Category Archives: Hymn tunes

Three for Emily Brink: What Wondrous Joy

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update 3/12/22: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. The grande dame of congregational song, Emily Brink, recently retired. I was asked to provide some music for a book celebrating her career: “One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: A … Continue reading →

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The World Lay Languishing in Pain

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Greg Scheer

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I Eat Rejection Like Pizza

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Anybody for a slice of humble pie? A few years ago FaithAlive asked composers to submit tunes for four texts slated for their forthcoming hymnal. The hymnal is no longer forthcoming. Lift Up Your Hearts was published this year, and as … Continue reading →

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Blest Is the Man Whose Bowels Move

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Greg Scheer

What this world needs is more hymns about digestive regularity, don’t you agree? Well, wait no longer, world, because Isaac Watts and Greg have you covered. Two decades ago, a friend of mine showed me the Isaac Watts’ text “Blest Is … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Greg Scheer

Update: For sheet music or to adopt this orphan tune, head over to gregscheer.com. 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 … Continue reading →

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INDY (3 tunes for Isaac Watts, part 2)

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Greg Scheer

Update: For sheet music or to adopt this tune, head over to gregscheer.com. 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 … Continue reading →

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GILLIGAN (3 tunes for Isaac Watts, part 1)

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Greg Scheer

Update: For sheet music or to adopt this orphan tune, head over to gregscheer.com. 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. … 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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Filled with the Spirit’s Power

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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