tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post9154267261250207405..comments2023-04-07T14:15:14.735+01:00Comments on Bad things in new hymn books and other sad tales: Who on earth thy name confestCatherine Rowetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356313351798903675noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-81107054246851995212007-12-04T16:47:00.000+00:002007-12-04T16:47:00.000+00:00Good idea. The lack of posts of late has been part...Good idea. The lack of posts of late has been partly due to the diminishing number of new experiences not already discussed, and partly due to the nightmare that is life at the moment...Catherine Rowetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356313351798903675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-45456139422294813732007-12-04T16:31:00.000+00:002007-12-04T16:31:00.000+00:00Your usual format of commenting on changes made to...Your usual format of commenting on changes made to a hymn you've recently sung doesn't allow for an answer to the following question: which hymn dropped from EH in the NEH do you most miss? You've made comments in passing about some of these, and perhaps it's a blog entry in itself.<BR/><BR/>When the Methodists revised their hymnbook in the 1980's a group in Oxford organised a sing-through of allVirginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10786230862658889619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-46212765816522974412007-12-02T16:36:00.000+00:002007-12-02T16:36:00.000+00:00My dad, at an English prep School in the 1930s, re...My dad, at an English prep School in the 1930s, remembered singing:<BR/><BR/><I>Lord can we be very good,<BR/>Like Saint Simon and Saint Jude?<BR/>Ever constant in our aims,<BR/>Like Saint Philip and Saint James.</I><BR/><BR/>The <B>certainly</B> don't make them like that any more!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-7313856826031912892007-11-06T02:05:00.000+00:002007-11-06T02:05:00.000+00:00I'm reminded of an article I read last year entitl...I'm reminded of an article I read last year entitled "No more hims of praise," which lamented hymns which are "botched, lobotomized or castrated" by editors, in the name of modernity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-15286377235180615182007-11-02T12:02:00.000+00:002007-11-02T12:02:00.000+00:00That, of course, is not the same as the original S...That, of course, is not the same as the original <I>Songs of Praise</I> edited by Dearmer, which we knew and loved at school.<BR/><BR/>Presumably the "correct" spelling is the modern one? I very deliberately avoided the Dearmeresqe archaism when rhyming "confessed" with "west" in the third stanza of <A HREF="http://jy100.livejournal.com/9598.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> translation.Tigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01869909234608355932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-68220327675350414712007-11-01T22:37:00.000+00:002007-11-01T22:37:00.000+00:00BBC Songs of Praise has the correct spelling! I'm ...BBC Songs of Praise has the correct spelling! I'm teaching it in Hymn Pracice tomorrow so I thought I'd better check.KeyReedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894097012924024789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-20879528791546981852007-10-31T22:10:00.000+00:002007-10-31T22:10:00.000+00:00Why not just write 'confessed'?Why not, indeed? Bu...<I>Why not just write 'confessed'?</I><BR/><BR/>Why not, indeed? But the false archaic spelling is also used in "For all the saints", which many of us will be singing over the next few days. This hymn was written by Bishop Walsham How towards the end of the 19th century, when "before the world confest" would have been as self-consciously and ridiculously antique as "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe" on the Tigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01869909234608355932noreply@blogger.com