{"id":634,"date":"2009-03-04T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:48:39","slug":"bellringers-hymns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2009\/03\/04\/bellringers-hymns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellringers&#8217; hymns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent visit to Canterbury Cathedral one of these was a late substitution at evensong, in honour of a presentation to leaders of the bell-ringing team.  All English hymnbooks seem to have at least one hymn for bellringers, and a collection of a dozen or so can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringing.info\/hymns.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ringing.info\/hymns.html', 'here');\">here<\/a> (though intrusive line-breaks don&#8217;t make this page easy to read except on a wide screen).<\/p>\n<p>At Canterbury we sang the NEH&#8217;s <i>Let bells peal forth the universal fame<\/i>, which was written for Durham Cathedral (and with a Durham-specific verse which can be omitted).  Fortunately we did <i>not<\/i> follow the page&#8217;s suggestion to sing it instead of the Magnificat, on the grounds that the tune is the same as that of a well-known paraphrase of the Magnificat!  I&#8217;ve never done bellringing, but I did miss the sentiments of another, older hymn, which acknowledge the complexities of the art: <i>Our lives, like bells, while changing, An ordered course pursue &#8230;<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent visit to Canterbury Cathedral one of these was a late substitution at evensong, in honour of a presentation to leaders of the bell-ringing team. All English hymnbooks seem to have at least one hymn for bellringers, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2009\/03\/04\/bellringers-hymns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[581,1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}