object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fMqKxpq6QAEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fMqKxpq6QAEhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /Something different for this Sunday's video. The unearthly sounds of Gaelic psalm singing comes from Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and reminds us just what a strange and diverse place the British Isles are.br /br /As a bonus you get some pictures of the island's landscape including the moon over the stones of Callanish. I have visited the Outer Hebrides a couple of times and long to go back.br /br /a href="http://www.metafilter.com/68085/Gaelic-Psalm-Singing"MetaFilter/a describes what we are listening to:br /blockquotepIn Presbyterian Free Church's across Lewis you can here some of the finest examples of spiritual Free Heterophony in the world, where the psalms are sung a cappella (without musical accompaniment), and led by a precentor (literally ‘one who sings beforehand’)./ppIn Gaelic psalm singing, the precentor leads the praise by commencing the tune, which he sings along with the congregation for two lines of a four-line stanza. On the third line, the precentor sings the line solo, which is then repeated by the congregation; this occurs for each line until the end of the item of praise./ppThe result is a unique musical event, full of the traditions of Celtic religious culture, and deeply moving in its praise of God./p/blockquotepThe site also repeats the story that the Black American style of worship has it roots in Gaelic psalm singing. This is an atractive idea, but probably too fanciful./ppAnother a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si9H1D1xhNI"Youtube video/a explains the difference between Hebridean "lining out" and the Black American "call and response" style./ppSo the blues probably don't come from Stornoway./pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-1262317675438591312?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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