#198 - That Easter Morn | Suggested: 92-108 | Actual: 75
The ward choir sang two other songs that I didn't measure the tempo of because, contrary to LDS Church recommendations, they were not hymns as written in the hymnbook. Now a few alternate arrangements are certainly allowed, but "Choirs should use the hymnbook as their basic resource, selecting from the entire book" and our choir does not do that (Hymns page 381).
Interesting, are you talking about hymn texts set to different melodies or using non-hymns altogether? I've found many scriptural texts set to music that aren't hymns but are quite appropriate for ward choir.
ReplyDeleteIn this case it was one hymn text set to a different arrangement and one non-hymn (either a Primary song or some other popular Mormon song). I can't remember. I would not argue that they are inappropriate for the choir, but that the core of a choir's repertoire should be hymns from the hymnbook.
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