[ganeemead]

Video includes verses 1, 3, 4

[Big Red Badger]

‘Cold Mountain’ has played a Hundred times
Here at the Ranch mostly for the Music but the rest is Iceing!

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

So much wonderful hymn singing in a variety of ways around the world. Heard of the Welsh Gymanfa Ganu? I attended one decades back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgC16vdkBA

Narrated in Welsh. Circa 48 minutes.

Thanks for posting the 47b, Idumea, from "The Sacred Harp"

[imardmd1]

Actually kind of boring arrangemebts -- too nuchoctave-only (and loud)singing.

After years of well-composed SATB melodies and four-part "barbershop" male arranging/directing/performing singing, what hear leaves me cold, although the words are stirring to the soul.

To understand the best of arrangement of ages-old Christian voice music, one should take a few weeks to go through Johann Sebastian Bach's Riemanschneider arrangements of middle-age accumulated Christian melodies put to use for choral, hymnal, and organ arrangements that greatly move one closer to the heart of the God of Music, speech, language, poetry, and Life! (click here and here).