The word "hymn" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a religious song of praise. For example, "At the end of the service, the congregation sang a beautiful hymn."
Inside, it's a hymn to the open-plan bürolandschaft, the "office landscape" ideal dreamed up in 1950s Germany as a break from the hierarchical world of executives hidden behind closed doors.
The importance of the real thing crops up in Evelyn Waugh's hymn to Anglo-Catholicism, Brideshead Revisited.
The resulting numbers range from the tense – Everyone Is Very, Very Nervous, as the killings begin – to the lushly melodious London Road in Bloom, in which the residents hymn the hanging baskets which, raised from and lowered to the floor, were one of the most powerful images in Norris's production.
And yes, you guessed it, this kind of thing ain't cheap – with one-on-one sessions starting at £80 and including luxury shower facilities as well as access to trainers who Popper insists will "all be singing from my hymn sheet" – ie his system, "Total Triathlon Training".
Rev Dutton's Easter Sunday hymn service starts at 8.30pm in Bradford Brewery, off Westgate & Rawson Road, BD1.
"I was interested to hear that at Leeds castle people were telling us that Peter Robinson and Ian Paisley were singing from the same hymn sheet but they were having difficulties with some of the backwoodsmen who accompanied them to Leeds Castle.
At the dawn of patriotic hymn-singing, medieval historians saw it as proof maybe left by Merlin of Britain's marvellous origins.
For instance, music for children composed during the two wars by Stravinsky and Walton, and a hymn-based work for string quartet produced in order to encourage Czech nationalism by the great and still underrated Czech composer, Josef Suk.Do you think modern audiences can relate to the sense of wartime losses in these works?Wartime losses are perhaps not so different from other losses.
Indeed, even America's supposedly feckless young proclaim their faith: witness their proud hymn-singing after last April's high-school slaughter in Littleton, Colorado.So no wonder America's politicians are also avowedly religious.
At one point, having insisted that the matching of tune to words is the defining gift of Victorian hymn-tune composers, he adds, endearingly, "I suppose it is an acquired taste .Yet it is a taste that many have, sometimes unwittingly, acquired.
And the hymn-writers, whether you agree with them or not, were being commendably non-squishy in refusing to be censored.The whole story is yet another reminder of one of the bizarre (to outsiders) features of the American religious landscape.
