Blended Music Before
“Blending” Was Cool-Part 1
About 100 years before blended music for
worship became popular in public worship as part of the worship the worship
renewal movement, Elisha A. Hoffman wrote the words to “What a Wonderful
Savior”. This song may be defined as a
gospel hymn. There are several
definitions given for the gospel hymn by various authors. These definitions run from a “mixture song”
which includes praise to God mixed with
clear fundamentalist doctrine to “simple songs with an elaborate
chorus”. Some of the definitions that I
have found have been positive but others are very negative considerations of
this musical genre especially because they stress adherence to the fundamental
doctrines of the Bible.
Notably, the early gospel hymns were
developed first by George Root (1820-1895), William Howard Doane (1832-1915),
Robert Lowery (1826-1899), Philip Bliss (1838-1876), et al. There have been a host of writers who have
produced these mixture songs in the 20th century. Current writers are particularly negative
about gospel songs that exhibit clear fundamentalist doctrine and the fact that
these songs are quite simple harmonically[GW1] .
Thought for the Day
1.
Although
a host of millennials who now lead worship believe that gospel songs are not
relevant in this century, I have never seen the results of any research study
that supports that notion.[GW2]
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