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Singing God'S Praises 1
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Which of these popular recent devotional songs is NOT by Graham Kendrick?
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Shine, Jesus, shine ('Lord, the light of Your love is shining')
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Led like a Lamb
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Majesty, worship His majesty
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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?
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Bliss: Things to Come
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Holst: The Planets
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Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic
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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?
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Fred Kaan
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Martin Leckebusch
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Percy Cutts
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Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith
Q.4
The composer John Rutter is most widely associated with which genre of Christian music?
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Soul and Gospel
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Worship Songs
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Organ voluntaries
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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 ...
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Rachmaninov
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Tchaikovsky
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Stravinsky
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Arensky
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The composers of the coronation anthem (a setting of Ps.121) and of the hymntune (most usually sung to Wesley's ) share which surname?
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Parry
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Walton
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Williams
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Purcell
Q.7
The resonant bass singers Paul Robeson and Willard White are probably most closely identified with which style of Christian music?
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Oratorio
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Worship Songs
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Spirituals
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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?
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The 'Negro Spiritual'
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Responsorial congregational psalms
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Metrical psalms, e.g. in Scots usage
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'Pointed' psalms sung flexibly to an Anglican Chant
Q.9
The traditional tune for the solemn hymn is called 'The Old Hundredth': why?
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It was written to celebrate the centenary of the start of the Church of England
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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)
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There were 100 musicians involved in its first public performance
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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?
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The Great Escape
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Reach for the Sky
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The Dam Busters
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Brief Encounter
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