National Baptist Congress of Christian Education
Dr. Elliott Cuff, Congress President Dr. Carl Washington, Congress Dean
Dr. Jerry Young, Convention President
Tuesday - Great Hymns of the Church
QUESTIONS WE MAY HAVE AND HAVE NOT ASKED?
1. Why do we sing Hymns?
a. To praise God - Worship
b. To Teach
c. To pray and meditate
d. To unify our thoughts
e. To reach people for Christ
2. What is a Hymn? (WRITE IN YOUR INTERPRETATION)
3. How can I understand the Hymnal?
a. Scripture
b. Theology
c. doctrine
d. indexes
e. anthology
f. poetry
g. history
1. Church Hymns
2. Gospel Hymns
3. Funeral Hymns
4. Thanksgiving
5. Christmas Hymns
6. Easter Hymns
7. Mother’s Day Hymns
Hymns
8. Wedding Hymns Wedding Music in the Baptist Church?????
9. Children Hymns
10. Short Meter
11. Long Meter
“HYMNS IN THE BLACK CHURCH WHERE ARE THEY AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
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1. Lined
a. Hymn Lining: A Black Church Tradition with Roots in Europe
b.Southern Mississippi
What is black church hymn lining?
What is hymn lining? Also called lining-out, raising a hymn, or precenting a line - is unaccompanied sacred singing in which a leader chants a line, and the congregation sings that line in response.
Where did the tradition of lined out hymns come from?
Unlike the Southern a cappella tradition of sacred harp or shape-note singing, linedout hymns have no musical notation. People listen, and they sing. The tradition began when churches did not have songbooks.
a musical practice and tradition of social singing from music books printed in shape notes. Shape notes are a variant system of Western musical notation whereby the note heads are printed in distinct shapes to indicate their scale degree and solmization syllable (fa, sol, la, etc.).
What is a Hymn?
• EDITH MARGARET CLARKSON SAYS THAT A hymn is an expression of worship—our glad and grateful acknowledgement of the "worth-ship" of Almighty God, our confession of our own creatureliness before our Creator, our bowing before his transcendence. Hymns are a celebration of who and what God is and of what he has done— songs of praise, thanksgiving, and joy in God. Christians sing hymns because our God is worthy to be praised.
Why is it important to sing hymns in worship?
Singing hymns is a way to give thanks to God for every blessing we have in Jesus. Singing hymns is also supposed to be a heart response. The physical act of singing does not create worship. It needs to be sung from the heart.
What is a hymn of worship?
A hymn is an expression of worship—our glad and grateful acknowledgement of the "worth-ship" of Almighty God, our confession of our own creatureliness before our Creator, our bowing before his transcendence. Hymns are a celebration of who and what God is and of what he has done— songs of praise, thanksgiving, and joy in God.
What are the old songs of the black church? (LIST SOME THAT YOU KNOW)
2. Metered
a. The meter of a hymn is the organization of the hymn's rhythm.
b. Long metered (Rev. Timothy Flemings)
c. Short metered
i. A short meter hymn consists of a stanza of four lines and a poetic foot composed of a short, unaccented syllable and long, unaccented syllable. The first, second and fourth lines of a short meter hymn each contain six syllables and the third line contains eight syllables. "The Day Is Past and Gone" is an example of a short meter hymn.
3. Contemporary/Modern Hymns
a. Here are some thoughts to help clarify differences between traditional hymns and praise and worship songs. A hymn is a formal song, sung to God in public worship, typically by the entire congregation. Technically speaking, a hymn consists of words only, while the music to which a hymn is sung is the hymn tune.
4. What is the most popular hymn?
a. The 25 Most Popular Christian Hymns 1. Amazing Grace – John Newton, England (1779) 2. How Great Thou Art – Carl Gustav Boberg, Sweden (1885) 3. Holy, Holy, Holy – Reginald Heiber, England (1826) 4. It is Well – Horacio Spafford, written in the Atlantic Ocean (1873) 5. Great Is Thy Faithfulness – Thomas Chisholm, Kansas, USA (1923)
5. What is the oldest Christian hymn?
a. The Oxyrhynchus hymn is the oldest known Christian Greek hymn containing both lyrics and a melody. It was found on Papyrus 1786 of the Oxyrhynchus papyri (thousands of ancient manuscripts discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt) in 1918. Contains both lyrics and a melody.
6. What does hymns mean in Christian?
a. A hymn is a song of praise. In ancient Greek culture, a hymnos was musical praise directed to the gods or heroes of the day. In Christianity, hymns are directed to the one true God, of course. God’s people have sung hymns in honor of the Almighty since the time of Moses and before (Exodus 15:1).
7. What is the first song in the Christian hymns?
a. e Deum, also called A Song of the Church and Ambrosian Hymn, is one of the earliest Christian songs of praise. The hymn was most likely written by Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine in 387 CE, to celebrate Augustine's baptism.
1. Which of these are NOT hymns? WHY or WHY NOT
a. A Charge to Keep I Have
b. Holy Holy Holy
c. Silent Night
d. O Come All Ye Faithful
2. YOU TUBE =
3. Sing to the Lord: Large Print - Words Only Hymnal Hardcover - Large Print, November 1, 1993 by Ken Bible (Editor)
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