Lift Every Voice and Sing II Pew Edition: An African American Hymnal

I will use this hymn to enrich my worship and it is helpful in learning the origin of the hymns and how they were compiled for this hymnal. I'm trying to learn more about the music that we use in the Episcopal church.

This is great way to store your extra batteries as you see exactly how many you have.

My husband and I purchased many copies of this hymnal to give as a gift to our church. I direct a children's choir and have used many of the hymns in the hymnal for the children to sing. The congregation loved the songs so much that I thought it would be nice if they were able to sing along too. The hymns are beautiful, particularly the communion hymns such as "In Remembrance of Me" and "One Bread, One Body". I also have played many selections during services when I have filled in for the pianist, such as "Spirit Song" and "You are Near". It is a wonderful compilation of new songs and some old favorites too like "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Joshua Fit da Battle of Jericho". I love playing the hymns and I am very pleased with the purchase.The only negative I would like to impart is that I wish there was an Organists version. It is very hard to keep the book open to the page you are playing since it is a hard cover and unlike most hymnals, the book does not stay open very well. Some of the songs go onto the next page and turning the page and keeping the book on the music stand is a challenge. It would be very helpful if it came in a spiral backed copy.

I use it for at-home worship since we cannot meet physically with our parish family. This hymnal has those moving hymns we love to sing with great feeling at the top of our voices. Especially good to honor our African American brothers and sisters and to proclaim that "Black Lives Matter" in our home. AMC

The Anglican Church (at least with the Anglo-Catholic guys, of which I am one) tends to the more traditional European music, which is fine, but it sometimes comes off as too structured and cold. This is a fine collection of American music that has been approved, by the National Church, for the use with and in the liturgical environment of the church.It contains both Hymns and Service music.It makes a fine adjunct to the 1982 Hymnal as the music herein is both uplifting and traditionally American and goes over well when used. There are also some multi-part versions of music in the LEVAS that has been reduced to a single part version in the 1982 hymnal. These American classics are typically very well received by the congregants.

Item getting last Wednesday, 7/17/19. a Very complete Hymnbook about the well known Hymns, Gospel and Spiritualsfrom the African American denominations. Also very suitable to the Catholic Masses now a days.Some of the tunes I'd like to use into pipe organ improvisations, Thank You!

This is a valuable supplement to THE HYMNAL 1982. The compilers considered less traditional music that had not been included in the main hymnbook of the Episcopal Church. Noting the merit of other genres, this book was created. It includes spirituals, gospel songs, some African rhythms, and late nineteenth century choruses that offer variations to musical selections.

A member of our church choir brought a copy of this hymnal to choir practice and we sang a few of the songs in church services. I should mention that our church is racially about 90% white and 10% black. The songs from this great hymnal got more favorable response than most other songs that we had done during the year. I was familiar with many of the songs from my college (Yale) glee club experience but the good comments I got from parishioners were from people who said they'd never heard the songs before. Buy these hymnals and revive your church!