Songs to sing

 
 

 

Alleluia Aotearoa Why I like it      (Hilary Refveim)
Music and song
The role of hymns in worship tomorrow   (Colin Gibson)
The New Zealand landscape in our hymns
The  Vicar of Dibley  theme et al.
Music in the Air:  a bi-annual journal edited by John Thornley
New songs and hymns
	Birthday carol     What gift for the infant Christ? Carol for a hard winter     Christ comes again Clothe the body in the rainbow robes of joy     We're the chorus,  we're the band Go,  so my parables live     A sung dismissal,  by Marion Kitchingman and Malcolm Gould Here to celebrate     Hang out the hallelujahs! I sing the grace of God within you,     I know that grace within my soul It all depends     Faith for the journey Kindness     A two-part song for a young singing group Kingdom talk     A talk-song based on  The Labourers in the Vineyard Let there be respect for the earth     Musical setting for the millennial resolution of Churches Together in England. Lord Jesus,  look on this we do     For the opening of a chapel Lord, pull the stopper       Help me to change,  and change with me      (Colin Gibson) Lord,  turn our grieving into grace     by Shirley Erena Murray and Colin Gibson Love is a miracle     Let's spread more miracles and wonders around Mary's Song     A version of the Magnificat,  by Marion Kitchingman and Malcolm Gould May the anger of Christ be mine     We too should be angry Nothing is lost on the breath of God     God's breath is love,  and that love will remain Rainbow people     The inclusiveness of the gospel Rainbow steeple     for all reconciling churches everywhere There's a wideness in God's mercy     An updated version of the great hymn by FW Faber These hills     Our care,  and our prayer Voices of the earth     If we only plunder,  if we always blunder,     we may lose the wonder,  silence all the voices of the earth. We are many,  we are one     Colin Gibson's hymn,  written for the incoming President    of the Methodist Church of NZ in 1998,  and widely used    at the November 1998 national Conference. We would be yes-sayers     By Marion Kitchingman and Malcolm Gould When angels rove the restless skies     A Christmas song by Colin Gibson     The scores provided with these songs are GIF images,  easily off-loaded,  and adaptable for incorporation as a graphic in a wordprocessor file.   Except where a commercial firm's copyright is acknowledged,  permission is given to copy this material for non-commercial use in a church or similar setting.

 

Music and song

New Zealand is fortunate to possess a community of lively and skilled hymn writers and composers.   Eminent among these is Professor Colin Gibson (professor of English at Otago University) who is organist and choirmaster of our Mornington congregation,  and who composed most of the hymns presented here.

Collections of Colin's hymns and songs have been published in Britain and in the United States.
He is a major contributor to three compilations produced by the New Zealand Hymn Book Trust.
The details are:

• Singing Love   -   New Hymns,  Songs,  and Carols for Today's Church
  Collins,  London,  1988

• Reading the Signature   -   New Hymns and Songs by Colin Gibson
  Hope Publishing Co,  Carol Stream Illinois,  1994

• Songs for a Rainbow People   -   New hymns and songs by Colin Gibson
  Hope Publishing Co,  Carol Stream Illinois,  1998

• Alleluia Aotearoa   -   Hymns and songs for all churches
  The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust Inc,  PO Box 2011,
  Raumati Beach,  New Zealand,  1993 

• Carol our Christmas   -   A Book of New Zealand Carols
  The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust Inc,  PO Box 2011,
  Raumati Beach,  New Zealand,  1996

• faith forever singing   -   New Zealand Hymns and Songs for a New Day
  The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust Inc,  PO Box 2011,
  Raumati Beach,  New Zealand,  2000

Colin Gibson's e-mail address is:  colin.gibson@clear.net.nz

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