This morning, in a little bit of a departure, we sang ‘Alas And Did My Saviour Bleed’ by Isaac Watts at mgpc. I first encountered the hymn in the Australian Presbyterian Rejoice! hymnbook, which features a version of Watts’ words which is accompanied by a refrain and tune arrangement by Ralph Hudson. You can hear …
Well, this is, to use my youngest daughter’s favourite word of positive description, awesome, and very much worth your time to watch. From the YouTube page where this is posted: On Saturday, October 30, 2010, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight …
I’ve loved the song ‘Heaven Came Down’ since I was a kid. Our church had a gestetner spirit duplicated song book that featured hymns from the Sankey tradition. It was really only used when we were away on our church camps, so once a year we got to bang these sorts of songs out, usually …
At The Blazing Center Mark Altrogge features a brief post highlighting Prosody. pros·o·dy* (praw’ suh dee) –noun 1. The science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. Linguistics: the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance. A helpful piece, particularly for those who want to evaluate the singability of a song; compose new tunes …
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