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Hymns Instrumental, released in 1989, is the final studio album from contemporary Christian music group 2nd Chapter of Acts. It features no vocals, but is an instrumental collection of all but three of the tracks from the previous two Hymns releases.
Writing for Allmusic, critic Jason Ankeny wrote that the album is "simply too brief to stand as a definitive collection of the guitarist's spiritual recordings; his instrumental work is impeccable of course, but performances of favorites like "Amazing Grace," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" and "The Old Rugged Cross" pass by too quickly to properly whet the listener's appetite."
The hymns could by sung unaccompanied, but organs and choir supported congregational singing where such resources were available. [19] Organ music would play a large role in Lutheran music later on. Luther said that music ought to be “accorded the greatest honour and a place next to theology” due to its great importance. [ 20 ]
All hymns that were not direct quotations from the Bible fell into this category. Such hymns were banned, along with any form of instrumental musical accompaniment, and organs were ripped out of churches. Instead of hymns, Biblical psalms were chanted, most often without accompaniment. This was known as exclusive psalmody.
If one counted all syllables, not just stressed syllables, such hymns follow what is called an 86.86 pattern, with lines of eight syllables alternating with lines of six syllables. This form is also known as common metre. By contrast most hymns in an 87.87 pattern are trochaic, with strong-weak syllable pairs: Love divine, all loves excelling,
Hymns for the Celebration of Life, The Unitarian Universalist Association (1964) Liberal Religious Youth Ohio Valley Federation Songs for Triangle Club of All Souls Unitarian Church, Assembled by Mike Selmmanoff (1964–65), Reprinted by E.O. Davisson (1966) [644] Hymns for Living, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (1985)
[24] [25] From about 1800 parish churches started to use different hymn collections in informal service like the Lock Hospital Collection [26] (1769) by Martin Madan, the Olney hymns [27] (1779) by John Newton and William Cowper and A Collection of Hymns for the Use of The People Called Methodists(Wesley 1779) (1779) by John Wesley and Charles ...
Amazing Grace: Music Inspired By the Motion Picture is a soundtrack for the movie Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd.The album features new versions of old hymns recorded by some of Christian music's more prominent artists as well as one of the most popular country artists around today.