[Magdalen] Was: Prayers ANSWERED: Now, Chant.

[Jay Weigel]

I dunno. I've been attending a Lutheran church for over 3 years now, and
I'll be damned if I can sort out Lutheran chant....thank God the new choir
director came from an Episcopal church and has pulled them toward the less
meandering ones!

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:28 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was in a Lutheran Church to help a friend of mine premiere one of his
> works. They have chanting essentially the same as what I've been hearing
> for years.
>
> 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, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > On 19/02/2016 21:04, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> In a message dated 2/19/2016 3:42:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
> >>
> >> In  short, nearly all congregational singing we know is rooted no
> earlier
> >> than  the 19th Century adn attempts to recapture the pre-Reformation
> >> genre is  mere affectation.>>>>>>
> >>   If you mean by this that congregations did not sing prior to the 19th
> >> century, you may be correct for the UK.
> >>
> >
> > and there only in Anglicanism.  Charles Wesley certainly assumed members
> > of his new churches would sing when he wrote all those hymns for them.
> > What became the standard general-purpose hymnal for the C/E traces its
> > history to a conversation between two clergymen on a train in 1858.  The
> > first edition of "Hymns Ancient & Modern" appeared three years later.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>