Hymnals

In the hymnal we have Wagner but we also have Brahms (the academic festival overture’s hymn), and one doesn’t see those chaps a whole lot in hymnals — give me more of the latter and dispense with the great bombaster. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Things such as hymnals that they'll need regularly are ending up in members 'garages, but the inconvenience is worth it, Nagel said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A rotund white-haired man in a sweater and dress slacks adjusts a music stand on the left side of the large raised platform at the front of the chapel, and leads the congregation in a melody drawn from the green hymnals scattered throughout the pew backs. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Please open your hymnals to "Rubber Biscuit," page 487 ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here, old hymnals are stacked on a table inside the shuttered Union Avenue Methodist Church. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whole shelves are bent under ranks of old missals, breviaries, and hymnals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During the course of 70 years of collecting, an indecent number of library books, hymnals and other items of dubious provenance found their way onto his shelves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many parishes starting using Parce Domine in recent years, partly because it is a remnant of chant that oddly survived in antiphon form within modern missalettes and hymnals in the Catholic world of today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nevertheless, "Epiphany" appears in none of the hymnals I have, mainly because people don't know how to sing anymore. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

So if you want to get it in the hymnal, you'd have to rearrange it — or you could just use James Harding's comparatively bland "Morning Star," which is what most hymnals do. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

The scores and hymnals moved again, her heels disturbed random covers. ❋ W.F. Lantry (2011)

I hope that means that from here on out this will be included in the hymnals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

Most any celebrant can appreciate the point of having people watch the procession and sing music that requires no hymnals rather than burying their heads in a missalette. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here's what I mean: in spite of being well within reasonable range for a decent SATB choir, "Epiphany" is simultaneously too high and too low to get into hymnals. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

And yet, in the overwhelming number of parishes, the entrance music will be something else selected locally and by the music director or liturgy team, from one of the many published hymnals that not only fail to publish the chant for Pentecost but also exclude (or mutilate) basic people's hymns for Pentecost such as Veni Creator. ❋ Unknown (2009)