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Debbie
Yes, congratulations celticangel. I'd just ask the pastor to borrow a hymnal though.mutepointe wrote:Steal one of your church songbooks
Somehow worshippers got through two thousand years being fully uplifted before the gearchange modulation was co-opted from pop music 30-odd years ago.Feadoggie wrote: The modulation of a chorus or verse up a half step or two at the end of a hymn is perceived by the worshipers as being "uplifting".
The guy, provided we are talking about Chris Tomlin, that added the bridge was doing so for a specific reason. He was commissioned to provide a piece for a movie about William Wilberforce and his efforts in ending the slave trade in Britain and in the context of the movie that was what worked. Because that arrangement has had a positive emotional impact on many congregations, it is widely played now. There are many other arrangements which climb on the back of that particular hymn as well as many others.pancelticpiper wrote:A perfect example is the guy who felt that Amazing Grace just wasn't adequate as it was, and had to have a pop-music "bridge" added. (Traditional hymns normally have a single melodic unit, lacking pop music's requisite verse/chorus/bridge structure.)
Like this guy, what was his name... you know, he used to modulate quite a bit in church music... uh... Johnny B.?Feadoggie wrote:Modulation is not a 30 year old kid. It has been used in church music all my life - double the 30 years plus. I suspect some congregations have used it far longer.
I'm in that film! Second fiddle in the string quartet on the ship when Wilberforce gives his keynote speech.Feadoggie wrote:The guy, provided we are talking about Chris Tomlin, that added the bridge was doing so for a specific reason. He was commissioned to provide a piece for a movie about William Wilberforce and his efforts in ending the slave trade in Britain and in the context of the movie that was what worked.pancelticpiper wrote:A perfect example is the guy who felt that Amazing Grace just wasn't adequate as it was, and had to have a pop-music "bridge" added. (Traditional hymns normally have a single melodic unit, lacking pop music's requisite verse/chorus/bridge structure.)
benhall.1 wrote:I'm in that film! Second fiddle in the string quartet on the ship when Wilberforce gives his keynote speech.Feadoggie wrote:The guy, provided we are talking about Chris Tomlin, that added the bridge was doing so for a specific reason. He was commissioned to provide a piece for a movie about William Wilberforce and his efforts in ending the slave trade in Britain and in the context of the movie that was what worked.pancelticpiper wrote:A perfect example is the guy who felt that Amazing Grace just wasn't adequate as it was, and had to have a pop-music "bridge" added. (Traditional hymns normally have a single melodic unit, lacking pop music's requisite verse/chorus/bridge structure.)