[Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.o

[ME Michaud]

One of the reasons the Shakers moved so far into the country was because
their loud hymn singing disturbed their neighbors. The world was much
quieter in the eighteenth century, and the din from their services carried
for miles.

When I was a child growing up in a military town, NO ONE would sing Austria.
-M

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
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<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','magdalen at herberthouse.org');>> wrote:
>
> The Methodist Movement was an impetus to hymn singing by the average
> worshipper, and, of course, the Germans - both Lutheran and Roman
> Catholic - were singing hymns with gusto early on.
>
> For a long time Anglicans avoided hymns of Germanic origin, and I
> have experienced vestiges of this in my lifetime.
>