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AMAZING GRACE AND SPIRITUALS…

AMAZING GRACE AND SPIRITUALS…

This past week, I came across this YouTube of Wintley Phipps at a Gaither concert.  I learned a lot of musicology from him in this clip.  Such as the scale for spirituals (5 notes) that is different from the one we are used to that has 8 notes. The melodies of...
AMAZING GRACE AND SPIRITUALS…

WHY SHOULD I FEAR?…

This is a song we sang this past Sunday.  I’m in the process of learning it and am enjoying it very much. Change, particularly when it comes to music in church is not always easy to navigate.  It is much easier to sing all the favorites from the past. Music is...
AMAZING GRACE AND SPIRITUALS…

WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE…

Philip Bliss (1838-1876) was the author and composer of this and many other gospel songs.  In my life time, I have heard and sung most of them, but if you are just now learning hymns, these may not be as familiar to you. His life was cut short by a train wreck when he...
AMAZING GRACE AND SPIRITUALS…

BREAK THOU THE BREAD OF LIFE…

Mary Lathbury wrote the words to the 3rd and 4th verses to this hymn, Break Throu the Bread of Life.  She wrote quite a few other hymns as well but the most well known of the others is probably Day is Dying in the West. She was born in Manchester, NY to a Methodist...
AMAZING GRACE AND SPIRITUALS…

IN CHRIST ALONE MY HOPE IS FOUND…

This hymn was a collaborative effort between Stuart Townend and Keith Getty. Stuart grew up in the home of a vicar in the Church of England.  He was the youngest of four children.    His family enjoyed music and he learned to play the piano at age 7.  He has written...