Tunes for Texts

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  • STICK IT TO THE MAN

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    https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/psalm_82-there_where_the_judges.mp3

    One doesn’t usually think of metered hymn tunes and Weezer-style punk anthems simultaneously, but for those times you do, there’s STICK IT TO THE MAN. It was originally written for Henry Zylstra’s 1953 metrical setting of Psalm 82 that appeared in the Psalter Hymnal.

    This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write your own lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please let me know how you’ve used it.

  • STUFEN

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    [audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/stufen.mp3"][/audio]

    Originally written for Christopher Webber’s 1 John 1:1-7 hymn, “This We Proclaim About the Word of Life,” this tune is built on a sweeping melodic line and a momentary shift into a different key. In non-technical terms, it’s really pretty!

    This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.

  • SYCOPHANT

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    https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/sycophant.mp3

    Mary Louise Bringle’s “When Memory Fades” is a beautiful treatment of aging, losing memory and strength. It hits close to home, as my own dad died of Alzheimers. I understand why most people sing this to the well-known FINLANDIA, but I just don’t think that tune fits this poignant text well. And so I offer my own tune to accompany “When Memory Fades” (or a hymn that is still waiting to be written).

    This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.

  • The Song of Moses and the Lamb

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    [audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/moses_and_the_lamb.mp3"][/audio]

    While planning a service based on the story of Moses’s birth and adoption by Pharaoh’s daughter, I came across a once-popular hymn by William Hammond called “Awake and Sing the Song.” (The original publication has no less than 14 verses!) Naturally, I wrote a new tune for it. I knew the text called for a tune as rough as a sea chanty, as epic as a murder ballad, and as joyously raucous as a shape-note hymn. What I came up with is a pentatonic melody that is equal parts “What Wondrous Love” and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.” You can hear the piano accompaniment in the video below:

    [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/moses_and_the_lamb-fuller.mp4"][/video]

  • TWISTER

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    [audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/twister.mp3"][/audio]

    Though this tune twists and turns in surprising ways, it is still very easy to sing. It works beautifully with texts such as “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” by W. Chatterton Dix and “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” by Charles Wesley. But it would work best with a new text written by you.

    This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.

  • Why Should the Children of a King

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    https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/why_should_the_children.mp3

    This hymn by Isaac Watts about the work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness to salvation is a fitting text for the Pentecost season.

    This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.

  • Will Rise in Spring

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    [audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/moody-will_rise_in_spring.mp3"][/audio]

    Another collaboration with Tammy Moody. Like many of her songs, this one features vivid images of nature. In this, she takes us through the seasons, ultimately connecting spring’s budding new life to our hope of resurrection in Christ.

    This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.

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