OLD HYMNALS
(Posted 2009-06-29 11:17:50 by ArchPaladin)

I have this old church hymnal from 1937 that I kept when my parents were
getting rid of the last of theirs.

I was flipping through it yesterday as the topic of church hymns had come
up.  In particular, I was comparing some of the hymns that I found there
with some of the ones in the current hymnal that our church uses.

There have been a lot of changes.  Many of the songs that are present in
the newer hymnal have slightly altered lyrics, or entirely missing verses. 
The older hymnal obviously has a very different selection of songs too -
including some even older chants and male quartets that were probably
antiquated by 1937 standards.  The book even draws its F clef differently.

I find this to be an interesting piece of nostalgia.  There were a lot of
songs that I grew up learning that aren't sung anymore, and in another 10
or so years, the ones that are starting to become old or obscure now will
probably not be sung either.  Those will get replaced with something else. 
And I can pull out an old hymnal and see the same exact process happened in
1937.

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