HSGBI Archive – Bulletins
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Contents
German Chorales and American Songs and Solos:
Contrasting Chapters in Welsh Congregational Hymn-singing by E. Wyn James
Further Reading
Broken Hopes, New Dreams by Jan Berry
Introduction
Reflecting on healing
Healing as part of human experience
Hymns embodied
Conclusion: bringing it all together
Bibliography
Destroying a Special Musical Genre by Marc Rochester
Two Little Eyes by Brian West
Reviews
Sing!, Keith and Kristyn Getty
British Methodist Hymnody – Theology, Heritage and Experience, Martin V. Clarke
Letters
by Christopher Idle
by Brian West
Contributors
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Reflections on the Conference of The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland in Carmarthen 2017 by Colin Ferguson
Hymns and the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the Reformation in 1517
Martin Leckebusch
Alan Gaunt
Janet Wooton
‘Duty and Delight’: Reflections on Aspects of the Ministry of Erik Routley, 1917-82
Anniversaries
Reviews
Hymns of Hope and Healing
Singing the Sacred Volume 1
Singing the Sacred Volume 2
Letters
Contributors
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Hymn Society Conference 2014, Cirencester by Elizabeth Cosnett
Conference Hymn Festival Commentary, Charlton Kings, July 2014 by Marjorie Dobson
Honorary Vice President
On choosing the right tune to parody by John Hartley
The challenge of the worship song: Keith Getty and Stuart Townend by John Crothers
Finding the right voice: glimpses of poetic imagery in the hymn tune by Joan Thackray
The bridge between Christmas and Easter: Candlemas and its hymns by Kay Griffiths
Anniversaries
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Anniversary Conference John Hartley
Waltham Abbey Festival of Hymns Gillian Warson
1. Awake my soul and with the sun
2. Jesus in the new dawn
3. O Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
4. God the weaver
5. The Kingdom of God is justice and joy
6. Now as a lamp to guide my footsteps
7. Wisdom far beyond our knowledge
8. Everything changes but God changes not
9. All saints? How can it be?
10. Who would true valour see
11. When Miriam’s daughters rise and sing
12. For All the saints who from their labours rest
The 1611 Bible and the English Hymn J R Watson
1. Justifying hymn writing
2. Paraphrasing
3. Intensifying
4. Preaching
The Psalms as a Reflection of Identity: Perspectives from South Africa and Scotland Elsabé Kloppers
Childhood memories
A shared identity and mysterious levels of solidarity
A New Versification of the Metrical Psalms in Afrikaans
The Scottish tradition of metrical psalms
A broader context
2012 Anniversaries of Hymn Writers and Composers
Review
Never Let The Songs End: New Hymns To Inspire and Uplift
Letter
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