Category Archives: Hymn tunes

DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING (3 tunes for Isaac Watts, part 3)

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Greg Scheer

In our third installment of hymn tunes for Isaac Watts texts, we encounter a 6.6.8.D text based on Psalm 93. The text implied to me music that was somewhere between regal and rustic–something that would be at home in a … Continue reading →

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INDY (3 tunes for Isaac Watts, part 2)

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Greg Scheer

This second tune was written for a setting of Psalm 147 in long meter (L.M. or 8.8.8.8). The trick with this one is that there are multiple and/or shifting places of stress within each line of the text. Inner rhythms … Continue reading →

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GILLIGAN (3 tunes for Isaac Watts, part 1)

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Greg Scheer

A call went out recently for new hymn tunes to go with a forthcoming collection of updated Isaac Watts texts. Can I resist? No, I cannot. Over the next three days I’ll post what I came up with. The first is … Continue reading →

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Long-weary Earth

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Greg Scheer

I don’t know who Alexandra Fisher Willis is, but she’s written a beautiful Advent text, “Long-weary Earth in Darkness Groans.” From what I gather, she’s in Lester Ruth’s Theology of Songwriting at Duke Divinity, and she wrote this as one … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 18, 2010 by Greg Scheer

Just trying to catch up on recent compositions: During Pentecost, John Phiri from Sierra Leone preached at COS. The text “Filled with the Spirit’s Power” (Psalter Hymnal #417) fit well with his sermon thematically, but musically it left something to … Continue reading →

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