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What is a Hymnal?
The word 'Hymnal' is not a common term and many people ask the questions ' What is a Hymnal - What is the meaning of the word Hymnal?' Definition of Hymnal - A Hymnal is a collection of Church Hymns. The word Hymnal is derived from the Middle English hymnale and from Medieval Latin word hymnus.

This App contains the standard hymns for Seventh Day Adventist Church for your worship. + Lyrics and Tunes for all the SDA Hymns + a Total of about 3900+ hymns and Tunes. You’ve got to add some spice to your services, some pow to your proceedings, some mambo to your ministry. But if you really care about the souls in your congregation, you’re not just looking at adding a few more Chris Tomlin or Hillsong tunes to your stale old stable of hymns—you’re looking to throw in some secular songs for maximum.

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A virtual, paperless Online Hymnal!
For centuries a collection of church hymns could only be found in a Church Hymn Book but with the development of technology and access to the Internet, or the World Wide Web (www), it became possible to create a virtual Hymn Book, or Hymnal. A free, virtual collection of online Hymns - a virtual, paperless Online Hymnal! This Hymns website, or Online Hymnal, contains hundreds of Church Hymns.

We’re having an interesting discussion about the WHI show on “happy-clappy” worship. One of the things for which I have been “banging the drum” is the need for contemporary settings of the Psalms. I love the Book of Psalms for Singing. There are some great tunes there and I love the singable Genevan tunes. We ought to keep all the good, older singable tunes. I know there are about 5-6 tunes for Ps 23 but crimond is the only one that I care to sing. I can’t imagine that will change — but I suppose it could.

Nevertheless, we are saddled with a lot of tunes for the psalms in the Psalter-Hymnal (CRC 1959) and in the BoPforS that are not singable. Okay, perhaps we need to work on it a little more, but as non-Reformed and non-Christian folk walk into our services how much dare we ask of them? Not only must we ask of them to learn our vocabulary — this is non-negotiable — and our faith but our cultural forms as well? I doubt that.

I’m sure that there are contemporary musicians (of which I am not one!) who can write appropriate contemporary tunes for the psalms. We need tunes that can be sung by congregations of all ages (5-90), that come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, and that are intended to be sung by groups and that reflect the tone of the psalm being sung. That’s a tall order.

Traditionalists (“that’s the way we’ve always done it”) need to move beyond the assumption that “reverent” means “classical, European” and contemporary (“Shine, Jesus Shine”) folk need to realize that there is more to worship tunes than the same schmaltzy do-wop line over and over (does anyone realize how much CCM is just do-wop music?) We need Irish/celtic tunes, we need African tunes, we need Latin tunes, we need ancient tunes. We need a collection of tunes that aren’t written ONLY for little old ladies (here I’m thinking of the blue Trinity Hymnal in which every tune seems to be set so high that only ladies of a certain age can sing them). I’m still not sure what syncopation is, but I hear it’s a had idea for congregational singing.

The Trinity Psalter is a good start, inasmuch as it uses mainly familiar American tunes, and there are a number of other Psalters that have appeared in recent years, but few of them incorporate many contemporary tunes. I hear that the OPC is working on a psalter, but that’s all I know. The most recent Psalter-Hymnal uses some interesting tunes but the newer red Trinity Hymnal has the psalms scattered throughout so that one needs the spiritual gift of “finding psalms” to locate them. I don’t have any proof, but I’m convinced that the old TH was that way to spite Mr Murray. I don’t understand why the newer (red) TH did this. I don’t understand it at all.

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As you can probably tell, I don’t usually know much about what I write here and on this topic I know less than usual. I don’t read music. I don’t write it. In worship, I follow the precenter or, if needs be, the instrumentalist. Still, I can tell when the congregation can’t sing a tune and I can tell when a tune just isn’t appropriate for sacred worship.

Some contemporary forms are not appropriate because they are not intended to be sung by congregations. E.g. rap music arose as a way of highlighting an individual performer. Rock music is not intended, ordinarily, to be sung by large groups. At least do-wop music can be sung a cappella by large groups but it lacks the necessary reverence to be used in public worship and rock music that is slowed down becomes schmaltzy and goofy and thereby disqualified. Elevator music is not appropriate for public worship. Andy Williams and Elvis tunes are not appropriate for public worship — I don’t sing “How Great Thou Art” for the same reasons I don’t sing “In the Garden:” 1) it’s non-canonical; 2) It’s schmaltzy and sentimental and inappropriate to public worship. Tunes that are intended to manipulate the emotions are inappropriate. Any tune that is played over the speakers at Wal-Mart in ipso facto out.

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Here’s something to think about. We sang a psalm yesterday that was arranged by Sullivan of “Gilbert and Sullivan” fame. If one knows G&S one can tell that it is a Sullivan tune. One can almost here it as the stereo blasts, “I am an Englishman.” That was once a contemporary tune. The associations it must have had when it was done must have been quite strong. Light opera isn’t sacred worship, but the tune works. It’s simple, singable, and the its tone seems to fit the psalm.