OK - how does that definition differentiate between hymns, psalms, spiritual songs, praise choruses, gospel music, etc?
I would submit the world's definition is irrelevant to the redeemed community.
No - it has to fit certain structural and stylistic criteria.If you mean a song can only be called a hymn if it is in some old book from a Church;
No - it has to fit certain structural and stylistic criteria.
And to go with what you suggest leaves out Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts. If you want to include 20th century GOSPEL hymns, then you have to also exclude Albert Brumley. (I met him in 1970)to put up a hymn thread and exclude those people that have never seen a hymn; you exclude those people out.
No - it has to fit certain structural and stylistic criteria.
And to go with what you suggest leaves out Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts. If you want to include 20th century GOSPEL hymns, then you have to also exclude Albert Brumley. (I met him in 1970)
I have not seen any dictionary that subdivides out the definitions of Hymn, psalm, spiritual song, etc. All secular dictionaries and musical dictionaries I have seen lump them all in together.I still don't know what they are.
That is a mindset, and an incorrect one at that, IMO.That's the trouble about things aging; things of the past are left in the dust; it's the way of time; which stands still for no man.
And to go with what you suggest leaves out Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts. If you want to include 20th century GOSPEL hymns, then you have to also exclude Albert Brumley. (I met him in 1970)
We Thank Thee - Jim Reeves
This record takes me back to the days of my youth - it was very popular in our house. I can't remember if that particular record had God be with you till we meet again on it, but my mother couldn't bear to listen to that - it made her very weepy.
Gillian
Oh I remember listening to Jim Reeves! he did an LP with hymns.This record takes me back to the days of my youth - it was very popular in our house. I can't remember if that particular record had God be with you till we meet again on it, but my mother couldn't bear to listen to that - it made her very weepy.
Gillian