We would most likely index the tune with AURELIA despite how it is named in the hymnal (assuming the verse comes before the chorus). We've indexed “My Chains Are Gone” as a separate tune so people can find the hymn, since it is a chorus tacked on to “Amazing Grace;" and it is a contemporary song that has been in the CCLI Top 30 songs for 8 out of 9 of the last years. We've made an exception for this one, since tacked on choruses typically do not merit a separate record.
People would be able to find “Facing a task unfinished” easily by title or first line and the tune of the verse is familiar.
Exploring hymns and hymnals offers a rich spiritual experience, connecting us to tradition, faith, and a sense of community. Each melody and lyric carries profound meaning and timeless beauty.
This song was originally published in Stamps-Baxter's 1941 book Super Specials No. 3. Fred Woodruff is songwriter. At this time Stamps-Baxter was publishing annual “special books” in addition to their 2 annual “new books”. These books geared towards quartets and more adventurous singing conventions. You can currently find a scan of Super Specials No. 3 on the Internet Archive.
Personally, I think the date in the ID should reflect the date of the edition indexed. In particular the notion that the 1854 edition of the Southern Harmony is the 1835 edition has been an ongoing irritant to me since I first noticed that what was being passed off as 1835 <i>wasn't</i>.
This was a DNAH hymnal. A DNAH indexer evidently indexed a version with the 1820 date. The version that was scanned for us and that we worked from was a stereotyped, enlarged, and improved edition dated 1826; so we improved on the DNAH version. We usually do not worry about the dates in hymnal ids that came to us through the DNAH migration.
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We would most likely index the tune with AURELIA despite how it is named in the hymnal (assuming the verse comes before the chorus). We've indexed “My Chains Are Gone” as a separate tune so people can find the hymn, since it is a chorus tacked on to “Amazing Grace;" and it is a contemporary song that has been in the CCLI Top 30 songs for 8 out of 9 of the last years. We've made an exception for this one, since tacked on choruses typically do not merit a separate record.
People would be able to find “Facing a task unfinished” easily by title or first line and the tune of the verse is familiar.
Exploring hymns and hymnals offers a rich spiritual experience, connecting us to tradition, faith, and a sense of community. Each melody and lyric carries profound meaning and timeless beauty.
This song was originally published in Stamps-Baxter's 1941 book Super Specials No. 3. Fred Woodruff is songwriter. At this time Stamps-Baxter was publishing annual “special books” in addition to their 2 annual “new books”. These books geared towards quartets and more adventurous singing conventions. You can currently find a scan of Super Specials No. 3 on the Internet Archive.
Personally, I think the date in the ID should reflect the date of the edition indexed. In particular the notion that the 1854 edition of the Southern Harmony is the 1835 edition has been an ongoing irritant to me since I first noticed that what was being passed off as 1835 <i>wasn't</i>.
This was a DNAH hymnal. A DNAH indexer evidently indexed a version with the 1820 date. The version that was scanned for us and that we worked from was a stereotyped, enlarged, and improved edition dated 1826; so we improved on the DNAH version. We usually do not worry about the dates in hymnal ids that came to us through the DNAH migration.