Lots of weird dreams going around . . . .

[kiya]

This one is pretty hazy compared to a lot of the ones I've seen reported on my friends page, and a lot of it I'm not really feeling up to explaining even in the non-hazy bits.

But I woke up and spent about twenty minutes trying to figure out what hymn was involved. Now I've remembered the song, and I can look it up (I just had the music; while the dream involved words, I didn't actually dream the words).

Ah. #302.

I wonder if this signifies anything, overall.

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[kiya]

One of the Easter pieces. First United always played this one for Easter services. All the Alleluias. . . . That's what was in my head, mostly, the alleluias. I got the last line of . . . *flip flip flip* third verse first, aside from alleluias, and chewed at it for a while before I could find the first.

"Christ the Lord is Risen Today". A-a-a-a-le-e-lu-u-ia!

Earwormed!

I suspect mine is fairly close to recent. Though I got it off Amazon, so who knows.

[brooksmoses]

Ah, yes. That one. :)

I'd suspect yours is recent; they did a major revision in ... 1989, I think, and our church decided to actually buy a set of the new ones five or so years later. They haven't, to my knowledge, changed since, and I think that before that they'd been the same for quite a while.

Er, actually, I have a Companion to the United Methodist Hymnal; this history is exactly the sort of thing it contains. And, as it happens, it says that the previous revision was in 1966, shortly before they became the United Methodists (which arose from a joining of the main branch of the Methodist Church with the Evangelical United Brethren Church). So, if yours says United Methodist Hymnal, it's the recent one.

Incidentally, for earworms, consider that "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" was apparently associated with this tune before it got its current one....

- Brooks

[kiya]

Incidentally, for earworms, consider that "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" was apparently associated with this tune before it got its current one....

Nnnr. Now my mind hurts to go with my headache. . . .

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I used to be very good at knowing alternate tunes for the same hymns and holding both in my mind at once, as my school was High Church and my church was Low Church C of E. (The difference used to be that High Church Anglican was more Catholic, with priests called "Father", the Eucharist called "Mass" and use of incense, whereas Low Church was more Methodist, with a simple altar cloth and modern church decoration and hymns. But I don't know if that still applies). I actually managed to get part of the way through "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" with the alleluia Easter hymn before my brain gave up. If I was still in practice, I could probably do it.

What an entirely useless skill to find myself with!