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Recommended websites for hymn midis and lyrics
http://www.hymnsite.com Once there, for best results, use their BIGsearch option
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary http://www.ccel.org/cceh/
Lassen Technologies http://www.snowcrest.net/lassen/midi.html
"We encourage AO members to get a hymnal of their own. There are so many, it would be hard to suggest one - but even from used book sources, etc - it makes so much more sense to sing while looking at the notes - and they would be wonderful for copywork." ~ Donna-Jean Breckenridge
Ambleside Online Term Calendar: Term 1:Sep-Nov Term 2:Jan- Mar Term 3:Apr-Jun
Ambleside Online schedules these terms as a group to facilitate our Artist, Composer, Plutarch,
Shakespeare, Folksongs and Hymns studies through sharing resources and experiences on the
list.
Hymns
This is only the beginning of a twelve-year rotation of suggested hymns to learn. Charlotte Mason's students learned three folksongs and three hymns each term. Hymns make wonderful copywork selections. You may also wish to ask your students to recite the words to the hymns (as they do their poetry recitations) at the end of the month in which they are learned -- an excellent mental exercise, and one which Charlotte Mason suggested herself!
2004-2005 School Year
term 1 September: Take My Life and Let It Be, 1874 We suggest you try the tunes "Messiah" and "Yarbrough"
(and perhaps try alternating between the two for a change of pace!).
October: O Thou In Whose Presence, 1791
November: When Morning Gilds the Skies, 1744 (There are many verses -- you may wish to select 5 or so)
2003-2004 School Year
term 1 September Abide With Me
October I Am Thine, O Lord (lyrics by Fanny Crosby)
term 2 January Just As I Am (1835) Midi with hymn info and words or a congregational piano midi
February Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (from a 4th century liturgy) Fernando Ortega fans will enjoy
the beautiful version of this hymn on his cd "Storm."
March Jesus Paid it All (1865) Midi with hymn info and words or a piano midi (slower)
term 3 April Man of Sorrows (1875)
We encourage you to choose a few additional Easter hymns from the list below
May How Firm a Foundation (date unknown, published 1787)
June Let Us With a Gladsome Mind (1623)
After your children learn the hymns, try having them recite the words occasionally, as Charlotte Mason suggested.
2002-2003 School Year
term 1 September:: Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (tune is from Haydn's Emperor String
October: There Is a Happy Land Quartet)
November: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
term 2 January: Trust and Obey
February: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
March: I Love To Tell the Story
term 3 April: How Great Thou Art
June: Fairest Lord Jesus
2001-2002 School year
term 1 Holy, Holy, Holy
Optional supplement for study of Bach's St. Matthew Passion Ah, Holy Jesus
Term 3 Count Your Blessings
~*~*~ Easter Hymns ~*~*~
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (w/link to German) words by Bernard of Clairveaux
Thine is the Glory (w/ link to French version) music by Handel
Thanksgiving Hymns & Songs
Fetch your Old School Hymnals!
If you use a different hymnal that lacks the hymns below, these
verses are still worth reading just for the poetry.
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"O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand (OSH #418)
O God, beneath Thy guiding hand
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea;
And when they trod the wintry strand,
With prayer and psalm they worshiped Thee.
Thou heard'st, well pleased, the song, the prayer:
Thy blessing came and still it's power
Shall onward, thro' all ages, bear
The memory of that holy hour.
Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
Came with those exiles o'er the waves;
And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
The God they trusted guards their graves.
And here my name, O God of love,
Their children's children shall adore,
Till these eternal hills remove,
And spring adorns the earth no more.
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Come, Ye Thankful People, OSH #156
Come, ye thankful people, come
Raise the song of harvest-home:
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest-home.
All the world is God's own field,
Fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.
For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take His harvest home,
From His field shall in that day
All offenses purge away;
Give His angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In His garner evermore.
Even so, Lord quickly come
To Thy final harvest-home;
Gather Thou Thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
There, forever purified,
In Thy presence to abide:
Come, with all Thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest-home!
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Several other hymns in the OSH that rise to the occasion are:
#23 For The Beauty of the Earth
#28 We Gather Together
#84 Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
#132 Now Thank We All Our God
#150 Ye Pilgrims of Zion ("Lone Pilgrim")
#222 Faith of Our Fathers
#350 I'm But a Wandering Pilgrim
#429 Count Your Blessings
and many others I've undoubtedly missed!
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FaSoLa!
Lynn PB
