[Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:32 AM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Au contraire, the service music is in a separate volume of the same size.
> As an organist I used both of course.  Given that the MP service music is
> so rarely used nowadays I am not surprised that the service music volume is
> relatively unknown.
>

For the accompanists version, that is true.




> ---- Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>   >
> > As most TEC parishes used the little hymnals with no harmonies at all
> back in
> > the day, I think lots of them were pleased at the addition of harmonies
> in
> > H82.And of course, for those who want ALL of them (despite notes that
> the others
> > be sung in unison) CPC does (or at least did) publish a hymnal with full
> music
> > for all 720 hymns (no service music, however).
>
>
There is also a volume for general use called Hymnbook 1982 - no service
music, and full accompaniments. (I heard at one time that there was a hope
that other denominations might use it).

As far as the unison hymns - the accompaniment is there, but good luck
trying to find a tenor or alto part  - they're not laid out that way.

My bone with the unison hymns is that some of them run a bit high for me
(though ok for the average singer). No bass part, I'm out of luck.

There are a few that have full harmonies for singing. I was told they were
done unison to save printing space.


-- 
P. Dan Brittain
Harrison, Arkansas

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