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Love is the Key - Helen Williams SATB communion motet, words by Christina Rossetti.

Great is Your Faithfulness - Helen Williams Baritone solo, with organ and SATB, words from Lamentations 2 & 3, written for Passiontide.

Mary's Whys SATB with organ and descant, words by Sarah Lutton, music by Helen Williams, written for Mothering Sunday.

He Will Teach Us His Ways - Helen Williams SATB with organ, S & B soli, words from Psalm 121 and Micah 4, for Remembrance or general services.

Mellitus’ Challenge - Helen Williams SATB with organ, mezzo-soprano and tenor soli. Words from Bede with vocalizations. Written for a baptism.

Light Shineth in Darkness - Helen Williams SATB with viola, words from John 1, Tyndale's translation.

Thus Far Did I Come - Helen Williams SATB, words by John Bunyan, for Passiontide.

Psalm Chants - Helen Williams SATB, written before and after marriage.

Vitis Vera (the True Vine) - Nigel Williams SATB communion motet, words from the Vulgate, John 15.

Shouting in the Wilderness - Nigel Williams 3-part women’s or men’s voices, on the theme of John the Baptist.

Ut Queant Laxis - Nigel Williams SSATBB arrangement (mostly unison or 4-part) and translation of the Hymn to John the Baptist by Paul the Deacon.

Epsom Evening Service - Nigel Williams SATB, some divisi, with organ, S & A soli, Book of Common Prayer canticles. Nunc Dimittis also available arranged for soprano and alto soli and organ or piano accompaniment.

Responses - Nigel Williams ATB, harmonized version of the Book of Common Prayer responses for Morning and Evening Prayer, in which basses sing the traditional plainsong.

For Pentecost - Nigel Williams SATB with organ, words from Joel as quoted in Acts.

Baptism Song - Nigel Williams Unison. A simple, catchy tune to words about the baptism service.

Descants - Nigel Williams. Arrangements of Aberystwyth (Jesu, lover of my soul) and Third Mode Melody (the original Tallis harmonization plus a descant) for the words “How Shall I Sing that Majesty?”

Ein Feste Burg trumpet and organ, arranged as our wedding voluntary,
from a movement by Johann Philipp Krieger (after Martin Luther) in Capella Score Library. Also available for solo organ.

Typesetting done using Capella from Software Partners, versions 2 and 2000.

Saint or Commemoration	Date	Pieces
St Mary	25th March	Mary's Whys
St Mellitus	24th April	Mellitus' Challenge
Christina Rossetti	27th April	Love is the Key
Charles Wesley	24th May	Jesu, Lover of My Soul
Bede	25th May	Mellitus' Challenge
St John the Baptist	24th June (birth) 29th August (beheading)	Hymn to John the Baptist Shouting in the Wilderness
St Peter	29th June	Love is the Key
John Henry Newman	11th August	Lead, Kindly Light
John Bunyan	30th August	Thus Far Did I Come
St Jerome	30th September	Vitis Vera Shouting in the Wilderness
William Tyndale	6th October	Light Shineth in Darkness
Martin Luther	31st October	Ein Feste Burg
St John the Evangelist	27th December	Light Shineth in Darkness

Season or Service	Piece
Baptism	Mellitus' Challenge Baptism Song Shouting in the Wilderness
Holy Communion	Love is the Key Thus Far Did I Come Vitis Vera Mellitus' Challenge
Ordination	Love is the Key
Marriage	Love is the Key
Condolence	Great is Your Faithfulness
Morning	Responses Psalm Chants
Evening	Epsom Evening Service Responses Psalm Chants Lead, Kindly Light
Advent	Mary's Whys Shouting in the Wilderness
Christmas	Light Shineth in Darkness
Epiphany	Third Mode Descant
Candlemas	Nunc Dimittis
Mothering Sunday	Mary's Whys
Lent	Jesu, Lover of My Soul
Passiontide	Thus Far Did I Come Great is Your Faithfulness
Easter	Love is the Key
Pentecost	for Pentecost
Trinity	Third Mode Descant
Remembrance	He Will Teach Us His Ways