Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revised Hymnal's nearly 600 hymns (an increase of about 40) 201 are new. Some hymns have been dropped. Most of these, like Tarry With Me, O My Saviour, were on the egocentric side. The current trend is toward theocentric hymns. Two surprising deletions: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, Tennyson's Crossing...
Added starters: ten Christmas carols, some of the great German chorals whose sweep and power make them ideal for congregational singing. Many an old hymn has changed its tune. Hymns that were too high-pitched for most singers have been set in a lower key. Except in cases where the hymn is one of praise or prayer, Amen has been dropped from endings...
...crashing notes of Giovinezza did not end that evening's terse news. For the first time in more than two decades, the Fascist hymn was replaced by Italy's Marcia Reale...
...contemporaries have made. The money (a fortune estimated at $140,000,000) was amassed by the amateur Lancashire horse doctor, Joseph Beecham, who invented Beecham's Pills. Joseph Beecham was one of the first British businessmen to grasp the power of modern advertising. He even circulated a hymn book edited with an eye to furthering his product. Most famous edited hymn...
America has songs for all kinds: let Mr. Pegler and his barbershop quartet amuse themselves with the truly American songs of George M. Cohan; let our soldiers march to the strains of Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic; but let us reserve for our national anthem a composition which expresses the best we have in us-the Star-Spangled Banner...