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GUEST,EK Anne Bible School songs (100* d) RE: Bible School songs 04 Sep 09


Thanks, Joe, for the grand gospel version of Yield Not to Temptation - though it's certainly more of a "performance" than would have been expected in a Presbyterian country like mine! Here, we were encouraged to keep together and harmonies were unheard of, except for church and other choirs, so our version was like your first link, though perhaps a little beefier in tempo.
Harking back to a previous post, we also sang at primary school and I remember having to learn quite a lot of psalms and paraphrases by heart, to be sung in unison without benefit of piano accompaniment. Many years later I asked my teacher (from when I was aged 10 and 11) how she had managed to do this as she was not a music specialist, and she could remember the singing but not how we had acquired the songs!
These included - the 23rd psalm (to tune Crimond); the Old Hundredth (All People that on Earth Do Dwell); paraphrase 2 (O God of Bethel); psalm 148 (The Lord of Heaven Confess) - which had a difficult but glorious tune; paraphrase 18 (Behold! The Mountain of the Lord); and my own favourite - psalm 121, with its spare melody and convoluted syntax.

Amazing how these things still stick with an atheist after more than fifty years...


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