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CHRISTPRAISE RAY

CHRISTPRAISE RAY

Composer: Carol Doran (1984)
Published in 11 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Carol Doran

Carol Doran was a musician, author, scholar, loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She was also a woman of unwavering faith, integrity, kindness, curiosity, beauty, good humor, and fearlessness who inspired those she loved and who loved her so much in return. Carol’s early exposure to the study of music became a lifelong passion and professional dedication as she went on to earn a Doctor of Music Arts degree in Church Music and Organ at The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Dr. Doran taught and was a professor of Music and Liturgy at Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall in Rochester, New York; Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia; the School of Theology at Boston University; Episcopal Divinity Scho… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: CHRISTPRAISE RAY
Composer: Carol Doran (1984)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Incipit: 15546 54321 43256
Key: F Major
Copyright: Text and Music: © 1984, Oxford University Press, Inc. From New Hymns for the Lectionary, by permission of the publisher.

Texts

O Praise the Gracious Power

O praise the gracious power That tumbles walls of fear
And gathers in one house of faith All strangers far and near:
We praise You, Christ! Your cross has made us one!

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Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Organ Volume 7: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 640 - 704
    Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Mark Weiler; Wayne L. Wold
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2007) pp. 651
  • Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Piano Volume 7: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 640 - 704
    Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Mark Weiler; Aaron David Miller
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2007) pp. 651

Organ Solo

  • Five Hymn Preludes for Organ
    Composer/Editor Philip Gehring
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2007) pp. 8
  • Child of the Light: Preludes on Hymntunes by Women
    Composer/Editors Wayne L. Wold; Carol Doran
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1998) pp. 13

Instances

Instances (1 - 11 of 11)

Common Praise (1998) #396

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #651

Hymnal Supplement II #54

Hymnal #111

Audio

Sing! A New Creation #35

The Covenant Hymnal #305

The New Century Hymnal #54

The Presbyterian Hymnal #471

Voices Together #87

Audio

Voices United #397

With One Voice #750

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