Thurlow Weed

Life

Thurlow Weed

Born: 3 March 1966

Biography

Rt. Rev'd Thurlow Weed is a composer and organist living in Lancaster, Ohio. He serves as organist and composer-in-residence at St Johns' Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Ohio, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Logan, Ohio.

Before moving to Ohio, he had lived his entire life in Key West, Florida, where his father was the minister of a small Bahamian Presbyterian congregation. His mother was native Dutch, born in 's-Gravenhage (The Hague), Netherlands. He was confirmed as an Episcopalian at St. Paul's Church in Key West and served there in numerous capacities, including cantor and sub-organist. Concurrently, he served as Minister of Music at St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Key West), a small Bahamian Anglo-Catholic parish. He is Bishop of the Diocese of the West of the Progressive Episcopal Church.

Bishop Weed is the composer of over 130 hymn tunes, mostly in the traditional English style. In addition, he has composed an English language Missa Brevis for St. Paul's Church in Key West, and he has completed a Latin Missa Solemnis for general use in Roman and Anglo-Catholic parishes. Compositions also include shape note (Sacred Harp) hymns, and hymns in the English "West Gallery" style. A number of hymn descants and Anglican chants are also available.

Some additional music is available for purchase at Sheet Music Plus [1].

He shares his home with two pianos, a Well-tempered pipe organ, and four cats. Some of the cats occasionally strive for musicianship by creating aleatoric music on a piano if the key cover is accidentally left open.

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A brief note to clarify any copyright questions: While I do retain a personal copyright for all my compositions, they may be freely copied, distributed, performed, and recorded, but may not be sold. I wrote the music to be sung and enjoyed. Soli Deo Gloria!

This page includes separate sections for hymns by living authors, Michael Morgan, Michael Hudson, and Christopher L. Webber. The hymn-writers have given their kind permission for me to list settings of their hymns here on my CPDL page. These hymns may be freely used with the following stipulations: 1) the © information is included on all copies, and 2) the editions may not be sold.

For any questions regarding publication of any hymns or other music published here, the composer may be contacted via email at vicar@stlukepec.org.

List of choral works

• For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Thurlow Weed compositions

Masses Missa Brevis Missa Solemnis Communion Service in C Communion Service in Eb Communion Service in D minor

Liturgical Music Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Tantum Ergo O Salutaris Hostia Introits & Ostinati Call to Prayer Ecce Sacerdos Magnus O come, let us worship Verbum caro factum est We are your children Anglican Chants Double in C minor Double in Bb Double in F Simplified Double in Ab Simplified Double in D minor Simplified Double in Eb Simplified Single in F Single in F minor Simplified Single in Eb Double No.6 in G minor Psalm 150

Anthems & Carols O Be Ye Joyful in the Lord Lo, how a rose e'er blooming

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Hymns

New harmonisations for familiar texts.

Tunes Gospel Feast Old Lancaster Mount Pleasant   Descants  All texts & harmonisations are taken from "The Hymnal 1982" of the Episcopal Church, unless otherwise noted. Aurelia Blaenhafren Crimond Cwm Rhondda Duke Street Du Lebensbrot Herr Jesus Christ Easter Hymn Ein feste burg Es flog ein kleins Waldvögelein Grosser Gott Hanover Hosanna Houston Hyfrydol Hymn to Joy Lasst uns erfreuen Laudate dominum Leoni Mannheim Maryton Morning Light Munich National hymn Nicaea St Anne St Denio St Dunstan's Truro Shape Notes & Psalter "Sacred Harp" See also "What signs will carry God (shape-note)" under Michael Hudson hymns. The Lord will happiness divine Forest Rose OV Reber's Ground "Psalter/West Gallery Music" Psalm 1 Psalm 2 Psalm 19 Psalm 47 Psalm 81 NV Psalm 112 Psalm 117 Zion, Awake, Thy Strength Renew Christ is risen from the dead Come Join, Ye Saints Let us haste to Bethlehem While shepherds watched their flocks

Harmonisations  Many of these harmonisations have the Finale file included to facilitate hymn writers adding their own texts. I only request that if you do so, please send me an email letting me know that you are using my tune, and what text you are using. As a hymn composer, it is always interesting to learn what words my tunes are being paired with. Abyssinian Addington Aldersgate New Aldwinkle Allen's Church Bremerhaven Bremerton Brockhall Bulwick Byefield Castle Ashby Chelveston Clarington Cottingham Cransley Cropredy Bridge Daventry Doddington Farthingstone Guilsborough Grendon Hannington Hardingstone Harrowden Helmdon Irchester Kelmarsh Kislingbury Lindisfarne Maple Street Mears Ashby Mount Pleasant Mowsley New Fairfield Old Lancaster Piddlehinton (St Mary's) Podington Ravensthorpe Rothwell Rushden Standing Stone Staverton Sudborough Threddingworth Titchmarsh Twywell Upperville Warum toben die Heiden Wigsthorpe Wymington

Hymns (tune, harmony & words) General As the dew from heav'n distilling Children Stand on Life's Rough Way Christ for the world we sing Come, Thou Fount of every blessing Father of heaven, whose love profound Lord, We Come Before Thee Now O Lamb of God, still keep me Take Time to be Holy To God, Our Never-Failing Strength Lent Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days Easter Come, ye faithful, raise the strain O sons and daughters, let us sing! Communion Come, sinners, to the Gospel feast Trinity We Give Immortal Praise (Trinity) Funeral hymns Sleep, sleep, my child HYMNS IN LATIN O filii et filiae (Latin version of O sons and daughters, let us sing!) Click here to search for this composer on CPDL Michael Morgan hymns This is a separate collection of hymn settings using the texts of hymn-writer Michael Morgan. Both composer and author grant free use of these arrangements. They may be freely printed, copied, and shared. No further permissions are required. Soli Deo Gloria!   "Hymns" Bread of Life, we pray you Come, celebrate the gift divine Come, Jesus, Come! Give thanks unto our gracious God Hymn for Labor Day In God my faith is founded Magnificat O blest are they Strengthen us, O God, for service "Psalms" Psalm 2 Why do nations rage together Psalm 6 Psalm 108 My heart, O God, is now attuned

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Michael Hudson hymns

This is a separate collection of hymn settings using the texts of hymn-writer Michael Hudson. Both composer and author grant free use of these arrangements. They may be freely printed, copied, and shared. Texts are taken from "Songs for the Cycle" published by Church Publishing Inc. (ISBN 0-89869-419-1) All texts are © 2004 Michael Hudson and are used here with his permission. Both author and composer grant free use of these hymns.

Each hymn is a meditation on a particular text of the liturgical year according to the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). Each hymn's PDF includes the Sunday, Lectionary Year, and Scripture source.

The number preceding each entry is the Sunday number of that particular liturgical season.

Year A Advent 3 We wait for Christ, our Advent Light Christmas Beneath a dark familiar sky Epiphany God gave a star to guide the wise 3 A silence which was broken Lent 1 Lead us not into temptation 2 A font evokes the womb of God Ordinary Time P6 Our better prayers begin as love P7 We need not shrink in time of trial P8 There is a circle like a crown P9 There is a wisdom that betrays the soul P10 God is extravagant with the seed P11 The roots of all things interweave P13 When circumstances drain the soul P24 The foolish set a snare for God P26 There is a hope of turning P28 To think like Jesus is to risk P29 O Jesus, we have tried to make you King P29 O Jesus, we have tried to make you King (hymn version)

Year B Advent 1 A patient presence broods 2 When the silence takes a voice 3 In the winter's early darkness 4 Countless prayers of faithful people Christmas 1 Through the silence sounds a word 2 A family sleeps Epiphany 1 Let rain come down today 2 It was a season for the soul to wait 3 He might have stayed 4 The Sabbath called its children 5 The grace of God cannot be fixed 6 Silence is a way of holding 7 Life presents the puzzles 8 Today we are gathered Last Epiphany/Transfiguration Every pilgrim has a mountain Lent 1 Desert Wind, find us again 2 If we desire a deeper life 3 What signs will carry God (shape-note) 3 What signs will carry God (hymn) 4 Jesus watched us from a mountain 5 Fall to the earth Palm Sunday ABC We raise our branches high today Easter Three women walk alone 2 ABC I have not seen 3 Present, though unlooked for 4 David was a daring shepherd

Year C Epiphany 1 Something stirs Easter 6 The peace of Christ pervades us Ordinary Time P12 God of eager conversation

Christopher L. Webber hymns

This is a separate collection of hymns and Psalms with texts by American hymn writer Christopher L. Webber. His Psalter texts are published in A New Metrical Psalter: Revised Common Lectionary Edition, Church Publishing Incorporated, 2008. Hymn texts are from an as-yet (2016) unpublished collection. All texts are used here with the author's permission, and the settings may be freely downloaded and used for congregational worship, ensuring that the proper copyright permission is included.

Hymns Ashes alone Lord of the Covenant

Psalms Psalm 1 (b) Psalm 130

Canticles Jubilate Deo Magnificat II Nunc Dimittis II Phos hilaron II Te Deum Venite (Rite II)

Publications

"Glory to God" Presbyterian hymnal,[2] published 2013.
ISBN-10: 0664238963
ISBN-13: 978-0664238964

Includes hymn tune Guilsborough.

External links

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?q=thurlow+weed