The Great Disappearing Hymn Act | Martha Reed Garvin | Musical Memories
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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Martha Reed Garvin host and creator of the Musical Memories program, shares an article from the NRB magazine entitled "The Great Disappearing Hymn Act" authored by Greg Fast.
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I have many of my grandfather's song/hymn books and also my mom's. I am 64 and I love these old songs. I hate to think that my family will probably throw them all out when I am gone. I can't do much about that, except sing them every day, til my last breath.
I am a lover of classic southern gospel music but the hymns . . . oh, how the hymns minister to my soul when no other song can. As a singer of church specials I've started incorporating more hymns into the rotation. My mom warned me that would happen one day. 😃
Good hymnbooks have at least 1,300 years worth of Christian Hymns. There are a few different methods of cataloging and identifying and enabling the matching of poems to other tunes. It is how we ended up with the tune for Amazing Grace we sing today (Did you know you could sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "Joy to the World?" It is right there in the back of a good hymnal, in the Metrical Index!).
But it has all been ignored... destroyed. Our fathers passed it to us, and we dropped it because of money and fear. Money motivated the Christian Entertainment Industry to crank out music that would compete with the hippies, and we feared that we would lose the next generation if we didn't throw away the previous generations. The baton was passed to us, and we threw it on the ground and stepped on it.