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

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

No surprise, I guess, that it varies.  These folks pointed the psalm and
everyone just sang.  They are so conversant with the notes that they felt
no need to put it into the prepared bulletin.  Of course you hear it once
and you've got it. Chant is so analogous to bugle calls.  And, yes, some
folks consider bugle calls music, and they will not get an argument from
me.

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 Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> >
>