Hymnody Challenge!

Grace and peace, everyone!

Here's a game---part Hymnody, part Amusements?---to keep composers and text-writers in production mode. I call it Hymnody Challenge. It goes like this.

1. Post a tune OR a text---just one of the two!---that is in the public domain. Perhaps you have in mind something that is underused, commonly mismatched, sung with shopworn texts or tunes, et cetera. Posted texts may be in any language(s). If you are posting a tune, you may specify a theme or liturgical event for the text that you believe should go with it. For example, you could say something like, "I call Hymnody Challenge for the tune FINLANDIA on the theme of Christ the King." However, you do not have to specify a theme.

2. The rest of us will then have one week from the time of your post to complete the hymn, either by posting an original text for your posted tune or an original tune for your posted text. Composers of tunes must include four-part harmonization. Original texts may be in any language(s).

3. It's OK to have more than one Challenge running at the same time.

Make sense? Here goes...

I call Hymnody Challenge for a new text to the tune TRURO on the theme of Priestly Ordination,

AND

I call Hymnody Challenge for a new tune to the Christmas text "Angels From the Realms of Glory."