Good stuff. With the first hymn I found my feet keeping time and my fingers moving from old memory. I learned the first one as a pipe tune by Hugh Wilson...(Martyrdom), often sung to the hymn " Alas and did my Savior bleed". Not a standard setting for pipes, but a good tune nonetheless.
@rustydog1236 Thanks for the feedback. Most people who offer comments about the subtitles agree with you, while at least one finds the subtitles distracting. I continue to add the words to the new videos that I post. Happy viewing!
I had missed this one in my mousing about the Tube. It's nice to see the positive comments. If we could get more people singing, this old world would be in a lot better shape than it is.
Thanks for posting this. Mark Twain mentions this hymn in "Tom Sawyer." I guess people would have been familiar with this hymn a hundred years ago, but i'd never heard of it.
Which of the three on this video is mentioned in 'Tom Sawyer'?
You are right - many Sacred Harp songs are much older that 100 years! Some, in fact, go back to pre-colonial times. Shape note singing (Sacred Harp) was common on the frontier even in Lincoln's day. And for a shape note song that dates back to the revolution, check out 'Bunker Hill' on my channel.
Dummy me didn't realize there was more than one in the video! After Tom, Huck and Joe Harper return from Tom's island, they walk into their own funeral. The townsfolk are so overjoyed that the three are not dead, they burst out into "Old Hundred."
Well, that would have been my guess, among the three! The words they sang, most likely, were 'the doxology' - 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow' etc.
I remember the boys walking into their own funeral, but not the detail about singing 'Old Hundred,' a tune which, according to my songbook, dates back to 1696.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it with and without printed words in my various videos, and some people like having the words. I've also tried putting the words in the 'information' box describing my video instead of making them part of the visual. Glad you did enjoy the music though.
Kneel before His throne of grace and confess your burdened haert to Him. Lay your burdens on the foot of the cross and seek refuge into His loving arms. Speaking may relieve thee.
Glory !
Can't get enough of this music.
Even now between sermons on a sunday I seek and find inspiration here. They are at themselves more powerfull sermons than I could ever deliver.
Good stuff. With the first hymn I found my feet keeping time and my fingers moving from old memory. I learned the first one as a pipe tune by Hugh Wilson...(Martyrdom), often sung to the hymn " Alas and did my Savior bleed". Not a standard setting for pipes, but a good tune nonetheless.
JTB1956 6 months ago
Just for the record, I LIKE haveing the words subtitled in!
rustydog1236 1 year ago
@rustydog1236 Thanks for the feedback. Most people who offer comments about the subtitles agree with you, while at least one finds the subtitles distracting. I continue to add the words to the new videos that I post. Happy viewing!
PLBrayfield 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting Sacred Throne! It is probably one of my favorites, right after 31t. This group sounds so amazing.
KE5HOB 2 years ago
I had missed this one in my mousing about the Tube. It's nice to see the positive comments. If we could get more people singing, this old world would be in a lot better shape than it is.
dono509 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Mark Twain mentions this hymn in "Tom Sawyer." I guess people would have been familiar with this hymn a hundred years ago, but i'd never heard of it.
rockdontrun 3 years ago
Which of the three on this video is mentioned in 'Tom Sawyer'?
You are right - many Sacred Harp songs are much older that 100 years! Some, in fact, go back to pre-colonial times. Shape note singing (Sacred Harp) was common on the frontier even in Lincoln's day. And for a shape note song that dates back to the revolution, check out 'Bunker Hill' on my channel.
PLBrayfield 3 years ago
Dummy me didn't realize there was more than one in the video! After Tom, Huck and Joe Harper return from Tom's island, they walk into their own funeral. The townsfolk are so overjoyed that the three are not dead, they burst out into "Old Hundred."
rockdontrun 3 years ago
Well, that would have been my guess, among the three! The words they sang, most likely, were 'the doxology' - 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow' etc.
I remember the boys walking into their own funeral, but not the detail about singing 'Old Hundred,' a tune which, according to my songbook, dates back to 1696.
PLBrayfield 3 years ago
I would like the video much better without the italic words printed over the video. It's distracting. However, I enjoyed the music.
mh605 3 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it with and without printed words in my various videos, and some people like having the words. I've also tried putting the words in the 'information' box describing my video instead of making them part of the visual. Glad you did enjoy the music though.
PLBrayfield 3 years ago
Yes, it is quite difficult to hear the words unless they are printed so that one can follow them.
BTW I love this music - it seems to re-awaken some lost memory from my puritan ancestors.
RadicalWhig 3 years ago
Just do what I do, grab your copy of The Sacred Harp off the shelf and follow along! lol
KE5HOB 2 years ago
"...we must all live in the world, but not necessarily of it - the Old Hundred* is a place of our refuge...."
sisterspure 3 years ago
Speak and let the truth be known.
Kneel before His throne of grace and confess your burdened haert to Him. Lay your burdens on the foot of the cross and seek refuge into His loving arms. Speaking may relieve thee.
Glory !
Can't get enough of this music.
Even now between sermons on a sunday I seek and find inspiration here. They are at themselves more powerfull sermons than I could ever deliver.
helmuthoorn 3 years ago
Beautiful and harmonious!...:) Karen
karenscott3 4 years ago