Farrell's "O God you search me"

[Nick Baty]

A clip of Bernadette from last Sunday’s Songs of Praise. Although, if memory serves me correctly, this originally featured in a 2004 edition about women's ministry.

[keitha]

Yes - unusually (it's not really my cup of tea) I saw last week's SoP and meant to draw attention to it before it drops off BBC iPlayer tomorrow - it was about hymns, hymn writing and arranging and I though it was quite interesting.

[IncenseTom]

A lovely hymn. A great example of something modern and reverent.

[nazard]

The whole programme is worth watghing before it goes off iplayer - I just watched it. I liked it all except for the Archer, which was jolly and melodious but I didn't feel it reinforced the words.

Has anyone seen "Sing Praise", the new hymnbook they mention? Is the material in it covered by CCLI or Calamus? Is any of it suitable for catholic use?

[Tresham]

Has anyone seen "Sing Praise", the new hymnbook they mention? Is the material in it covered by CCLI or Calamus? Is any of it suitable for catholic use?

Yes I have a copy. It's published by Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd and the Royal School of Church Music, so it's an Anglican resource with ecumenical contributions from what they call a "new generation of Roman Catholic composers" (including Bernadette Farrell) as well as the Iona Community, Taize and world music. Yes the contents are covered by CCLI or Calamus, depending on the music copyright. If you already own a variety of hymn books then you might find a familiar selection here. However, I think it's useful to have another resource to dip into now and again. See http://www.singpraise.info for a list of the contents etc.

[Peter]

Thanks, Nick, for pointing out this interesting programme.

Has anyone seen "Sing Praise", the new hymnbook they mention? Is the material in it covered by CCLI or Calamus? Is any of it suitable for catholic use?

CCLI and Calamus licences apply according to copyright holders (authors or publishers) of the individual hymns, not normally* books in toto. You cannot assume, for example, that because "Hymns Old and New" is published by Kevin Mayhew, who is party to the CCLI scheme, everything in that book is covered by a CCL: it contains some hymns covered by Calamus and some covered by neither licence. I have skimmed through the contents list of "Sing Praise" on the web and noticed some items covered by each licence, but there could be others that are covered by neither.

* There are exceptions:the whole of "Themesongs", published by Kevin Mayhew is covered by CCLI, but only because he owns the copyright of all the hymns in it; books containing only Taizé music are covered by Calamus. In general, you need to check each item individually.