25 Feb 98 - 12:39 AM (#22177) Subject: Songs of Faith From: I am looking for traditional English(and to a lesser extent Irish & Scottish) folk hymns, songs of faith, ritual songs, etc. that would be great for church settings, youth groups, etc. Interested in songs, lyrics, sources of songs, personal favorites, etc. All ideas are welcome. I have a good repertoire of Midwinter & Christmas stuff but am looking for songs that can be sung anytime. |
25 Feb 98 - 01:46 PM (#22220) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Try this site: http://hot.virtual-pc.com/guitar/mainframe.htm |
25 Feb 98 - 01:50 PM (#22221) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: TRY THIS: Click on the FORUM SEARCH BLOCK...
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25 Feb 98 - 04:03 PM (#22232) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Joe Offer Hi - Take a look in the BACK pages of hymnals from most of the mainstream churches, and look for the sources of hymns. The older the hymnal, the better. You can find some real gems in the Methodist and Episcopalian and Lutheran hymnals. One favorite of mine that was discussed in another thread is "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say," which has the same tune as "Star of County Down." I made lots of points with our Irish-born priest last Sunday by singing that. Maybe now would be a good time to hit him up for more money to buy music... -Joe Offer- |
25 Feb 98 - 05:57 PM (#22252) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Marc B To Joe, Thanks for the method. As it happens I spent a good bit of time today doing exactly as you suggested with my Methodist and Episcopal hymnals. God bless Ralph Vaughn Williams. A number of tunes to "Star of County Down" and "Forest Green" I should have mentioned that I was familiar with that source and am hoping for things beyond what's in the hymnals. But tonight I'm going through my "old" hymnals! I led a piece at Christmas from the Methodist hymnal called "I Sing a Song of Bethlehem" also to the tune of County Down. Good song. God bless. Marc |
25 Feb 98 - 06:13 PM (#22257) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: BAZ Joe you had better luck than I did on Sunday. When my wife and I sang I Heard The Voice of Jesus Say the Organist complained that I'd changed the tune slightly.I did say that I thought it might be the new Methodist Hymn book that had changed the tune. By the way at Christmas you could try O Little town of Bethlehem to the same tune I did this year and the children loved it!
Good luck with the search Marc if you come up with anything perhaps you could let us know. |
26 Feb 98 - 12:33 AM (#22303) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: alison Hi, There are usually quite a few hymns set to the tune "O Waly Waly" (better known as "The Water is wide". Another nice one is to do "I heard the voice of Jesus say" to the tune of "Mary from Dungloe". Then of course there's "There is a green hill far away", to "the house of the rising sun." There's quite a few to "Londerry air" or "Danny boy" too. Some beautiful old Irish tunes are "Moville", "Durrow", and "Clonmacnoise"(used for the 2nd part of St Patrick's breastplate..... "Christ be in me, Christ within me....etc." Have a go looking in the index of tunes, like Joe already suggested. I used to play church organ and was always trying to find good tunes, so please let us know if you find any. Slainte Alison |
26 Feb 98 - 12:38 AM (#22304) Subject: Tune Add: CLONMACNOISE From: alison Hi, Here's "Clonmacnoise" (which by the way was a moanstery founded in 548 and abandoned in 1552, on the banks of the river Shannon.)Brilliant ruins!!!
MIDI file: CLONMAC.MID Timebase: 480 Name: CLONMACNOISE This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the January 15 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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26 Feb 98 - 08:12 AM (#22317) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Gloria Tham Alison, Hope you won't mind naming some of the hymns that can be sung to the tune of 'O Waly Waly'. I only know one that is 'When I Survey The Wondrous Cross' which I intend to do for a choir presentation this Lent. Thanks. |
26 Feb 98 - 06:03 PM (#22391) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: alison Hi, "O God, thy life creating love,""O loving father to thy care we give again this child of thine." (Both in the baptism section of the Presbyterian hymnbook.), and ""Tis winter now: the fallen snow,". all sung to "O Waly waly." While having a look I found one in "Mission Praise" to the tune of "Blow the wind Southerly" called "Spirit of Holiness." "Spirit of Holiness, wisdom, and faithfulness, Wind of the Lord blowing strongly and free, Strength of our serving and joy of our worshipping Spirit of God bring your fulness to me." There are 2 verses too, let me know if you can't find them. And for those of you country fans, there's "The church is wherever God's people are praising" to the tune of "The streets of Laredo". Slainte Alison |
27 Feb 98 - 05:46 PM (#22460) Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN LOVE IS FOUND^^ From: Alan of Australia G'day, Here's one we used at my daughter's wedding:- WHEN LOVE IS FOUND
Words by Brian Wren, 1978 Tune: Waly Waly/The Water is Wide When love is found and hope comes home,
When love has flowered in trust and care,
When love is tried as loved ones change,
When love is torn and trust betrayed,
Praise God for love, praise God for life, Cheers, |
27 Feb 98 - 07:09 PM (#22478) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: alison Hi, Another nice one is "Spirit of God unseen as the wind, gentle as is the dove...", (it was in "Sing to God", and is done to the tune of the "Skye Boat song", (Speed bonny boat.) Slainte Alison |
28 Feb 98 - 06:36 AM (#22523) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: dwditty A great source for songs of faith is Hymnsys. This product contains over 700 hyms and displays the words while playing the music. You may select to hear the parts either alone or in any combination. This feature was invaluable to me when I first joined the church choir and had no idea how to sing (in my case) the tenor line. The songs are indexed by Title, First Line, Topic, Word (search), Author/Composer, and Tune. A click of the mouse takes you to the scripture from which the hymn was taken and also to biographies of the author and composer. Altogether, a very useful program for anyone invloved in church music. For more info: www.hymnsys.com/hymnsys.htm Enjoy! DWDitty |
28 Feb 98 - 07:27 PM (#22579) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: On another thread someone asked for the lyrics for Somewhere Along The Road. Iv'e sung this in Chapel and it was well received. It may not have been the intention when Rick lemp wrote it but the lyrics are very applicable. BAZ |
28 Feb 98 - 07:29 PM (#22580) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: BAZ Lemp???? Should have said Rick Kemp - BAZ |
28 Feb 98 - 10:03 PM (#22591) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Alan of Australia G'day, The Australian Hymn Book has quite a few hymns, traditional and set to trad tunes. e.g. From thee all skill and science flow (Dives & Lazarus/Star of the County Down) words by Charles Kingsley 1819-75 Kneels at the feet of his friends by Tom Colvin (c.1965) set to a Ghana folk melody. I bind unto myself today/Christ be with me - attributed to St Patrick. etc. etc. Cheers, |
28 Feb 98 - 10:11 PM (#22592) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Alice Morning Has Broken |
02 Mar 98 - 11:08 AM (#22731) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Whippoorwill My favorite lyrics to Londonderry Air are Dotty Rambo's "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need." And try "Amazing Grace" to the tune "House of the Rising Sun," |
02 Mar 98 - 11:27 PM (#22794) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: belter I'd like to sugjest doing a keyword DT search for religous, gospel, god, and any other keyword that you can think of. |
03 Mar 98 - 01:01 AM (#22804) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: |
03 Mar 98 - 02:03 AM (#22807) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Marc B Oops. I realize I sent off the last message with nothing in it! I just wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate your postings. I'm thinking there is value to the list we are collecting, and for staying in touch re: this subject. I've not seen much in conversation or print about traditional songs/hymns or those trying to sing them, other than some Appalachian and Shape Note/Sacred Harp(all good stuff). And of course, solstice and Revels things. In reading your posts it occurs to me there is some STORY here, too, about our efforts to inject some trad into the Christian music scene, either in our home churches or more globally. Bears thinking on. Your postings have gotten us off to a good start. I dont' know how to do the MIDI thing unfortunately but I'll start trying to figure it out. I will summarize things and share my own findings when I complete the current journey(next week or so). And will continue to post a thread on this subject from time to time. I'm new to this forum, though I've had a downloaded version of DigiTrad for a while. I don't know if there is another way for me to communicate with you individually besides these themed threads or to chat. I'm delighted to find you all, who also seem to look to share your music with your community of faith. Though my contemporary choir compatriots like this stuff, they do think I'm a bit nuts. And conversely, though I do enjoy singing with the contemporary ensemble, most of the Christian music doesn't fit me very well, style-wise. Incidentally, I just started leading the music for a confirmation class of 75 6th graders. A prospect I find infinitely more terrifying than any pub full of drunken hooligans. More later. Marc B Marcbridge@aol.com |
03 Mar 98 - 11:03 AM (#22820) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Nordic Songs of Faith??? Hey, you should chek out this: http://www.mcn.net/~acflynn/music.html Tell Alice that Nordic sent u! |
03 Mar 98 - 11:39 AM (#22822) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Jon W. Marc, if you haven't "Joined" the Mudcat, you should. It's free. There is a button on the home page that will let you sign up. Your computer gets a cookie and you get a personal page. Then you get to send personal messages and so forth. Sixth-graders are great. I'm a Scoutmaster, mostly sixth and seventh graders. Don't be scared of them, just enjoy. |
03 Mar 98 - 06:51 PM (#22854) Subject: Lyr Add: PRAISE WE THE LORD^^ From: Alice Here is one that is to the tune of a French carol.
PRAISE WE THE LORD
Praise we the Lord, who made all beauty
Praise him who makes our life a pleasure,
Praise him who by a simple flower,
In the same Hymnal, I found
O HOW GLORIOUS, FULL OF WONDER
ALL BEAUTIFUL THE MARCH OF DAYS
WHEN I, O LORD
JUDGE ETERNAL, THRONED IN SPLENDOR
BY THE BABYLONIAN RIVERS
IN HEAVENLY LOVE ABIDING
BE THOU MY VISION
IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, GOD ONLY WISE alice |
04 Mar 98 - 04:49 AM (#22912) Subject: Lyr Add: SAVIOR TO THE POOR^^ From: belter This is a song I think would be good for six graders. I've been meaning to post it for a while any way. Idon't know the name for sure but I call it "Savior To the Poor" If I remember right I got it from a Pete Seeger recording.
Through the busy gray hound station
As they step out on the sidewalk
Searching through the crowded city
So amid the grease and tires
Though he cries to great his borning
If a prince were born this morning
But a few who have the wisdom
Then if this child should grow and prosper
Then through the years would pass the story
Yet within each myth of glory HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 28-Dec-00
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04 Mar 98 - 10:47 PM (#23026) Subject: Tune Add: SLAINE/ BE THOU MY VISION (Irish) From: alison Hi, forgot about "Be thou my vision", my favourite hymn, so here is the tune (an old Irish tune called "Slane"). We sang this at my wedding although my mum wanted us to leave out the verse about "Be thou my battleshield, sword for the fight", she reckoned you shouldn't sing about fighting at a wedding....... we sang it anyway!! Van Morrison sing a version of it on his "Hymn to the silence" CD accompanied by the "Chieftains". The tune is also used for "Lord of all Hopefulness" which we used to sing in scholl assembly. Slainte Alison
MIDI file: SLANE2.MID Timebase: 480 Name: This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the January 15 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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10 Mar 98 - 04:39 PM (#23471) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Art Thieme NO DISRESPECT INTENDED-------just humor!! but a while ago I realized that AMAZING GRACE works perfectly sung to the Gilligan's Island theme! |
11 Mar 98 - 01:03 AM (#23495) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: MarcB Art, Thanks for passing on the hint! Taken with humor and plan to experiment:) Marc B |
11 Mar 98 - 04:28 AM (#23507) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: belter About the song Savior To the Poor wich I posted earlyer, acording to my notes, the source is actualy Bill Steel's album Chocolate Chip Cookies. |
11 Mar 98 - 10:51 AM (#23533) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Brian Flanagan There is an old irish hym that the title I know to it is Morning has broken, but I have heard it under several other titles, almost as similar as the Ode to Joy has about sixty hyms to it's music |
04 Oct 98 - 05:25 PM (#40341) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: sean I want the lyrics to praise the lord |
05 Oct 98 - 01:24 AM (#40359) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: Joe Offer Hi, Sean - there are countles hymns that start with "Praise the Lord." Click here to get to the Cyber Hymnal and see if one of their songs is the one you want. If that doesn't work, give us a few more words from the hymn you're looking for, so we have an idea which one you might want. It can be hard sometimes to find a hymn with just the title. This morning, we needed a second hymn because communion went on too long, so the choir director whispered we should sing thus-and-such. Well, our hymnal has THREE songs with that title, so we were desperate to find the song before the song introduction was finished. We made it - but there was only time for us to sing one verse. The choir was not very happy with the director this morning - but we'll get over it.... -Joe Offer- |
20 May 00 - 11:18 PM (#231253) Subject: RE: Songs of Faith From: GUEST,Mrbisok@aol Have any of you heard of the Matty Prior album, released about 1993, "Sing Lustily and with good Courage"? It is a wonderful, wonderful, collection of "gallery hymns" played with no organ, but with original instruments. Her version of "Low He Comes with Clouds Descending" will set you free. Yes, I own this tape! Hey, it's off to church tomorrow. Good sermons and good music set the tone for the rest of the week. -- Parishioner, Harold from Hawthorne. |