Welcome to Anthem 7 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to [email protected]. If you are listening to this episode as soon as it’s released in February 2024, I am in Devon with (part of)  my family. I did manage to complete Anthem 7 before I went though, as you’ll hear. After last week’s atonal piece, I decided to go the other way. I’ve wanted to have a go at working from existing models for a long time so I chose ‘O taste and see’ by Vaughan Williams because of its brevity and simplicity of structure. I thought it would be interesting to see if I could come up with my own version of organ introduction, simple but beautiful treble solo and canon-type chorus parts. If you’re wondering what i mean by canon, Wikipedia defines it like this: “A canon is a piece [made up of] of voices (or instrumental parts) that sing or play the same music starting at different times. A round is a type of canon, but in a round each voice, when it finishes, can start at the beginning again so that the piece can go “round and round”.” ‘O taste and see’ isn’t a strict canon in the way something like Pachelbel’s Canon is - it just uses part of the technique. Words for Anthem 7: O come, let us worship, and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker For he is the Lord and we are the people and the sheep of his hand. Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation

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