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My husband, older daughter and I have just joined our local church choir. Imagine my surprise and delight when at our first evensong we begin to sing Ken Naylor's hymn tune Coe Fen to the words 'How Shall I Sing that Majesty" (that we hadn't practiced on the preceding Friday night!). I remember singing it at school a couple of times but never since. It is a fabulous tune, rousingly old-fashioned in parts but with a couple of modern twists and a superb organ accompaniment. Anyone else sung it outside CH?
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I'll have to look it up, I'm not one of these people that can remember a tune from the name - I need someone to hum it (tough on an internet forum) or dots (equally difficult). I'll go away and do some research. If I remember.cj wrote:My husband, older daughter and I have just joined our local church choir. Imagine my surprise and delight when at our first evensong we begin to sing Ken Naylor's hymn tune Coe Fen to the words 'How Shall I Sing that Majesty" (that we hadn't practiced on the preceding Friday night!). I remember singing it at school a couple of times but never since. It is a fabulous tune, rousingly old-fashioned in parts but with a couple of modern twists and a superb organ accompaniment. Anyone else sung it outside CH?
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Dum dum dee dum, dum dum dum dee dum ....Ruthie-Baby wrote:I need someone to hum it ...
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Ken Naylor's tune Coe Fen has made it into the latest CofE hymn book, Common Praise, which effectively replaces Hymns A&M. Ken wrote a descant to the tune for a meeting of the Music Masters Assocation hed at CH when Peter Allwood was its president. asik the descant has yet to be published outside CH although it may well be in the new CH Hymn Book. Our choir and congregation at Cartmel Priory in Cumbria sing the tune with great gusto. I always start to choke in verse three. Must be the many funerals at which I have heard it sung - including that for Ken Naylor.
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thank you so much.cj wrote:Dum dum dee dum, dum dum dum dee dum ....Ruthie-Baby wrote:I need someone to hum it ...
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Is that really true? All the CofE churches I've been to recently use the New English Hymnal, I've never heard of Common Praise.jdshippen wrote:... the latest CofE hymn book, Common Praise, which effectively replaces Hymns A&M.
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Ah! Yes! Thanks Catherine - I think I've got it now.cj wrote:Dum dum dee dum, dum dum dum dee dum ....Ruthie-Baby wrote:I need someone to hum it ...
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Well the NEH is a bit like A&M revised, but they've brought some of the tunes down a bit so there's only an occasional top E for the poor sops (or even poorer altos if it's unison!)Great Plum wrote:We use something else, but it is appalling and I think they may change this soon - our choirmaster and organist is threatening to burn all the hymn books!
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in that case you need the NEH. There's only a few reworded hymns that I've noticed...Great Plum wrote:Ours has 'modern' stuff in it as well - but they reworded all the good hymns to make them useless frankly!
Why does no one accept that the word 'man' refers to huMANkind...???
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