sentences:  As a composer, Ives' work consists mainly of sacred and secular music for choir, much of it written for the liturgy at Magdalen College, Oxford.His "Canterbury Te Deum" (1991) for SATB and brass quintet was commissioned for the enthronement of George Carey as Archbishop of Canterbury.He was commissioned to compose the centre-piece anthem, "The Gift of Grace", for the National Commemoration Service for the Abolition of Slavery held in Westminster Abbey in March 2007.