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OUR MUSIC AT DAVIES

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Favorite songs
Choir samples
Internet radio
About our hymnal
Additional music links

The links to the right tell you about our director, musicians, choir, monthly open mic coffee house, and more. This page is about the actual music we use, particularly the hymns. We like to have a variety of genre, including jazz, classical, choral, folk, popular, country, mixed, and international. Here are some links to web sites and actual music clips of our songs for you to hear.:

SPIRIT OF LIFE is sung at most services. Children also interpret the song in sign language most Sundays. The lyrics include "Spirit of life come unto me. Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion. Blow in the wind; rise in the sea. Move in the hand giving life the shape of justice." Here is a link for an mp3 of the congregation singing it.

LET IT BE A DANCE is one of our favorite hymns. Ric Masten is the composer and you can read the lyrics on a site with a sermon about him, which includes "Learn to follow, learn to lead, Feel the rhythm, fill the need. To reap the harvest, plant the seed. And let it be a dance." Here is a link to an mp3 to listen to it on another site.

See a video of Sharon Crestwell and Joyce Dowling singing CHALICE SONG by Linda Olson Peebles on YouTube here - in harmony & sign language.

STANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE by Jason Shelton is the new "theme song" for Unitarian Universalism which we'll probably be singing often now. An outstanding recording of this song is linked on the publisher's site, Yelton Rhodes Music.

Samples of choir singing in QuickTime format (if you don't have a QuickTime plugin or player, you can download one from this page): sample 1 • sample 2 • sample 3

Listen to UUPlink internet radio for more examples of UU music.

ABOUT OUR HYMNAL (Links to other sites open in a new page - click out of the page when you're done & this one will still be here.)

"Singing the Living Tradition"

• God Metaphors and Metonymies by Jan Garrett
• Hymnal Service from Littleton
• Changing the Words: An Historical Introduction to Unitarian Universalist Hymnody
• Hymn Singability
• Holly Near free download ("Singing For Our Lives")
• Eco-Spiritual Songs
• Rounds & Chants (some from SLT) audio clips
• Purchase your own copy (page also has reviews)
• Large print edition is spiral bound - recommend for hands-free use
• Between the Lines - Historical and literary facts on the hymns, tunes and readings

"Singing the Journey" - new hymnal supplement

• UUWorld article
• Recordings of accompaniment
• Purchase your own copy (page also has reviews)
• Commentary from Philocrites
• More on 'Singing the Journey.' by Jason Shelton

Other Music for Sale from the UUA Bookstore - books & recordings

Music for Sale from UniUniques - from independent artists some of whom have their own sites and/or also sell their recordings on Amazon.com & other places, such as CDBaby & eBay, with music clips available, but clips are not available on this site.

Join the UU Musicians Network for more information about UU music. (Free information available on their site, too.)

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