I bunked off church this morning: I was a bit zonked after going up to Inverness and back yesterday.
If I had been there, I'd have celebrated Harvest with the following:
All creatures of our God and King - Lasst Uns Erfreuen Dance and sing - Pulling Bracken For the beauty of the earth - Dix (the Wrong Tune) There is a Redeemer We plough the fields and scatter - Wir Pflügen
A service of two halves: fairly jolly in the first half, more thoughtful in the second.
“Great is thy faithfulness” its own tune.
“Our God makes the harvest grow” - Old MacDonald.
“Let's give thanks for the harvest” school assembly song.
“For the fruits of his creation” Ar Hyd y Nos.
“God in his love for us lent us this planet” - Springfield.
“Now we sing a harvest song” - St George's Windsor.
For the beauty of the earth - Dix (the Wrong Tune)
Agreed. I don't much like "Dix" but, to me, it goes to "As with gladness, men of old".
So it does, but (as I think @Piglet implies), England's Lane is a much more cheerful tune for For the beauty of the earth. I forgot to ask my Spy if they sang the latter at Our Place today.
BTW, IIRC there's yet a third tune for FTBOTE - does that ring any bells?
Probably sounds better on an organ than on a carillon ...
That's the first tune listed in CH4, and was new to me on moving here. The second tune is MOSELEY, which I have never sung or heard. ENGLAND'S LANE is what I grew up with.
We had:
This is the day
O Lord, our Lord (TRAMPS AND HAWKERS; I recorded a new version of this today, in harmony with a bit slower pace. The version I had on file was a bit clunky and didn't really do justice to the tune. I'm not sure, however, if I've gone a bit too slow now.
I need thee every hour
All my hope on God is founded (MICHAEL)
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness (RHUDDLAN)
That works perfectly well, but personally I prefer "Regent Square".
REGENT SQUARE would serve, yes, but I'm not sufficiently partial to it that I'd make another recording unless someone asked for it specifically. CH4 has it to RHUDDLAN so I was happy to go with that.
A good turnout at Our Place, so my Spy tells me. The Lord's Prayer from The Sheet was the Kum-ba-yah version, and not, as I had feared, the loathsome Auld Lang Syne drivel by Cliff Richard...
All are welcome - (Yeah, right.)
Make me a channel of your peace - Its St Francis's feast day and those words have falsely been ascribed to him in the past (I think.)
Bread of Life
Lord of all hopefulness - down a semitone and with my own much simpler accompaniment. Its an Irish folk tune, it does need a different chord for every note of the tune. One chord per bar and at a lilting on-in-a-bar rhythm does the trick.
Down a semitone? Have mercy , it's got a low Bb in it as it is!
All are welcome - (Yeah, right.)
Make me a channel of your peace - Its St Francis's feast day and those words have falsely been ascribed to him in the past (I think.)
Bread of Life
Lord of all hopefulness - down a semitone and with my own much simpler accompaniment. Its an Irish folk tune, it does need a different chord for every note of the tune. One chord per bar and at a lilting on-in-a-bar rhythm does the trick.
Down a semitone? Have mercy , it's got a low Bb in it as it is!
We have an old congregation. Low is easier than high for them.
We had:
Come ye thankful people, come
Praise God for the harvest (same tune as “When a knight won his spurs”)
Give thanks with a grateful heart
For the fruits of his creation (Ar Hyd y Nos)
We plough the fields and scatter
I can’t remember why I didn’t put in “All creatures of our God and King”. Probably because it’s a bit long and we haven’t had a very good turnout for Harvest for a few years. The service has to be at 4pm, as our church is inaccessible on the first Sunday morning on October (road closures for a half marathon). In fact the church was full this year, as the Korean congregation that use our building on Sunday afternoons volunteered to cater for everyone for a harvest supper afterwards, and they turned out in vast numbers.
We had:#
Praise God for the harvest (same tune as “When a knight won his spurs”)
That's "Stowey".
In fact the church was full this year, as the Korean congregation that use our building on Sunday afternoons volunteered to cater for everyone for a harvest supper afterwards, and they turned out in vast numbers.
Trinity 19 at Our Place tomorrow:
Great is thy faithfulness (Faithfulness) And can it be (Sagina) Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (Mannheim) When a knight won his spurs (Stowey)
“Jesus calls us here to meet him” - Hyfrydol (for a change).
“As we are gathered Jesus is here” - its own tune.
“I am the church! You are the church!” - its own tune.
“Brother, sister, let me serve you” - Servant Song.
“Lord, from whom all blessings flow” - Tichfield.
Lord of the Church, we pray for our renewing” - Londonderry Air (my wife will slay me!).
Also Harvest at family service - our short monthly Breakfast Church.
Ten Thousand Reasons (Bless the Lord, O my soul) Harvest Samba - a new one to me and it would have been fun to dance to The splendour of the King (How great is our God)
Also Harvest at family service - our short monthly Breakfast Church.
Ten Thousand Reasons (Bless the Lord, O my soul) Harvest Samba - a new one to me and it would have been fun to dance to The splendour of the King (How great is our God)
We've had the Samba in the past, it went down well.
At the Cathedral.
St Anne Mass (for the eucharistic bits, something else for the gloria/gospel acclamations)
Great is thy faithfulness
Jesus Christ is waiting
There's a wideness in God's mercy (CORVEDALE, which was new to me)
Here is love, vast as the ocean
I will sing the wondrous story (HYFRYDOL)
Be Still For The Presence of the ARGH NO NOT THIS PLEASE NO NO NO NO
As The Deer Pants To Prove Christians Sing Lies Rather Than Tell Them
Fill Thou My Life - some sanity
Make Me A Channel - oh thank God
God Is Love, Let Heaven Adore Him
Each to their own, of course. I rather like Be still, for the presence of the Lord (granted, it's rather over-exposed), but find Make me a channel of your peace difficult to sing...
As the deer pants - well, ISWYM, but the Genevan version is IMHO much better. Here it is, sung a capella in English:
Each to their own, of course. I rather like Be still, for the presence of the Lord (granted, it's rather over-exposed), but find Make me a channel of your peace difficult to sing...
As the deer pants - well, ISWYM, but the Genevan version is IMHO much better. Here it is, sung a capella in English:
Baggage dear boy. When one's had scary people waving hands over one speaking in gobbledegook and writing cheques on God's behalf, at least by implication, that he didn't honour, the language of the last verse rubs one up the wrong way.
Make me a channel is difficult to sing because of the ‘grunt note’ that begins most phrases. By this I mean those very low notes on the pick up weak beat. I now sing a note of the chord which is closer to the next strong beat’s note. This is a technique for joining chant phrases beginning on a weak beat too.
Make me a channel is difficult to sing because of the ‘grunt note’ that begins most phrases. By this I mean those very low notes on the pick up weak beat. I now sing a note of the chord which is closer to the next strong beat’s note. This is a technique for joining chant phrases beginning on a weak beat too.
It is a grunt isn't it. Too low for how short it is and for me it's down in that sort of sub-chest croak register.
Make me a channel is difficult to sing because of the ‘grunt note’ that begins most phrases. By this I mean those very low notes on the pick up weak beat. I now sing a note of the chord which is closer to the next strong beat’s note. This is a technique for joining chant phrases beginning on a weak beat too.
It is a grunt isn't it. Too low for how short it is and for me it's down in that sort of sub-chest croak register.
And its one of those tunes that has too wide a range for many worshippers.
Make me a channel is difficult to sing because of the ‘grunt note’ that begins most phrases. By this I mean those very low notes on the pick up weak beat. I now sing a note of the chord which is closer to the next strong beat’s note. This is a technique for joining chant phrases beginning on a weak beat too.
It is a grunt isn't it. Too low for how short it is and for me it's down in that sort of sub-chest croak register.
And its one of those tunes that has too wide a range for many worshippers.
Only because of the grunt note which stops it being set any lower.
Mind you, we've got to a state if most congregations can't manage a D.
I hadn't thought of that; looking at the scores, I think "We plough" has one semitone greater range than "Londonderry". Yet people don't complain about it in the same way, perhaps because it gets to the top note in stages.
Big jump from "the" to "warmth". I think it's familiarity. Hymns to LA are newish.
I cannot tell is over a century old, Lord of the church 50 this year. Both were in early editions of Mission Praise published over 30 years ago. We plough the fields is a little over 150 years old. Older, but not egregiously so. I wonder if it's simply a matter of getting the right key?
While we're on the subject of badly pitched and awkwardly ranged hymns: How great thou art.
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If I had been there, I'd have celebrated Harvest with the following:
All creatures of our God and King - Lasst Uns Erfreuen
Dance and sing - Pulling Bracken
For the beauty of the earth - Dix (the Wrong Tune)
There is a Redeemer
We plough the fields and scatter - Wir Pflügen
“Great is thy faithfulness” its own tune.
“Our God makes the harvest grow” - Old MacDonald.
“Let's give thanks for the harvest” school assembly song.
“For the fruits of his creation” Ar Hyd y Nos.
“God in his love for us lent us this planet” - Springfield.
“Now we sing a harvest song” - St George's Windsor.
So it does, but (as I think @Piglet implies), England's Lane is a much more cheerful tune for For the beauty of the earth. I forgot to ask my Spy if they sang the latter at Our Place today.
BTW, IIRC there's yet a third tune for FTBOTE - does that ring any bells?
Probably sounds better on an organ than on a carillon ...
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0-FVHStYvc&list=RDL0-FVHStYvc&start_radio=1
That's the first tune listed in CH4, and was new to me on moving here. The second tune is MOSELEY, which I have never sung or heard. ENGLAND'S LANE is what I grew up with.
We had:
This is the day
O Lord, our Lord (TRAMPS AND HAWKERS; I recorded a new version of this today, in harmony with a bit slower pace. The version I had on file was a bit clunky and didn't really do justice to the tune. I'm not sure, however, if I've gone a bit too slow now.
I need thee every hour
All my hope on God is founded (MICHAEL)
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness (RHUDDLAN)
REGENT SQUARE would serve, yes, but I'm not sufficiently partial to it that I'd make another recording unless someone asked for it specifically. CH4 has it to RHUDDLAN so I was happy to go with that.
Blimey. There's a choice made in Hell...
Down a semitone? Have mercy , it's got a low Bb in it as it is!
We have an old congregation. Low is easier than high for them.
Come ye thankful people, come
Praise God for the harvest (same tune as “When a knight won his spurs”)
Give thanks with a grateful heart
For the fruits of his creation (Ar Hyd y Nos)
We plough the fields and scatter
I can’t remember why I didn’t put in “All creatures of our God and King”. Probably because it’s a bit long and we haven’t had a very good turnout for Harvest for a few years. The service has to be at 4pm, as our church is inaccessible on the first Sunday morning on October (road closures for a half marathon). In fact the church was full this year, as the Korean congregation that use our building on Sunday afternoons volunteered to cater for everyone for a harvest supper afterwards, and they turned out in vast numbers.
How wonderful!
Usual canticles
Psalm 89 (part) - chant by George C Martin
Hymns:
God of mercy, God of grace - Heathlands
O for a closer walk with God - Caithness
God that madest earth and heaven - Ar Hyd Y Nos
Great is thy faithfulness (Faithfulness)
And can it be (Sagina)
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (Mannheim)
When a knight won his spurs (Stowey)
“As we are gathered Jesus is here” - its own tune.
“I am the church! You are the church!” - its own tune.
“Brother, sister, let me serve you” - Servant Song.
“Lord, from whom all blessings flow” - Tichfield.
Lord of the Church, we pray for our renewing” - Londonderry Air (my wife will slay me!).
The God Of Abraham Praise (Leoni)
O God Our Help In Ages Past (St Anne)
There Is A Higher Throne (Getty)
And Can It Be (Sagina)
We plough the fields
Think of a world without any flowers
Blessed be our God.
And one more worship song I didn’t know.
Ten Thousand Reasons (Bless the Lord, O my soul)
Harvest Samba - a new one to me and it would have been fun to dance to
The splendour of the King (How great is our God)
Our offerings were mostly quite civilised (although the Communion hymn was far too short, and we had to sing it four times). 🙄
Now thank we all our God - Nun Danket
In the Lord I'll be ever thankful - Taizé
Jesus, name above all names
Thou whose almighty word - Moscow
We've had the Samba in the past, it went down well.
My Spy has no idea why this was chosen.
St Anne Mass (for the eucharistic bits, something else for the gloria/gospel acclamations)
Great is thy faithfulness
Jesus Christ is waiting
There's a wideness in God's mercy (CORVEDALE, which was new to me)
Here is love, vast as the ocean
I will sing the wondrous story (HYFRYDOL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJwfT3SY_PU&list=RDvJwfT3SY_PU&start_radio=1
As The Deer Pants To Prove Christians Sing Lies Rather Than Tell Them
Fill Thou My Life - some sanity
Make Me A Channel - oh thank God
God Is Love, Let Heaven Adore Him
It got better as it went along.
Each to their own, of course. I rather like Be still, for the presence of the Lord (granted, it's rather over-exposed), but find Make me a channel of your peace difficult to sing...
As the deer pants - well, ISWYM, but the Genevan version is IMHO much better. Here it is, sung a capella in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5aL3JLl4E&list=RDgB5aL3JLl4E&start_radio=1
Baggage dear boy. When one's had scary people waving hands over one speaking in gobbledegook and writing cheques on God's behalf, at least by implication, that he didn't honour, the language of the last verse rubs one up the wrong way.
It is a grunt isn't it. Too low for how short it is and for me it's down in that sort of sub-chest croak register.
And its one of those tunes that has too wide a range for many worshippers.
Only because of the grunt note which stops it being set any lower.
Mind you, we've got to a state if most congregations can't manage a D.
Yeah that one gets the flack but "We Plough the Fields" is no better.
I cannot tell is over a century old, Lord of the church 50 this year. Both were in early editions of Mission Praise published over 30 years ago. We plough the fields is a little over 150 years old. Older, but not egregiously so. I wonder if it's simply a matter of getting the right key?
While we're on the subject of badly pitched and awkwardly ranged hymns: How great thou art.
Oddly, I don't mind WPTFAS - it's just a good, once-a-year gulder!