Hi! Just wondering whether anyone here has the BBC Songs of Praise hymnal and could tell me the tune of "We sing the praise of Him who died" please. I don't know the hymn at all, don't have the book, and am supposed to play it in a church tomorrow morning as I am covering for an organist who is on holiday. I have found several different tunes in various books which I have but all I've been told is that "they sing the tune in the BBC Songs of Praise book" and I have no idea which tune that is. Hopefully it will be one that I know. I'm tending to go with Warrington as that seems to be the most well-known tune that I've found.

Last time there was a query about this hymnbook, mwl1 answered it. As Celeste has an important day in York, he may not be around this afternoon, but it might be worth a PM.

For what it's worth, our church always sings this hymn to Church Triumphant. I've also sung it to Breslau, but never Warrington.

That's interesting. I don't know Church Triumphant at all but our last hymn tomorrow will be "Take up Thy cross" which I always play to Breslau, so it might be strange if I play two hymns to the same tune.

Definitely not a good idea to have the same tune twice! I'm sorry, but I've no idea which tune will be in the BBC book. Can you get there early and have a play through before the service?

The one we sing to 'We sing the praise' is by Sidney Nicholson - name is something like Bow Brickhill, I think.
I will look it up and check.

(ed - yes, that's the one).

Agreed - I've never sung it to anything other than Bow Brickhill.

Thanks for the replies. I'll have to look that one up because I've never heard of Bow Brickhill. Hope it's in one of my hymnals.

Don't know if you can hear the sound on this - worth a try anyway.

http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/w/w146.html

What tune was it in the end, porilo?

The actual tune was Warrington, which was good because that's the one which I know and so did the congregation.

Excellent! I'm glad it was the tune you knew. Did you like the hymn, or were you too busy playing to notice the words? We in the Methodist Church often have it during the Easter season.

Oh yes, I liked the hymn as I had played it before to the same tune somewhere else. I always take note of the words of hymns because I try to give expression to the music rather than just playing it as "notes", and I find that words help a lot with the overall dynamics, when to crescendo and when to diminuendo, etc. I've lost count of how many times I've heard, for example, the lines "O still small voice of calm" (Dear Lord and Father of mankind) sung fortissimo !!!