I generally try to avoid the infamous recessional hymn altogether, but I guess Take The Word would not be a hymn for the sake of having a hymn, but rather a hymn that describes and explains the action at that point in the Mass. If I include it in our school Mass for all Saints we could have it with trumpets and at a suitable speed
Benevenio - thanks for the location of the parts. I'll just have to wait for the Decani people to wake up.
Worse still, we are to do "Father into your hands" next time and I can't shake the notion of playing it as a foxtrot and inserting 'nicky-nacky-noo-type music' at the end of each phrase
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Exactly how we used to play it. I have no problem with fox-trotting hymns when there are so many waltzy ones. It goes quite well blue-grass too, but you need a really proficient guitarist. It's all about wresting some of the best styles back from the devil.
Alan
Reginald wrote:... Take the Word...am I the only person who hears an 8' trumpet fanfare in the introduction and in the alternating Dm7 and G chords between verses?
I had not come across this one but I looked it up and I can't think of anything else to do with it. Oh for a nice "Trompete Real" mounted in Chamade across the front of the choir loft...
I must have a go at the nicky-nacky-noo as well, but I'm not sure that the fans of "Father into your hands" would realise that I was taking the Michael.
To get back to the original topic, when I need to identify the genre of hymns we are talking about I call them "Hymns based on early sixties pop."
nazard wrote:To get back to the original topic, when I need to identify the genre of hymns we are talking about I call them "Hymns based on early sixties pop."
Have I misunderstood the question? I thought the idea was to find a classification for modern hymns that weren't based on early sixties pop, i.e. with words that actually say something and tunes that aren't totally banal. Or to put it another way, hymns that many of the contributors to the "(More) Spiteful Drivel" threads are confusing with those based on early sixties pop but shouldn't be!
