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Bach and Amy Grant song???

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Melissa White

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Dec 6, 2003, 7:04:04 PM12/6/03
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I read online that the Amy Grant song "Sing Your Praise to the Lord" was
taken from Bach. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what is the name
of it and can I find the sheet music online?

Melissa


Russell Miller

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Dec 6, 2003, 8:20:38 PM12/6/03
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Melissa White wrote:

It's taken from Bach's "Jesu would be the joy of man's desiring, but I have
21 kids, you do the math."

--Russell

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David McKay

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Dec 7, 2003, 6:06:43 AM12/7/03
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I was in a choir that sang this song 20 years ago, Melissa, and I think it
comes from the Bach Prelude in C minor, Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, but I
may have remembered it wrongly.

David McKay


Gerald C

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Dec 7, 2003, 4:16:45 PM12/7/03
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"Melissa White" <mkw...@charter.net> wrote in message news:<vt4rtu...@corp.supernews.com>...

> I read online that the Amy Grant song "Sing Your Praise to the Lord" was
> taken from Bach. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what is the name
> of it and can I find the sheet music online?

The composer of "Sing Your Praise to the Lord", Rich Mullins, was
quoted:

"I had been singing that song for years. None of my peers were into
Christian music, and a good many of us didn't even know who she [Amy
Grant] was when she recorded it. I wrote it because I was practicing
Bach's C Minor Fugue, and when I got to where I could play it
decently, I just didn't want to quit, so I wrote the introduction,
which led to the song. I hope Bach would like it. His music is way
more important that the Christian music you hear now. I'm not saying
today's Christian music has no value, I'm just afraid that we miss the
real value of it, and use it for something it's no good at. It's value
lies in its ability to point beyond itself to Christ." --CCM Magazine
April 1987

regards, Gerald

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