Thurlow Weed
Life
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. He also occasionally plays the Mobile Millennium Carillon for events around Lancaster. This is the largest and heaviest of three travelling carillons in North America; it was cast by Koningklijk Eijsbouts in the Netherlands, and is based in nearby Sugar Grove.
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 is native Dutch, and was 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. At the same time, 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, and also affiliated with the Progressive Christian Alliance.
Bishop Weed is the composer of over 70 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 eight cats. Some of the cats occasionally strive for musicianship by creating aleatoric music on a piano if the key cover is accidentally left open.
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 and Michael Hudson. Both hymn-writers have given their kind permission for me to list settings of their hymns here on my CPDL page.
List of choral works
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Masses |
Liturgical Music
Introits & Ostinati Doxologies
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Anthems & Carols |
Hymns
New harmonisations for familiar texts.
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 Christmas Epiphany Lent Ordinary Time |
Year B Advent
Christmas
Epiphany
Last Epiphany/Transfiguration Lent
Palm Sunday ABC Easter
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Year C Epiphany
Easter |
Christopher L. Webber hymns
Publications
"Glory to God" Presbyterian hymnal,[2] published 2013.
ISBN-10: 0664238963
ISBN-13: 978-0664238964
Includes hymn tune Guilsborough.