Price: £6.75

Clarkson, Margaret: A SINGING HEART Ref: HP390

This is the collected hymns of this famous Canadian author. Included is an autobiographical chapter about her pilgrimage as a hymnwriter.

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Cosnett, Elizabeth: HYMNS FOR EVERYDAY SAINTS Ref: B870

The 36 hymns in this new anthology cover a variety of subjects, including familiar themes such as Christmas and Easter, as well as the role of women, illness and healing, wartime remembrance, and prostitution. They are illuminated by the author's preface and commentaries to each of the hymns, offering fascinating insights into hymn writing and the creative process, and issues of language and content in relation to the concerns of contemporary Christians. Ian Sharp has composed new musical settings for many of the texts.
ISBN 0 85249 870 5

Price: £9.25

Damon, Daniel: FAITH WILL SING Ref: HP1629

Brian Wren's delightful Foreword to this collection states that Damon is equally gifted as a writer of both texts and tunes. This is his first publication containing 24 exciting new hymns.

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Daw Jr, Carl P: A YEAR OF GRACE Ref: HP935

A collection of 66 hymns for the church year. The author has contributed individual notes for each text and the work represents the output from nine years of hymnwriting.

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Daw Jr, Carl P: TO SING GOD'S PRAISE Ref: HP921

A collection of 18 metrical canticles, all paraphrases from the pen of Carl Daw, Jr. These are set both to a traditional tune and a contemporary tune created specifically for each text.

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Dobson, Marjorie: MULTI-COLOURED MAZE Ref: B882

An anthology of drama, hymns, prayers and poems for worship and everyday living.

ISBN 0 85249 882 9

Price: £12.50

Dudley-Smith, Timothy: GREAT IS THE GLORY Ref: HP1752

Timothy Dudley-Smith completes the record of his hymnwriting journey up to his seventieth year with the fourth of his hymn collections, Great is the Glory, 36 hymns written between 1993 and 1996. A cumulative index of subjects and first lines covering all four books is included. The author's detailed commentaries on each of the texts offers fascinating reading for the many admirers of his work.

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Edwards, Rusty: THE YES OF THE HEART Ref: HP776

This is the first published collection of hymns from an emerging hymnwriter. Edwards not only writes texts but is a talented composer as well.

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Gaunt, Alan: ALWAYS FROM JOY Ref: B838

Hymn Texts 1991-1996

This second collection of Alan Gaunt's works contains 56 hymn texts written between 1991 and 1996, and includes 34 translations from the Welsh of hymnwriter Ann Griffiths. The title, taken from a sonnet by Vernon Watkins, reflects what Fred Kaan, in the introduction to this book, describes as the author's "fascination with eternal glory, coupled with the earth-boundness of his daily life, that enables him to choose words and use expressions that catch the inexpressible".
ISBN 0 85249 838 1

Price: £9.25

Gaunt, Alan: DELIGHT THAT NEVER DIES Ref: B880

Hymn Texts 1997-2003

The third collection of hymns by Alan Gaunt, Delight That Never Dies, brings together 97 new texts written between November 1996 and February 2003. In addition, there are 22 translations from the Danish of N F S Grundtvig (1783-1872), and nine other translations, including six from the Welsh of William Williams (Pantycelyn).
ISBN 0 85249 880 2

Price: £12.50

Gaunt, Alan: THE HYMN TEXTS OF ALAN GAUNT Ref: B801

Hymn Texts to 1991

The Reverend Alan Gaunt, a minister of the United Reformed Church, is particularly known for his hymn texts "We pray for peace" and "Lord Christ, we praise your sacrifice". This volume brings together his corpus of writing. He is strongly biblical in his approach and is prepared to look at Bible, faith and the contemporary world squarely, bringing them together in texts for use in worship. His work also includes some new translations from early texts intended for use by a new generation. Such new exposure to the original through a new translation can be salutary. The introduction is written by the Reverend Alan Luff.
ISBN 0 85249 801 2

Price: £9.25

Green, Fred Pratt: THE HYMNS AND BALLADS OF FRED PRATT GREEN Ref: B612

With commentary by Bernard Braley

This book, published in 1982, contains the texts of 209 hymns and ballads of this well-loved Methodist hymnwriter who died in 2000 and tells many of the stories behind them. The book has proved useful - not only as a book of reference - but as a book of excellent devotional material for the everyday reader. Some may recall Fred's "Hymn for the Nation" sung in churches up and down the land on the occasion of the Queen's Silver Jubilee - a good choice for the Golden Jubilee in 2002!

It is God who holds the nations in the hollow of his hand;
It is God whose light is shining in the darkness of the land;
It is God who builds his City on the Rock and not the sand:
May the living God be praised!

ISBN 0 85249 612 5

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Green, Fred Pratt: PARTNERS IN CREATION Ref: B878

Compiled by Bernard Braley

Published in the centenary year of his birth, the 166 texts in this book reflect Fred Pratt Green’s final thoughts on the definitive corpus of work that he wished should survive him. They incorporate amendments arising from sensitivity to inclusive language and other revisions, sanctioned either by Fred himself or by his literary executor and editor, Bernard Braley, who also supplied editorial notes and an anthology of quotations from Fred’s diaries.

Material is offered for a wide range of themes in worship, organised under the headings of God, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, The Church and The Christian Life. An addendum of tunes, many composed for the collection, adds to its versatile and practical application as a source book from one of the twentieth-century’s most influential hymnwriters.

ISBN 0 85249 878 0

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Green, Fred Pratt: THE LAST LAP Ref: B807

With his move to a Methodist Home for the Aged, Fred believed his writing days to be over. 'I knew that old age does nothing for the inspiration'. However, he was wrong, and this modest 'sequence in verse on the theme of old age' brings smiles and tears as Fred takes us into his new home and shares his, and the community's, hopes and fears, joys and sorrows in 53 'verses'; on themes as diverse as 'Sex in Old Age', Bonnets and Perms', and 'Going to Church in a Mini-bus'. All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the Methodist Home for the Aged.
ISBN 0 85249 807 1

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Green, Fred Pratt: SERVING GOD AND GOD'S CREATURES Ref: B865

A memorial volume to celebrate the life of Fred Pratt Green
Compiled by Bernard Braley

over 60 photographs and illustrations, many in colour

compiled from Fred Pratt Green's papers, photograph albums, scrapbooks and diaries

memories contributed by those who still remember him from as early as 1924

Fred's poems and sonnets addressed to his friends and other previously unpublished writing and many other sources

commissioned by The Pratt Green Trust

ISBN 0 85249 865 9

Price: £12.50

Griffiths, Ann: HYMNS AND LETTERS Ref: B854

Hymns translated by Alan Gaunt.
Music edited by Alan Luff.
Letters translated and edited by Alan Luff.
Introduction by Kathryn Jenkins.

"Though little known in her lifetime (1776-1805), Ann Griffiths is now widely regarded as being among the leading hymnwriters in Wales. She is a major figure whose word speaks strongly to a contemporary audience at a time of growing sensitivity to Christian spirituality in its many and varied forms, and to the often unacknowledged role of women in the life and history of the church. As a crystallising of the gifts of many people, this treasure of a book would be hard to rival." (Christoper Idle, News of Hymnody)
ISBN 0 85249 854 3

Price: £7.95

Kaan, Fred: THE ONLY EARTH WE KNOW Ref: B852

This is the definitive collection of the writing of Dr Fred Kaan. As Fred himself describes it 'One man's 100 hymns, give or "take five"... for today and (! dare to hope) for some of our tomorrows'.

Included in this volume is the text for Magnificat for a New Millenium, a major cantata with music by Knut Nystedt, commissioned for EXPO 2000, the World Exhibition in Hanover, Germany.

Many of the hymns in The Only Earth We Know have been revised in the light of insights gained into inclusive language. The volume also contains a rich diversity of familiar and specially-written settings, by a range of composers including Peter Churchill, Maggie Hamilton, Ron Klusmeir, Doreen Potter, Pamela Ward and Carlton R Young.
ISBN 0 85249 852 7

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Kaan, Fred: SONGS AND HYMNS FROM SWEDEN Ref: B440

His translations from Swedish set by Scandinavian composers. Edited by Anders Frostenson.

Price: £3.25

Murray, Shirley: FAITH MAKES THE SONG Ref: HP8189

Hymns. 1997-2002

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Murray, Shirley: TOUCH THE EARTH LIGHTLY Ref: HP8388

Hymns. 2003-2008

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Patterson, Joy F: COME, YOU PEOPLE OF THE PROMISE Ref: HP1628

Joy Patterson is a highly respected author and composer of both hymn texts and tunes. This is a collection of her best-known works as well as some new material published here for the first time. The foreword is by Carl P Daw Jr.

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Peacey, J R: GO FORTH FOR GOD Ref: HP1036

A remarkable collection of hymns published 20 years after the author's death. A significant British hymnwriter only now being discovered.

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Perry, Michael: SINGING TO GOD Ref: HP1207

Hymns and Songs 1965-1995. The author was Vicar of Tonbridge and Chairman of the Church Pastoral Society before his untimely death in 1996. He was well-known in the United Kingdom, not only from his texts, but through his contribution to hymnody and Christian worship as honorary Editorial Secretary and Company Secretary of Jubilate Hymns Ltd. Besides the 183 texts themselves, an author's commentary is provided for each, along with suggestions for appropriate tunes.

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Pratt, Andrew: BLINDED BY THE DAZZLE Ref: B840

This is the first collection of the work by an author whose tough, realistic view of our world today is tempered by his search for poetry and spiritual truth. Several of the texts have already found their way into anthologies and collections, including Pratt's controversial contributions to the under 7s songbook, Big Blue Planet. Topics selected at random from the book's Index of Themes includes AIDS/HIV, computer disks, deception, genocide, nurture and perfection.
ISBN 0 85249 840 3

Price: £9.25

Pratt, Andrew: WHATEVER NAME OR CREED Ref: B874

The 135 hymns and songs in Whatever Name or Creed are texts for today, reflections by Andrew Pratt on a variety of contemporary topics, illuminated in the searchlight of his insistent and uncompromising questioning.

A major theme, regarded from the author's own Christian viewpoint, is the relationship between faiths, especially as witnessed in their heritage of shared insights.

The introduction is by Geoffrey Duncan. New musical settings by composers including Peter Cutts, Hal H. Hopson, John R. Kleinheksel Sr and Ian Sharp complement many of the texts, while others are indexed with tunes suggested from a number of standard British and American hymnals.
ISBN 0 85249 874 8

Price: £11.25

Pratt, Andrew: RECLAIMING PRAISE Ref: B891

Hymns from a Spiritual Journey
In Reclaiming Praise, Andrew Pratt has charted a spiritual journey of hope and renewal that will inspire all those who sing his hymns to re-examine the roots of their faith or doubt.

Following on from his two previous collections, Blinded by the Dazzle and Whatever Name or Creed, the 150 new texts gathered here bring a personal and 21st-century perspective to a range of themes including covenant, creativity, faith and science, justice, lament and persecution, enfolding time past and time future in a pertinent message for the present.

ISBN 978-0-85249-891-0

Price: £12.50

Routley, Erik: OUR LIVES BE PRAISE Ref: HP389

The hymn tunes, carols and texts of Erik Routley. This anthology brings together 115 tunes and 33 literary texts. After a distinguished ministry in Great Britain, he spent ten years on the staff of Princeton University in the USA. Dr Carlton Young in an editor's introduction notes: "Both fledgling and noted composers of hymn tunes will benefit from a study of Routley's work, particularly his approach to solving the problems of setting a text's 'general mood' and providing new tunes for familiar texts, as well as unfamiliar poems sometimes written in odd metres."

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Wootton, Janet: EAGLES' WINGS AND LESSER THINGS Ref: B896

Hymns, prayers, drama and other resources for worship.

Powerfully connecting life and worship in hymns, prayers and liturgies, Eagles' Wings and Lesser Things is an inspiring collection of searching texts rooted in the pressing social and theological questions of our time. The five sections The Image of God, Jesus, People, Church and The World - revisit tradition with deep understanding, and with a creative relevance for the present and the future inseparable from the wide experience and compelling enthusiasm of the author.

ISBN 978 0 85249 896 5

Price: £10.00

Wren, Brian: BRING MANY NAMES Ref: HP747

This collection extends the availability of the corpus of Brian Wren's writing to include his work between 1986 and 1989, with associated music and notes.

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Wren, Brian: CHRIST OUR HOPE Ref: HP8222

*NEW NOVEMBER 2004*
A collection of 33 new hymns and 6 re-issues.

A CD of songs from the book is available here....

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Wren, Brian: FAITH RENEWED Ref: HP1482

This 1995 collection contains the best of the old and the best of the new. Dr Wren has updated a number of his earlier hymns and mixed these with the new texts he has written since 1992. All appear as poetry and with many new musical settings as well.

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Wren, Brian: NEW BEGINNINGS Ref: HP742

Here we have a further 33 texts from Brian Wren, the latest written in 1992, with associated music and notes. Brian Wren has a special concern that tunes should be good matches for words. In these collections, he provides a few himself, and introduces us to the creativity of many contemporary composers.

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Wren, Brian: PIECE TOGETHER PRAISE Ref: B835

Sensitive to the diversity of faith and worship in our modern world, Brian Wren here draws together the many strands of his experience as a hymn writer. Subtitled "A Theological Journey", and conceived with the needs of worship planners and private readers in mind, this innovative book pieces together its contents in the manner of the patterned fabric quilts traditional to the Dakota area of North America.

"I appreciated the author's suggestion of at least four ways to use his book: for worship and preaching, as a work of theology, for educating adults and youth, and for a personal spiritual journey." (Scotty Gray The Hymn)
ISBN 0 85249 835 7

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Wren, Brian: PRAISING A MYSTERY Ref: HP749

30 hymn texts written between 1983 and 1985 by this British-born author, together with his background notes and mostly with new musical settings.

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Wren, Brian and Heafield, Susan: TELL THE GOOD NEWS! Volume 2 Ref: PP003

Worship Songs. Easter: Before and After.

Tell the Good News! is a collection of 26 songs for worship centred around Easter, but grouped under the headings 'Gathering Songs', 'Following Jesus Christ', 'In the Power of the Spirit' and 'Trinity Praise'.

A CD of songs from the book is available here....

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Wren, Brian: VISIONS AND REVISIONS Ref: HP1590

Brian Wren relates the title of this recent collection to T.S. Eliot's description of the writing process as involving a hundred visions and revisions. The book has words and music for 33 new hymns written between 1993 and 1997, and seven earlier texts with new tunes worth sharing more widely. Five hymns are published here for the first time. The rest are also published as poems without music in Piece Together Praise.

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Wren, Brian and Heafield, Susan: WE CAN BE MESSENGERS. Volume 1 Ref: PP001

Worship Songs. Christmas before and After.

We Can Be Messengers is a collection of 15 songs for worship, from Thanksgiving to Epiphany. Designed for singing by congregations, We Can Be Messengers includes simple rounds, intergenerational songs with children in mind, songs for Advent in each lectionary year, and fresh songs for the Christmas season.

A CD of the songs from the book is available here....

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