Why Traditional Hymns are Superior to Modern Ones
. . .I’m sometimes accused, when I write about bad hymns, of wanting to impose a single style upon everyone. That’s strange. It’s like saying that all classical music sounds the same; Bach, Brahms, Dvorak, Debussy, all the same. I point out that the hymns in a good hymnal were composed over a period of 1,600 years. I say that their melodies come in a staggering variety: medieval chant (The Golden Sequence), German chorale (Christ Lag in Todesbanden), American revival songs (“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”), English anthems (Silver Street), French carols (Quem Pastores), & so on. A folk melody from Ireland is not the same as one from Wales, let alone Poland. . .
by Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D.,
of Crisis Magazine
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