New setting. Score available via MusicaNeo.com and Sheet Music Plus.

July 2021

O Magnum Mysterium

A piece written for string quartet in memory of my cousin who passed away 2021. The score & parts are available from Sheet MusicPlus.com (see Margaret Woodley)

Memoriam For Lynn (string quartet)

My Requiem setting in 9 Movements for SATB Choir, Tenor and Soprano soloists. Organ accompaniment with 1 Tubular Bell and 2 Timps drums.
The libretto uses sections of the standard Latin Requiem Mass interspersed with my settings/arrangement of English funeral hymns; there is also the option of a little congregational participation in singing a short hymn refrain plus 2 verses of Abide With Me.
1. Introitus and Kyrie Eleison
2. Now Thy Earthly Work Be Done
3. Pie Jesu & Agnus Dei
4. For Souls Departed
5. Libera Me
6. Lux Aeterna
7. Lighten Our Darkness
8. In Paradisum & Abide with Me
9. Requiem Aeternam

Requiem Towards the Light - in 9 movements

A short, gentle piece for organ mauals, premiered on YouTube 19 Nov 2022.      Score available on MusicaNeo.com and SheetMusicDirect.com

Andante Tranquillo (organ manuals)

My arrangement for String Quintet of my recently written piece for organ manuals (also found here on Soundcloud).

Andante Tranquillo (arr'd for Strings)

My setting of the text by Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650).
This excellent recording is by Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Voices made in 2023

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears (SATB)

Arrangement for piano trio of my own original organ piece. piano/violin/cello.

Andante Tranquillo (arr'd for Piano Trio)

 New tune for carol It Came Upon A Midnight Clear. Score download from MusicaNeo.com or SheetMusicDirect.com.

Midnight Clear - SATB & Organ (Xmas carol)

Setting for 6 voices: SSATTB. Sung here by @Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir Virtual Singers.
SCORE from MusicaNeo.com and Sheet Music Plus.com.

Text adapted by M Simmonds :
Oh, eternal God,
Source of all blessing;
We do humbly repent our most grievous sins,
And with our hearts we forgive those that do us wrong.
And the Lord said : " I have pardoned in accordance with your words".
Our eternal God,
Source of all blessing.
Blessed are you, Lord our God,
King of the heavens,
Who has granted us life, sustained us
And brought us unto this eventide.  Amen

Source Of All Blessing

My setting of my own text, slightly updating traditional Christmas carol texts. Recorded here by @Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir Virtual Singers January 2024.
Score available from NusicaNeo,com  and SheetMusicPlus / Direct.com

A Carol For The World

My second setting of the Evening Canticles - SATB/organ manuals.
An easy but effective setting for church choirs.

Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis (2nd Service  2023)

A short piece for organ written in 5/4 time.

Organ Prelude  (2024)

Oct 2019 update - the score is now published by Paraclete Press.

Preces &  Responses In F

A new harmonisation of this well known carol tune

In the Bleak Midwinter

My setting of the poem of same title by Herbert Asquith, for unaccompanied choir.
A ship sails up to Bideford;
Upon a western breeze,
Mast by mast, sail over sail,
She rises from the seas,
And sights the hills of Devon
And the misty English trees.
 
She comes from Eastern islands;
The sun is in her hold;
She bears the fruit of Jaffa,
Dates, oranges and gold;
 
She brings the silk of China,
And bales of Persian dyes,
And birds with sparkling feathers
And snakes with diamond eyes.
 
She’s gliding in the starlight
As white as any gull;
The east is gliding with her
In the shadows of her hull.
 
A ship sails up to Bideford;
Upon a western breeze,
With fruits of Eastern summers
She rises from the seas,
And sights the hills of Devon
And the misty English trees.

A Ship Sails Up To Bideford SATB a.c.

My original compositions are my copyright. Scores available on request by messaging me here, or available on Sheet Music Plus or Musica Neo (some items free) websites. Liturgical works (x2) are published by Paraclete Press.

Margaret Simmonds

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