[Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I never recall being in a church that used the tiny ersatz hymnal of which
you speak.  We always used the full-sized real hymnal. I saw the tiny
things from time to time in dinky places and church camps where they lived
off hand-me-downs, but never actually used the little thing.

The ability of the congregation to sing the whole hymn, not just the
melody, distinguished us from other plain-bread Christians.

Maybe in some places they felt lucky to get any hymnal at all, I suppose.
The mini-hymnal, however, is better than some, which have no notation at
all.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Having grown up with the 1959 Broadman and 1975 Baptist, when I converted
>> the 1982 Episcopal left me wailing over and over, "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
>> >HARMONY?!" I suppose heritage with the 1940 Episcopal would have elicited
>> the same wail, but maybe moreso.  With my background of "director-led"
>> >congregational singing (lusty, I believe would be the right word), I don't
>> think I even had a chance.
>>
>
> 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).
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>