[Magdalen] Brightest and Best - The Epiphany, January 6, 2016.

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice, James. Thanks for sharing. I honestly don't think I've ever heard
> Brightest and Best sung to this tune before. I've always heard the
> Victorian tune, Morning Star. I take it this is the "other" tune in our
> 1982 Hymnal?
>
> Yes - and the editors appear not to have known of the tradition of raising
the 6th - not necessarily universally practiced.

http://tinyurl.com/jmxqu5v    is of a shape note group singing it. Groups
outside the traditional deep south usually don't sing it dorian.


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