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Thread #149765 Message #3486600
Posted By: GUEST,Blandiver
05-Mar-13 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: Hymns - Unintelligible?
Subject: RE: Hymns - Unintelligible?
I'm not religious but the music's traditional.
Hmmmmm. Hymns were one of the few examples of the 1954 Rule of music being taken up by the community & remaining unchanged, and NOT, therefore, traditional. Not that I agree. There is certainly an Idiomatic Tradition of hymn-making, and more popular religious music in general, such as psalmody & Mass settings, including the Folk Mass in its various forms, some of which are more depressingly happy-clappy than others. I'm a big fan of Gelineau's pop-psalmody, based (supposedly) on ancient Hebrew modality, but beguilingly infectious even so.