Favorite spiritual song

[LA Ute]

not found in the the LDS Hymnal? When you seek solace, comfort or inspiration in music and it is not found in the Hymnal, where do you turn?

John Rutter is probably the leading composer/arranger of sacred music in the English-speaking world right now. He's an Englishman and does some very nice stuff, mainly choral music. A lot of what he does is quite Catholic, lyrically, but truly beautiful. "Requiem" is a great album and so is "Magnificat." His Christmas albums are terrific. We have then all. Much less muddy than Tab Choir, although under Wilberg they are doing better at that.

[happyone]

Amazing Grace done on bagpipes. My cousin played it at both my uncle and grandmothers funerals. In my Grandmothers case , there was snow on the ground and he walked over a hill on the last verse. You could see his foot prints in the snow as the music faded away. It very moving.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

About 2 years ago we had a missionary in our ward who played football for Utah, Afa Garrigan. He always carried around his ukulele and would sing at every dinner or whatever. When I first heard about him I thought it was a little strange, then I got to know him better and he was good.

I ended up taking him to the recording studio my nephew works at and he recorded like 4 songs and he gave CDs out to people. They are very spiritual songs, one about his father dying almost brings me to tears every time I listen to it still, and my family still listens to it at least a couple times a month.

I think he is now selling CDs on myspace, if you want to find him.

[Brian]

Amazing Grace done on bagpipes.

good call.
Amazing Grace is fantastic no matter how you do it, but the pipes are something special.

[Solon]

Another is the Violent Femmes song, "Jesus Walking on Water."

I love this song.

I also like Cake's "Jesus Wrote A Blank Check"

[Jarid in Cedar]

Amazing Grace done on bagpipes. My cousin played it at both my uncle and grandmothers funerals. In my Grandmothers case , there was snow on the ground and he walked over a hill on the last verse. You could see his foot prints in the snow as the music faded away. It very moving.

Amazing Grace on bagpipes was played at my grandmother's Funeral as well. Perfect ending for the services.

[happyone]

good call.
Amazing Grace is fantastic no matter how you do it, but the pipes are something special.

I love it. It is also easy to whistle. Now all of my Dad's siblings want my cousin to play Amazing Grace at their funerals. We do have a lot of Scottish blood running through our veins

[Eddie]

A couple of decades ago there was a significant movement to replace it with American the Beautiful. George Will (paragon of conservatism that he is) wrote a column advocating the change.

I'm not one who typically points out typos or grammatical mistakes - but this one was just a little too funny to pass up.

What happened, were you looking at Fiyero's avatar when you posted?

I think the rest of the world would have a heyday talking about ugly arrogant americans if we changed our anthem to American the Beautiful.

[wuapinmon]

I forgot, my grandfather's funeral had an honor guard since he was retired Army. They played "Taps" on a trumpet and then had a full 21-gun salute. Even the guys shooting (VFW volunteers) got a little misty during the playing of "Taps."

Day is done, all is well, God is nigh.

[happyone]

I forgot, my grandfather's funeral had an honor guard since he was retired Army. They played "Taps" on a trumpet and then had a full 21-gun salute. Even the guys shooting (VFW volunteers) got a little misty during the playing of "Taps."

Day is done, all is well, God is nigh.

Good call

When I was in the Army, I did several funerals. I did get kind of choked up when it was played on a live trumpet.

[BoylenOver]

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There are a lot of criticisms you can make about the genre of contemporary Christian music (or any genre of Christian music other than "modernized" compositions of hymns, for that matter), but there's some powerful stuff mixed in there.

[ERCougar]

I didn't say that. I just wouldn't count them as among the greatest spiritual music. Sorry. (Most even nominally musically literate people agree with me.)

I *heart* SU. He who has never touched an instrument, he who has gained his complete classical music education through wikipedia (by the way, did you know Bach didn't play the piano?--still an SU favorite of mine), is completely comfortable educating the rest of us apparent musical illiterates on what constitutes musical greatness.

Bach, Mendelssohn, Handel, Sibelius--they're all in our hymnbook. Dvorak's in the French hymnal. Go google them and let me know what you find. I'm terribly interested in the tidbits you'll pick up.

I had a Lutheran piano teacher way back when who had me get her a copy of our hymnal. She thought it was the finest collection out there. She must be musically illiterate, too.

[BlueHair]

This is a song I stumbled onto on a Pandora station (barbershop, of all things) and this guy is/was a member of the Four Voices group. If you can ignore the faces of the choir and listen to his voice and the arrangement, maybe you'll get the chills like I always do hearing this:

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My favorite, however, is Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Along with just about everyone else. But sometimes popular picks are just that for a reason. One of my lifetime musical highlights was singing the Wilberg arrangement with the combined choirs at BYU...so incredibly powerful.

I believe UD might have been in on that as well, if he wasn't skipping it to lay down vocal tracks for our album.

Have you ever noticed how funny people look when they sing?

[jay santos]

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U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name live Elevation tour in Boston.

U2 haters, give it a chance.

In the intro, Bono is paraphrasing Psalms 116 saying:

"What can I give back to God
For the blessings he poured out
What can I give back to God
For the blessings he poured out on me

I lift high the cup of salvation
That is a toast to our Father
Following through on the promise I made to him,
From the heart"

Like SU, I find spirituality in all great music and art and for that matter in any great human achievement. If you can overlook Bono's self-importance, I view this along the same lines. Bono is dedicating his art to God.

Also as you can hear at the beginning, they've just finished the song "40" which is also a spiritual song taken from Psalms 40.

[pellegrino]

"And Can it Be" is a great Methodist hymn that has wonderful lyrics. The video below is an adaptation of the hymn that has also been called "Amazing Love." It's something I listen to quite often when I'm feeling down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHJmTyVk5o