Appropriate Sacrament Meeting Music

[Pahoran]

That and "Hark All Ye Nations". I REALLY hate that hymn and I really dislike the more "bouncy hymns".

As a matter of fact, I prefer the "bouncy" hymns. It's the slow hymns that I grow tired of.

When I was in my first year of Seminary, at the start of each class the teacher used to ask for a suggestion for an opening hymn. There was another student who used to blurt out "Truth Reflects upon Our Senses!" before anyone else got a chance to think of anything else, much less say it.

By the end of the first term, I was heartily sick of TRUOS, and I've never quite recovered.

Regards,

Pahoran

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

Sing “A poor Wayfaring Man of Grief’…can never go wrong with this, or “Oh My Father”. Or even better “Oh My Pa Pa”.

[William Schryver]

As a matter of fact, I prefer the "bouncy" hymns. It's the slow hymns that I grow tired of.

I like a good mixture of this somewhat arbitrary and imprecise division into "bouncy" and "slow."

A few of the more up-tempo hymns that immediately come to mind are:

Come, Rejoice

The Morning Breaks ...

Now Let Us Rejoice

Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

Redeemer of Israel

Hope of Israel

A Mighty Fortress

How Firm a Foundation

Press Forward, Saints

Among many others.

When I was in my first year of Seminary, at the start of each class the teacher used to ask for a suggestion for an opening hymn. There was another student who used to blurt out "Truth Reflects upon Our Senses!" before anyone else got a chance to think of anything else, much less say it.

By the end of the first term, I was heartily sick of TRUOS, and I've never quite recovered.

That hymn has never done it for me, either.

[bluebell]

I detest True to the Faith.

First, it makes no sense for converts to be singing "true to the faith that our parents have cherished" and second, that part where the we have to sing 'no', or 'yes' is just horrible. HORRIBLE. You can almost feel the congregation rolling their eyes.

I be happy if In Our Lovely Deseret went away as well.

Instead, i think we should sing All Creatures of our God and King way more often.

[seriously honestly]

I was in a meeting once where someone made "Oh Holy Night" inappropriate, the singer belted the song out and entirely too loud, his style of singing was great for an opera but not for a Church meeting.

I would hardy call such "inapprapriate", and honestly I think some people are just way too sensitve to anything outside the normal ever sunday to sunday style of music.

Several years ago we had someone sing that song, and his voice was opera style--very commanding, you could say. It was amazing, and was one of the most moving Christmas meetings I remember in the LDS church because of the passion in which he sang of the Savior's birth.

[MorningStar]

I detest True to the Faith.

First, it makes no sense for converts to be singing "true to the faith that our parents have cherished" and second, that part where the we have to sing 'no', or 'yes' is just horrible. HORRIBLE. You can almost feel the congregation rolling their eyes.

I be happy if In Our Lovely Deseret went away as well.

Instead, i think we should sing All Creatures of our God and King way more often.

I'll have to demonstrate sometime how my sister and I sing that part in True to the Faith. It's a horrible scoop/warble. Oh and the song "Now let us rejoice" - we laughed every time we got to, "And none will molest them from morn until eve". I think that had a different meaning when that song was written. Sounds so wrong.

[Que]

i think we should sing All Creatures of our God and King way more often.

Hear hear!

And Silent Night is my least favorite christmas hymn... ain't explainin' - just is

Q

[Que]

Perfect pitch is a curse in such circumstances. It really is physically painful to me.

Perfect pitch is the sound an accordian makes when you throw it in a dumpster and it hits a ukelele

Q

[William Schryver]

Perfect pitch is the sound an accordian makes when you throw it in a dumpster and it hits a ukelele

Q

I'm actually quite fond of the accordian. In fact, I'm looking to buy one, or at least find someone who plays one well and is willing to accompany me singing/playing this song, which I have recently learned:

[Que]

I'm actually quite fond of the accordian.

I was sure you had your hidden vices - mine is that I like bagpipes...

[Duncan]

Hear hear!

And Silent Night is my least favorite christmas hymn... ain't explainin' - just is

Q

Que, you and me will sit together at Christmas stuff and have a collective Yak together when they play that song!

[MorningStar]

Silent Night rules, heathen!

[Duncan]

Silent Night rules, heathen!

Quiet you, Que and I have some ralphing to do come Christmas!

[blackstrap]

I find "the time is far spent" to be highly appropriate as a closing hymn after long winded High Council sermon.

I also like "How Firm a Foundation" but prefer the older rendition when it was the "youhoo"song.

I vote for the "marijuana" song. I'll let you guess which that one is.

As a secondary point, too many times the congregational hymns in sacrament meeting are sung as funerial as possible. I thought that " man is that he might have JOY" Not much joy at a funeral. I prefer David's answer to the complaints of his wife when he brought the ark back.

[blackstrap]

I find "the time is far spent" to be highly appropriate as a closing hymn after long winded High Council sermon.

I also like "How Firm a Foundation" but prefer the older rendition when it was the "youhoo"song.

I vote for the "marijuana" song. I'll let you guess which that one is.

As a secondary point, too many times the congregational hymns in sacrament meeting are sung as funerial as possible. I thought that " man is that he might have JOY" Not much joy at a funeral. I prefer David's answer to the complaints of his wife when he brought the ark back.

[blackstrap]

Did I mention I like repetitions ?

[USU78]

I'm actually quite fond of the accordian. In fact, I'm looking to buy one, or at least find someone who plays one well and is willing to accompany me singing/playing this song, which I have recently learned:

The definition of a "True Gentleman" is a man who can play the accordian . . . but doesn't.

[Pahoran]

I find "the time is far spent" to be highly appropriate as a closing hymn after long winded High Council sermon.

On one occasion in a Sacrament meeting where the speakers ran over time (I wasn't one of the speakers, just BTW) the bishopric member conducting announced that we would sing only the first verse of the closing hymn, which was, "The Time is Far Spent."

I also like "How Firm a Foundation" but prefer the older rendition when it was the "youhoo"song.

I vote for the "marijuana" song. I'll let you guess which that one is.

We Are Sowing?

Regards,

Pahoran

[blackstrap]

Sorry Pahoran ,think... up...

[seriously honestly]

Sorry Pahoran ,think... up...

High on the mountain top?

[blackstrap]

You got it !!!

[Bernard Gui]

Some of my favorites-

Let Them Out and Shout for Joy!

Did You Air Your Room This Morning?

When I was a kid, someone in our branch would create stories in the hymn book by linking hymn titles, writing "go to #56" or whatever next to the title. The story progressed as you followed the links.

And there's "world-wide commotion from ocean to ocean."

That's hard to sing with a straight face.

I can't sing Truth Reflects Upon our Senses because it has the same tune as the old Bluegrass song Laf is Lak a Mountn Railway. I always hear that twang.

My mother was instrumental in having a verse deleted from For the Strenghth of the Hills. She and dad were serving a mission in the Pueblo tribes area of New Mexico and were somewhat chagrined to sing about the "red untutored Indians seeking their rude delights." She wrote the Church music committee and that verse was gone in the next

edition.

Bernard

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

Did You Air Your Room This Morning?

Bernard

I forgot...

[DispensatorMysteriorum]

Apologies to the Evan Stephens lovers out there, but his music just doesn't appeal to me. Never has.

Not even "Lean on My Ample Arm?"

[Deborah]

I played the accordian when I was young. I wanted to take piano lessons but we couldn't afford it so my mom bought an accordian and I learned to play that. It was white and gold. I think it lasted a year. Don't ask me to play one now.

I love bagpipes, and the Tabernacle choir has sung some hymns with bagpipes. If I recall they did a rendition of Amazing Grace with bagpipes which was amazing (pardon the pun).