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Just making preparations for song-leading at Carey graduation, and spotted this gem of a line, which opens the fourth verse of Henry van Dyke’s hymn (to the tune of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Hymn to Joy), Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee: Mortals join the mighty chorus, which the morning stars began… I love the thought of all of the vast ages . . . → Read More: the mighty chorus My little summer project (“Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to record a dozen of your favourite hymns?”) is done, and can be downloaded for free (or donation) here: http://dalecampbell.bandcamp.com/ Way back when I used to want to be the next Chris Tomlin (because we don’t have enough worship leaders), I remember starting a “worship band” (because we don’t have enough worship bands). I actually got us all together for I think one jam-slash-practice… Looking back, they were actually pretty stinking solid musically. A patient, and accurate drummer, a skilled . . . → Read More: yes i did that… second verse by Cohen: And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said “All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them” But he himself was broken Long before . . . → Read More: suzanne They’re meant to reinforce one another. I just had lunch with a friend, and we talked about how much fun it was learning the 5 different fretboard patterns of pentatonic (five-tone) scales on the guitar. When his practice was less developed, music theory had seemed boring and irrelevant to him, but now it was exciting and directly relevant. It’s like . . . → Read More: theory & practice One of many references that show that ‘judgment’ does not always mean (negatively) ‘to damn’ or ‘to punish’, etc., but can have positive connotations. Isaiah 11:4a “…but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.” This Hebrew parallelism has three pairs, with the second term being a . . . → Read More: judging Proverbs 22:7 – “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” A friend recently (and wisely) observed that this is unfortunately ‘heard’/’taken’ as a command rather than as a lamentation. Which made me think about how much interpretation we can do even with simple sentences. The above verse could be (mis)understood in the . . . → Read More: reading I wonder if Psalm 80 wasn’t a favourite of the particularly zealous 1st century Jews who would have been pleased to see the Romans overthrown by a long hoped-for military Messiah?1 I can imagine this Psalm being sung in the Synagogues of the day… and I can imagine John the Baptist – and later, Jesus – countering their use of . . . → Read More: i wonder… The following is not intended as a theistic proof, but it is yet another of countless points of ‘resonance’ with belief in a Creator. I was just thinking last night about how deeply human or ‘anthropocentric’ music is. Whilst we can anthropomorphise and talk about the ‘song’ of the bluebird, or the rhythm of the cicadas or crickets, these animals . . . → Read More: musical bodies metanoia (Grk μετανοια) means literally “after-thought” or a change of mind or repentance. Two songs from Johnny Cash’s album, American IV, contrast a repentant person with an unrepentant person. The contrast is striking – between the person who ‘hangs his head’ (eventually in prayerful repentance in the last verse) and the person who ‘damns’ everyone (or more particularly, their eyes!). . . . → Read More: cash for repentance |
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