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New Compositions

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At many annual singings and conventions, singers who are also composers pass out photocopies of new songs and those present have the opportunity to sing with the composer's leading--obviously not a possibility with so many tunes in the books (but imagine what it would be like to have William Billings or William Walker--or Benjamin Franklin White--standing in the center of the square, arm sawing the air!) Some of these tunes will
pass away, mere mentions in the minutes books, but others will see inclusion in new editions of the songbooks which are still growing and changing, and become favorites of singers from Hoboken to Hennepin County, and from Louisiana to Lennoxville (Que.)

I am building this page through solicitations, but if you have one tune or a few and wouldn't mind my setting them as MIDI files, don't be shy about contacting me! If your tune is already in digital form and can be sent as an attachment, please do so. If you have only hard copy and do not have a way to send over the Internet, let me know and I will provide you a snail-mail address to which to mail them.

David Wright
David graduated from Oberlin College this spring, 2000. He has four compositions available elsewhere online in score. Here they are as instrumentals.

Durango

Set to When I survey the wondrous cross

Every Grace

Set to My Savior and my King

Old Barrows

Set to Thy works of glory, mighty Lord

York

Set to My dear Redeemer and my Lord

Richard Popp
Richard is by now an old hand at the work
of composition. His arrangement of Salem
from The Southern Harmony appears in Karen Willard's American Christmas Harp.
No longer a Chicagoan, he continues to
compose in the wilds of South Dakota.

Pomerania

Set to When peace, like a river

Seeley

Set to The faithless world promiscuous grows

Michael L. Moore
Since creating the New Compositions page in July, 2000, I have begun composing myself. I have had the pleasure of hearing several of my pieces sung, and hope in time to introduce some of them at conventions.

Satilla. C.M.D.

My first composition, which David Lee graciously reviewed. Set to Newton's Poor sinners! Little do they think

New Hartford. C.M.

Set to Watts's O the delights, the heav'nly joys

Shell Rock. L.M.

Set to Watts's Let the sev'nth angel sound on high

Three Hundred Fifty-One. L.M.

Set to Eternity is just at hand! from Lloyd's Primitive Hymns

The Great White Throne

Set to The final trump we soon shall hear, from Peter D. Myer's Zion Songster, 1829

Roxbury. L.M.D.

Set to Newton's The Saviour calls his people sheep