Hymn Descants Blog: hymns

Welcome to the Hymn Descants Blog

A descant is a counter melody written above the original melody. Its main purpose is to enhance the original melody without overpowering it. It heightens the effectiveness of the worship experience by adding a sense of climax and joy to a hymn.

Why hymn descants? I felt a need to expand my flute playing in church to more that just playing the various lines in the hymnal. Descants allow me to do this and bring more glory to God through my music. I found a few descant resources scattered here and there about the internet, but no one comprehensive site, so www.hymndescants.com was born.

This blog provides a forum for all to discuss descants as used in hymns. Posts can cover finding descants, writing, playing and/or singing descants.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Handbook for Creative Church Musicians

A highly recommended book. It is a practical guide to composition and arranging by Harold Owen. The very first chapter covers descants - lots of examples for both instrumental and choral descants, including a section on problems and solutions. Available at SheetMusicPlus.

Rejoice Music - Descants!

Descants at Rejoice Music A good selection of lightly used church choir music from this eBay store.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Hymn Descants - Online Shopping

Completed online shopping page. Check it out at www.hymndescants.com/shopping.html.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Hymn Descants Store Now Open!

I just opened a store at lulu.com. I have posted four flute descants as downloadable sheet music for only $1.25 each. A short audio sample is available. Let me know if there are other tunes you are interested in. Also, check out my homepage also for free descants available.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Webpage

The web page www.hymndescants.com is still a work in progress. If you have any suggestions or interesting links I can add please let me know, thanks.

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