List of selected HYMN TUNES
by Christopher Maxim
Title
 Genre
Instruments/ Voices
 Date of Composition
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St Teilo

(87 87 87)
 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB 1995

Composed for the words ‘Lord of beauty, thine the splendour’ (C. A. Alington)

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Mackintosh

(76 76 D)		 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB 1996

Composed for the words ‘Light of the minds that know him’ (Timothy Dudley-Smith, based on a prayer of St Augustine of Hippo)

Level of challenge: Easy		 Link to Sibelius
Three Hymns to Our Lady

Cathays

(LM)



Glan Ely

(CM)



 Mirfield

(66 66)



 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB 1997

Composed for the words ‘O glorious maid, exalted far’ (Venantius Fortunatus, tr. Percy Dearmer)

Level of challenge: Moderately easy



Composed for the words ‘Shall we not love thee, Mother dear?’ (H. W. Baker)

Level of challenge: Very easy



Composed for the words ‘Ave, maris Stella’/‘Hail, O star that pointest’ (Latin, tr. Athelstan Riley)

Level of challenge: Very easy

Mirfield led to the commissioning of Croes Eneurys and Falcon Way

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Acton Park

(SM)		 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB 1998 Composed for the hymn 'The Son of God proclaim, the Lord of time and space', by Basil Bridge (no.328 in Common Worship).

Level of challenge: Easy		 Link to Sibelius
Croes Eneurys

(87 87 D)		 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB 1999

Composed for the words ‘Wonder! wonder to the angels’ (Ann Griffiths, tr. Alan Gaunt)

Commissioned for publication in The Hymns and Letters of Ann Griffiths (Stainer & Bell, 2000)

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Falcon Way

(87 87 D)		 Choral/sacred/hymn

 SATB

 1999
 Composed for the words ‘Though it crosses human nature’ (Ann Griffiths, tr. Alan Gaunt)

Commissioned for publication in The Hymns and Letters of Ann Griffiths (Stainer & Bell, 2000)

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Thurstaston

 (DCM)		 Choral/sacred/hymn Unison voices, organ/piano, optional descant 2004 Composed for the words ‘The stars shone sown to welcome Christ’ (Marjorie Dobson)

Commissioned for publication in Multicoloured Maze (Stainer & Bell, 2004)

Level of challenge: Moderately easy		 Buy It
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My Bonnie lies over the ocean

(98 98 + Chorus)		 Choral/sacred/hymn Unison voices, organ/piano 2004 Composed for the words ‘When Peter stepped out on the water’ (Marjorie Dobson)

Commissioned for publication in Multicoloured Maze (Stainer & Bell, 2004)

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Woodbury

(LM)		 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB, optional descant 2005 Composed for words by the Reverend Timothy Hunt, Chaplain of Blundells School

Level of challenge: Easy		 Link to Sibelius
Cloth Fair

(87 87)		 Choral/sacred/hymn SATB, optional descant 2009 Composed for the words 'There's a wideness in God's mercy' by F. W. Faber

Level of challenge: Easy		 Link to Sibelius

Scully    

68 888

and Alleluyas

 Choral/Sacred/Hymn Unison voices (optional SATB for Alleluyas), organ 2010

Composed for the words 'Jesus Christ is risen: the feast, good Christians, therefore keep' by G. R. Woodward (based on Victimae Paschali), at the request of the Reverend Kevin Scully, Rector of Bethnal Green, and first sung at St Matthew's Parish Church, Bethnal Green on Easter Day, 2010.

Level of challenge: Easy

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