SoyLeche
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Are there any songs you are specifically wanting to see kept or gone from the new Hymn Book?
Looking at the spreadsheet I kept when I was in charge of choosing the Sacrament Meeting music (yes, I kept a spreadsheet and I'm not ashamed), in 2 1/2 years there were more than half (187 out of 341) of the songs I never touched - moslty because I had no idea what the song was like and had no real interest in trying to figure it out. For referece, in the time I was in charge we sang a total of 260 songs, so we didn't have time to sing all of them anyway - but my spreadsheet helped me know that I wasn't just missing some songs that I knew
Anyway - There are several very popular songs that will hopefully stay (The Spirit of God, High on the Mountain Top, etc). I'd like to keep most of the Sacrament Hymns (maybe just pick a tune for While of These Emblems We Partake and 'Tis Sweet to Sing the Matchless Love and go with them...). The Christmas songs are fine - maybe we can get a couple good new ones in there.
It would be nice to have something other than "Ring Out Wild Bells" to sing around New Year's, and we could stand for a few more specific Easter hymns.
Get rid of the Patriotic songs, and any that are pretty much exclusively about Utah (Our Mountain Home So Dear, and In Our Lovely Deseret needs to go for many, many reasons).
Come Thou Fount will probably be put back in, although in my opinion that's a better choir piece than a congregational one. I've heard people say that they'd like to see "Amazing Grace", but I hope not - it's pretty and all, but there really isn't much to that song and I think we can do better.
There were several thousand new songs written and submitted, so hopefully we'll see some really good new stuff. My mother-in-law wrote a couple new ones, and I think one of them has a chance, but probably not.
A friend on facebook posted these, which I got a kick out of...
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
Looking at the spreadsheet I kept when I was in charge of choosing the Sacrament Meeting music (yes, I kept a spreadsheet and I'm not ashamed), in 2 1/2 years there were more than half (187 out of 341) of the songs I never touched - moslty because I had no idea what the song was like and had no real interest in trying to figure it out. For referece, in the time I was in charge we sang a total of 260 songs, so we didn't have time to sing all of them anyway - but my spreadsheet helped me know that I wasn't just missing some songs that I knew
Anyway - There are several very popular songs that will hopefully stay (The Spirit of God, High on the Mountain Top, etc). I'd like to keep most of the Sacrament Hymns (maybe just pick a tune for While of These Emblems We Partake and 'Tis Sweet to Sing the Matchless Love and go with them...). The Christmas songs are fine - maybe we can get a couple good new ones in there.
It would be nice to have something other than "Ring Out Wild Bells" to sing around New Year's, and we could stand for a few more specific Easter hymns.
Get rid of the Patriotic songs, and any that are pretty much exclusively about Utah (Our Mountain Home So Dear, and In Our Lovely Deseret needs to go for many, many reasons).
Come Thou Fount will probably be put back in, although in my opinion that's a better choir piece than a congregational one. I've heard people say that they'd like to see "Amazing Grace", but I hope not - it's pretty and all, but there really isn't much to that song and I think we can do better.
There were several thousand new songs written and submitted, so hopefully we'll see some really good new stuff. My mother-in-law wrote a couple new ones, and I think one of them has a chance, but probably not.
A friend on facebook posted these, which I got a kick out of...
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
