[Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of downsizing...)

[Marion Thompson]

One thing that I realised at Trinity is that knowlege and use of hymn 
tunes is very regional.  I never get to sing a lot of the tunes that 
EVERYONE sang in Montreal but are virtually unknown in Toronto.  Also it 
can vary from church to church.  At my little place, the previous 
organist who died at 92 with her organ shoes on after 30+ years of 
service had played only a diminishing list of her favourites, so that 
congregational hymn tune knowledge is abyssmal!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/1/2015 8:40 AM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
> It is amazing, though, how some of those terms can seem like everybody
> knows them until you are somewhere else. And then you don't know which
> words are the ones that will make people look at you like "WHAT did you
> just say?"
>
> I think I had the same experience with hymn tunes. There were the tunes
> that EVERYBODY knew back home, and in most churches I visited other
> places near there. But it took a long time to figure out which ones
> would get a "we've NEVER sung that tune before" reaction from choir and
> congregation down here.
>
> Kristin
>