Sunday, June 03, 2007 AD Some Enchanted Evening Angie and her husband hosted a pizza and Psalms evening last night, with Paul Buckley instructing us in the basics of chanting. I'm always up for learning new musical stuff, and Paul was also careful to explain that the point of chanting is to better respect the text -- to sing God's holy and inspired Scriptures in the quite-good-enough format they've been given to us rather than always having to "improve" on them with rhyme and meter. He was also very careful to say that there's nothing wrong or sinful about doing the rhyme and meter thing. The gist was that chanting is a good tool that we might do well to add to our arsenal (yes, I just mixed my metaphors...so sue me), but that there's no need to throw out hymns or metrical Psalms in order to add it. Since I'm always delighted to expand my musical horizons, I found the evening quite enjoyable. And as an extra added bonus, there was lots of wonderful conversation about music and liturgy, and I exhausted myself by staying far past my bedtime. Thanks, Angie, for hosting the occasion! Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 6/03/2007 07:43:00 AM
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