I had to look that one up ... I don't think it would fit into many churches' hymnody today!
It's still pretty common in RC places and always appears in RC hymn books. "Firmly I believe and truly God is three and God is one... "
It's in Complete Anglican Hymns Old And New (the Orange Book), complete with the verse about holding the Church's teachings as God's own...
We've had it at Our Place from time to time, usually to the tune Shipston, but not today. Today is a Feast of St Hallmark, after all.
Does anyone remember singing the tune from 'the pink book' at school in the 1970s? I've never come across it since. We tried a lot of tunes from that book, including a breakneck speed version of 'Through all the changing scenes of life'. But really the only one which seems to have stuck is 'O Jesus I have promised'.
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Does anyone remember singing the tune from 'the pink book' at school in the 1970s? I've never come across it since. We tried a lot of tunes from that book, including a breakneck speed version of 'Through all the changing scenes of life'. But really the only one which seems to have stuck is 'O Jesus I have promised'.
It's called 30 20th century hymn tunes. Contains both gems and horrors. There's a setting of a Donne sonnet at the end which I love but have never heard anyone else sing.
I once had a musician who struggled with the left hand on the keyboard and stuck with chords. Faced with the counter melody in the bass line of DESERT (LYNGHAM) for O for a thousand tongues he just... skipped that bar entirely! Having been pulled up short mid-verse I approached him the next time it was chosen and coaxed him into giving that bar a try with the left hand, and all was well.
How very odd. The twiddly bits are surely there to help swing the hymn along, as you imply.
Yes - and they're in the music! (Said organist was also not keen on the upper part of the Townend "The Lord's my shepherd", but reluctantly agreed to it).
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Does anyone remember singing the tune from 'the pink book' at school in the 1970s? I've never come across it since. We tried a lot of tunes from that book, including a breakneck speed version of 'Through all the changing scenes of life'. But really the only one which seems to have stuck is 'O Jesus I have promised'.
If a heretical Dean had tried "missing out" the anthem there would have been ructions. 😈
This, perhaps? https://tinyurl.com/4hehb424
We always use that tune for "O Jesus I have promised" in this church! Had it just a couple of weeks ago.
Actually ‘At the name of Jesus’ (complete with twiddly bit between the verses) seems to have stuck around too.
Ah, a bit of rallentando before jumping into the next verse ...
Yes - and they're in the music! (Said organist was also not keen on the upper part of the Townend "The Lord's my shepherd", but reluctantly agreed to it).
FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnSB-ycjIu4