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Full Version: Harvest Hymnody
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QUOTE(clavicembalo @ Aug 28 2010, 02:23 PM) 
QUOTE(Aquarelle @ Aug 28 2010, 02:04 PM)
The French don't have Harvest Festival and I miss it - that wonderful smell as you entered the church!
If you are having any of the old harvest favourites in your church this year please sing them out for me too!
"All good gifts around us are sent from Heav'n above ...." Merci! Merci beaucoup!!!
QUOTE(Aquarelle @ Aug 28 2010, 02:04 PM)
The French don't have Harvest Festival and I miss it - that wonderful smell as you entered the church!
You could always try this to the tune of Frere Jacques:
Life is but a,
Life is but a
melancholy flower,
-choly flower,
Life is but a melan-,
Life is but a melan-
-choly flower,
-choly flower.
QUOTE(Vox Humana @ Aug 31 2010, 03:18 PM)
QUOTE(Aquarelle @ Aug 28 2010, 02:04 PM)
The French don't have Harvest Festival and I miss it - that wonderful smell as you entered the church!
You could always try this to the tune of Frere Jacques:
Life is but a,
Life is but a
melacholy flower,
-choly flower,
Life is but a melan-,
Life is but a melan-
-choly flower,
-choly flower.
I really wish you hadn't posted this, Vox. It's been going round my head since yesterday and it's the first thing I thought of on waking this morning. It's driving me NUTS!
OT (sorry) but it reminds me of the Two Ronnies' take off
oh take thy pil, oh take thy pil,
oh take thy pilgrim home,
oh for a man, oh for a man,
oh for a mansion in the sky.
etc
oh take thy pil, oh take thy pil,
oh take thy pilgrim home,
oh for a man, oh for a man,
oh for a mansion in the sky.
etc
QUOTE(maggiemay @ Sep 1 2010, 09:18 AM)
OT (sorry) but it reminds me of the Two Ronnies' take off
oh take thy pil, oh take thy pil,
oh take thy pilgrim home,
oh for a man, oh for a man,
oh for a mansion in the sky.
etc
Likewise, from the Two Ronnies' oeuvres:
Poor cow, poor cow, poor cow, poor cow,
Poor cowslips in the new-grown hay.
So doff, so doff, so doff, so doff,
*** *** you're hat I pray!
I had rather more intended to post on this thread:
Did anyone hear Daniel Hyde's performance of Reger's Dankpsalm on Wednesday's CE from St.Patrick's, Armagh?
QUOTE(Dulcet @ Aug 27 2010, 03:21 PM)
Hymns for Today's Church has the immortal lines "Oh hear us when we cry to you For those who sail the ocean blue". Which reminds me, I saw a copy on top of the organ last week. I think I need to instigate a Seek and Destroy mission.
It took me a while to recognise that... am I right in thinking someone felt the need to corrupt "Oh hear us when we cry to thee, Fo those in peril on the sea?" which was perfect explicit when I was a 7 YO Brownie at Remembrance Day?
The 'new' words don't even scan right...
(gumblemutter)
[Edit: My 'r' key is going on strike. Hopefully this still makes sense.]
"..am I right in thinking someone felt the need to corrupt "Oh hear us when we cry to thee, For those in peril on the sea?" "
Yes.
The editors of 'Hymns For Today's Church' also saw fit to alter the National Anthem and just about everything else they could. The excuse was to purge all archaisms. Yet they failed. Miserably and spectacularly. Some of their newly written material reeks of Elizabethan and Tudor syntax, albeit without certain pronouns (Thee, Thou, etc.,) and preterite endings. (hast, wouldeth, shouldeth, etc.) The same thing happened with the Alternative Service Book and even more so with Common Worship.
Years ago there was an hymn book edited by, amongst other people, one Patrick Appleford. The Preface or Forward to the awful book claimed that the editors had expunged all archaisms. Yet there it was - 'Let every creature rise and bring peculiar honours to our King'. I loved this own goal and the many other similar ones that book contained.
The simple fact is these folk do not understand language, yet they insist on fiddling with it, despite their wanton ignorance of the first and worst order.
As the late Sir Kenneth Cork once said, "There are none so dangerous as them that do no know what they do not know." (Please note his Tudorism of 'them that' instead of 'those who'.)
Barry Williams
Yes.
The editors of 'Hymns For Today's Church' also saw fit to alter the National Anthem and just about everything else they could. The excuse was to purge all archaisms. Yet they failed. Miserably and spectacularly. Some of their newly written material reeks of Elizabethan and Tudor syntax, albeit without certain pronouns (Thee, Thou, etc.,) and preterite endings. (hast, wouldeth, shouldeth, etc.) The same thing happened with the Alternative Service Book and even more so with Common Worship.
Years ago there was an hymn book edited by, amongst other people, one Patrick Appleford. The Preface or Forward to the awful book claimed that the editors had expunged all archaisms. Yet there it was - 'Let every creature rise and bring peculiar honours to our King'. I loved this own goal and the many other similar ones that book contained.
The simple fact is these folk do not understand language, yet they insist on fiddling with it, despite their wanton ignorance of the first and worst order.
As the late Sir Kenneth Cork once said, "There are none so dangerous as them that do no know what they do not know." (Please note his Tudorism of 'them that' instead of 'those who'.)
Barry Williams
Excellent and lovely post, Barry!
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