Creative Last Verses – Booklet 6: Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms

Description

Reharmonisations and descants for last verses of well-known hymns.

Weddings
1. For the beauty of the earth– Lucerna Laudoniae
2. Love divine, all loves excelling– Blaenwern
3. Love divine, all loves excelling– Hyfrydol

Funerals
4. All my hope on God is founded – Michael
5. Be still my soul– Finlandia

6. Farewell! We come to send you on the way – Finlandia
7. Guide me, O my great redeemer– Cwm Rhondda
8. Jesus, lover of my soul– Aberystwyth
9. The day Thou gavest Lord is ended– St Clement
10. The king of love my shepherd is– Dominus Regit Me
11. The Lord’s my shepherd – Crimond
Baptisms
12. New child of God – Herongate
13. Now thank we all our God – Nun danket Alle Gott

“Excellent arrangements” – Gerre Hancock, former organist, Saint Thomas’ Church, New York City

“Inventive harmonies” – Anne Marsden Thomas, noted English organist and organ teacher

“Classy and elegant” – Robert Boughen, former organist and choir director, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane

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Creative Last Verses – Booklet 6: Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms