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)

Level of challenge: Easy
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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
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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
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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)

Level of challenge: Moderately easy
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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)

Level of challenge: Moderately easy
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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
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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)

Level of challenge: Easy
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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
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