I have attended sevices at a number of different denominations, but I never could get into any “contemporary” style of service. I’m a traditionalist at heart, no matter what the tradition is.
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As the dean said, “We’re open next week too1”
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Our PP said exactly the same thing to all of the C&Es who turned up.
No, it’s not a choral music term. It’s an Australian idiom meaning “to give something a go” or “to have a try”.
We hadn’t rehearsed the hymn at all. We just sang it on the spur of the moment.
I hadn’t realised that “to give something a burl” was Australian slang until you asked.
I’m surprised that “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” is mentioned more often than “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today,” they being somewhat similar. A midweek service I’m connected with will sing “Christ Arose” (Lo, in the grave he lay). That’s more in the gospel-song line than “churchy” “Now the Green Blade Rises” is unfamiliar to me, altho it’s in our newest hymnal.
Funny! In piping, it’s a low g, followed by a low a, back to low g (done by swiping the right pinkie quickly on and off the lowest hole). Usually written as 3 1/32 notes.
And my guess was right: opening hymn was “Jesus Christ is Risen Today.”
Offertory hymn was “Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem”.
Hymn after communion was “All Heaven Declares”
Recessional was “The Day of Resurrection!”
As Malacandra mentioned, it’s sung to the French tune, Noël nouvelet, which can also be a Christmas carol, as the name suggests. It’s in the Anglican Book of Common Praise.
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
Hail Thee Festival Day (blest hymn that shall go on forever)
Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (uncle Arthur’s tune)
And by far my favorite, Now the Green Blade Riseth.
I was disappointed - they didn’t do Christ is Risen! Alleluia! because our musical ensemble couldn’t perform in that key, or something. The music director promised we would do it next Sunday, since, as Baker mentions, it’s a season and not just a holiday.
But we did do Jesus Christ is Risen Today and I can’t recall the other one.
We don’t do contemporary worship, because everyone complains if we change it from the way we have been doing contemporary worship for the last 25 years. 
Regards,
Shodan
Up from the Grave He Arose
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
He Lives
Lord of the Dance
My wife and I discussed what hymns we’d sing at church on the way there. We got all of them but the last one. Methodists are nothing if not predictable.
At our Catholic church we had the usual ones listed above, but one that’s a little different is a their folksy version of I Know that My Redeemer Lives. This one is in 3/4 time and is much quieter than the bombastic Lutheran version or the sappy Mormon version. It’s amazing that there can be three completely different versions of a song all with the same title.
I may no longer be Lutheran, but I still like “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” Bombastic? Pistols at dawn, sir!
Actually, I like it enough that it will be one of four hymns sung at my funeral.
Methodical, in fact.
As another ex-Lutheran, when I saw the title “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” I immediately thought of that version as well (and I do like that version too).
Interesting that people have “funeral song lists”. The Catholic version is on my funeral list. Maybe someone should start a thread for “Funeral song lists”
Can we at least agree the Mormon version is sappy? Is it considered an Easter hymn?
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Interesting that people have “funeral song lists”. The Catholic version is on my funeral list. Maybe someone should start a thread for “Funeral song lists”
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Here you go:
What music should be played at your funeral/wake?
I don’t mind talking about funeral music, I quite enjoy it in fact, but I don’t want to hijack this thread anymore, so I’ve started a new one. Thanks to Northern Piper for the list of threads.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17313443#post17313443
IIRC, when John and Charles Wesley were at Oxford, their fellow students called them “Methodists” because of their dependence on their rules of worship and John eventually adopted the name. It’s a little ironic because Wesley himself was never a Methodist. He was a lifelong Anglican.
I missed this thread, but to contribute: I am in the choir at our (Episcopal) church. We sang:
Maundy Thursday: Ave Verum Corpus
Good Friday: Were You There?
Easter Sunday: Christ the Lord is Risen Today; Hail Thee Festival Day Those were congregational hymns; I honestly can’t remember the name of the anthem the choir sang. But we were backed up with some hired trumpeters and it sounded pretty amazing if I say so myself.
Mozart? Byrd? Elgar? Or someone else?
I’d be shocked if it wasn’t Mozart.