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Thread #26348   Message #316527
Posted By: Burke
11-Oct-00 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns
Subject: RE: Help: YOUR Favorite Hymns
If your favorites list runs to over 100, can they still be considered favorites?

Here a few in the Episcopal Hymnal 1st line followed by tune name if I know it:
What wondrous love is this (Wondrous Love (try the version that puts the melody in the tenor))
All Hail the power of Jesus name (Coronation or Diadem, although I don't think Diadem is in the hymnal)
Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)
Guide me, oh Thou great Jehovah (Cum Rwanda)
My Shepherd will supply my need
Rock of ages (Toplady)

Some treasures in the Episcopal Hymnal not necessarily favorites:
When Jacob with travel was weary one day (Jacob's vision)
tune: Church's Desolation (I forget the words in the hymnal because the Sacred Harp words are different)

Sacred Harp favorites:
Cambridge or anything else written William Cowper including There is a fountain filled with Blood
Amsterdam
Expression
Greenfields
Hallelujah

I guess I better stop now, but I left out the fuging tunes.

Praise, if your word books list meters you can do what's been done as long as English metrical hymns have been around, find a tune with the same meter that you like & use the new words.

I'd love to come to your party, but for me it would have to last a couple of days. Even in a 2 day Sacred Harp convention with @80 per day and few repeats, there are favorties we don't get to.

Don't know how far you are from Ithaca, but I'll renew the invite I made a while back to come to our convention on Friday evening & all day Saturday. Come for as much or as little as you have time for.

The 23rd Psalm has many metrical versions: My Shepherd will supply my need; The King of Love my shepherd is; The Lord's my Shepherd I'll not want. I think there are more, but I can't come up with anymore right now.