Hymn Tune Writing Month

[artsyhonker]

Some people do something called "NaNoWriMo": National Novel Writing Month, in November.

I had the thought yesterday that I might do something similar but with hymn tunes. The idea is to write thirty of them in thirty days.

This post is a placeholder for collecting texts and doing bits of planning...

If you've written a hymn text and released it under a Creative Commons license, please feel free to leave it in comments, or link to it there. If there's an existing public domain hymn text that has a rubbish tune and you think it could do with another, please do likewise.

Comments

[artsyhonker]

I like this. The line "Three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace" struck me as slightly incongruous... the whole thing is a bit "Franciscan, Franciscan, Franciscan, Franciscan, Franc--RANDOM SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE, Doxology". Was there a particular reason for this? I'm curious rather than critical...

[turkeyplucker]

It's the Benedicite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedicite), the 32nd and last verse being, in the BCP version, "O Ananias, Azarias and Misael, bless ye the Lord : praise him, and magnify him for ever." The whole thing is from the Greek (I think) version of Daniel 3, but isn't in the Hebrew, so it's relegated to the apocrypha in protestant bibles.

[artsyhonker]

Of course.

*shuffles awkwardly*

*doesn't do BCP Mattins much these days*