Q.1
Which of these popular recent devotional songs is NOT by Graham Kendrick?
  • Shine, Jesus, shine ('Lord, the light of Your love is shining')
  • Led like a Lamb
  • Majesty, worship His majesty
  • Such love
Q.2
has often been regarded as a 'second national anthem' (or just possibly, third; after Blake's ). The words were written by a British diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, shortly before the First World War ~ a historical telltale in itself, as this Quiz is drafted in the anniversary-rich early summer ofThe tune is adapted from which more-or-less contemporary orchestral work, and fits it as evocatively as a proverbial glove?
  • Bliss: Things to Come
  • Holst: The Planets
  • Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic
  • Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance
Q.3
Mary's song, the canticle traditionally known by its Latin title , has become widely sung in a metrical paraphrase which begins 'Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!'. This originated in a 20th-century prose translation of the Bible, but the whole hymn in its metrical form is the work of which major writer?
  • Fred Kaan
  • Martin Leckebusch
  • Percy Cutts
  • Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith
Q.4
The composer John Rutter is most widely associated with which genre of Christian music?
  • Soul and Gospel
  • Worship Songs
  • Organ voluntaries
  • Christmas carols
Q.5
A very plangent setting of Turgenev's poem on the legend of the child Jesus and the Crown of Roses was written by ...
  • Rachmaninov
  • Tchaikovsky
  • Stravinsky
  • Arensky
Q.6
The composers of the coronation anthem (a setting of Ps.121) and of the hymntune (most usually sung to Wesley's ) share which surname?
  • Parry
  • Walton
  • Williams
  • Purcell
Q.7
The resonant bass singers Paul Robeson and Willard White are probably most closely identified with which style of Christian music?
  • Oratorio
  • Worship Songs
  • Spirituals
  • Gospel
Q.8
The Psalms ( the established Old Testament 'Jewish hymnbook' as Jesus knew, and frequently quoted it) have become and remained a core corpus of devotional text in Christian worship. Which of the following is NOT a recognised form of psalmody within the English-language tradition?
  • The 'Negro Spiritual'
  • Responsorial congregational psalms
  • Metrical psalms, e.g. in Scots usage
  • 'Pointed' psalms sung flexibly to an Anglican Chant
Q.9
The traditional tune for the solemn hymn is called 'The Old Hundredth': why?
  • It was written to celebrate the centenary of the start of the Church of England
  • The words with which it goes are a paraphrase of the Jubilate, a canticle which also happens to be the 100th Psalm in the psalter (out of 150)
  • There were 100 musicians involved in its first public performance
  • This version has been superseded by a 'New 100th' but which has proved less popular, so the 'Old' label is used to distinguish this
Q.10
Psalm 46 ('God is our strength and refuge') is enthusiastically sung in a modern paraphrase, set to a powerful yet perhaps slightly surprising tune from which World War 2 film?
  • The Great Escape
  • Reach for the Sky
  • The Dam Busters
  • Brief Encounter
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