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Thread #51400   Message #783107
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
13-Sep-02 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: Help: Amazing Grace/ House of the Rising Sun
Subject: RE: Help: Amazing Grace/ House of the Rising Sun
There are at least a hundred tunes in the Scottish Psalmody which will fit Amazing Grace.

The metrical Psalms are all either in common metre (EG Psalm 23 "The Lord is My Shepherd") long metre (eg Psalm 100 "All people that on Earth do Dwell") (or short metre( eg Psalm 57)

Common metre is, as one would expect, the most common so any common metre psalm tune will fit Amazing Grace, as the metre is the same as the common metre psalms. The tune Crimond to whuch the 23rd Psalm is usually sung would fit nicely.

Murray