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  • Generally this service is paired with a traditional service where the organ and German hymn-tunes reign.

    What IS Contemporary Worship? Christine Robinson 2008

  • Generally this service is paired with a traditional service where the organ and German hymn-tunes reign.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Christine Robinson 2008

  • So she only gave a martyrised look, and left the room; and while we partook of the very unnecessary repast, was good enough to sing some hymn-tunes to an exceedingly slow movement in the next room, intimating that she was awake, and that, though suffering, she found her consolations in religion.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • His short autobiographical novel, Fry the Little Fishes, gives a graphic picture of the urban poverty in which he grew up and also of the music which was to inform his song-making: comic music-hall songs, hymn-tunes, sentimental ballads. and scurrilous parodies.

    The poet, the worker and the professional 2002

  • ‘George Joseph Smith played hymn-tunes on an American organ when he had drowned each of his wives in the bath,’ observed Dame Beatrice.

    The Murder of Busy Lizzie Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1973

  • _Rebekah_, _Ps.xcvii. _, many services and anthems, and two hundred and forty-six hymn-tunes (published in 1897 in one volume), as well as some part-songs (among them the popular "Sweet and Low"), and some pieces for the organ.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • Noble, the first pastor, the name was changed to Bangor, the name of one of his favourite hymn-tunes.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • It all came before him in a flash: the village church, and the swinging oil-lamps above the pews; he and Jane together in Miss Abingdon's pew, and Mrs. Wrottesley playing the old hymn-tunes on the little organ.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • Nearly all the popular collections will be found to have about the same proportions of the permanent and the transient elements, -- on the one hand, the old chorals and hymn-tunes consecrated by centuries of solemn worship, -- on the other, the compositions and "arrangements" of the editors.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • It was one of the grand and solemn ancient hymn-tunes which are introduced at certain stages of this composition.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

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