hymnbooks

When pianos and organs became common in churches, a capella singing began to disappear, along with the complicated harmonies in the old hymnbooks.

Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Many parishes have made the huge mistake of carpeting their church space because someone on someone on some know-nothing committee thought that the carpet made the place feel warmer and friendly — like a living room — and perhaps too, someone found the echoes of children crying or hymnbooks dropping to be annoying.

Rip up those carpets! 2009

It means, in effect, not having to replace all the music in the loft and buy new hymnbooks with the new texts.

Sung Settings of the Mass Ordinary, New ICEL 2009

Cook's group of more than a dozen interested singers sat facing Cook as the song leader, holding wide-page hymnbooks filled with notes in the shapes of open and solid squares, diamonds, triangles and ovals.

Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010

One thing speakers of English can be thankful for is that most of their hymnbooks do not contain any words to use to the tune of Jingle Bells ... or the music.

Deliberations on O Holy Night « Unknowing 2009

The songs may have archaic, cryptic names such as "Old Hundred," better known in many hymnbooks as the doxology; "Amazing Grace" appears in shape-note books as "New Britain."

Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Though abstract theology, wooden benches, and dusty hymnbooks appear to be a thing of the past, many Americans today are still searching for something to shake them out of the ruts and mediocrity of so much of their daily existence.

God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

Though abstract theology, wooden benches, and dusty hymnbooks appear to be a thing of the past, many Americans today are still searching for something to shake them out of the ruts and mediocrity of so much of their daily existence.

God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

Though abstract theology, wooden benches, and dusty hymnbooks appear to be a thing of the past, many Americans today are still searching for something to shake them out of the ruts and mediocrity of so much of their daily existence.

God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

When Pastor Doe announced Blessed Assurance, everyone opened their hymnbooks except me, Vicky, and Eunice.

The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009