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To: maryz
He's RIGHT!

We shouldn't be singing much of anything that hasn't passed the 100-year test. 200-year test is even better!

The Episcopal Hymnal is full of grand old Catholic hymns -- if you look in the back for the source materials, there is Gregorian chant all over the place and old (15th-16th c.) German Catholic hymnals as well as the standbys everybody knows (like "Crown Him With Many Crowns" and "The Church's One Foundation"). Really they have done a better job of conserving the Catholic musical patrimony than the Catholics have.

I'm going to give our music director the large organist's edition (spiral bound in cloth; two volumes) for Christmas.

13 posted on 11/02/2007 3:47:08 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother
The Episcopal Hymnal is full of grand old Catholic hymns

I'll have to get me one of those sometime!

16 posted on 11/02/2007 4:06:20 PM PDT by maryz
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