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In our regular episodes we're progressing through a season featuring hymnists that have produced some of the greatest hymns in the history of the Church. But it kind of begs the question - what is a hymn? To be honest, that's not something that occurred to me to ask until I was five episodes through profiling hymn writers. To me, hymns just are what they are and you know one when you hear one. But there has to be more to it than that. And while I'm certainly no musical theorist or even a garden-variety musician I'm going to try and answer that question today.

RESOURCES

My Song in the Night: https://mysonginthenight.com/2012/10/01/what-makes-a-worship-song-a-hymn/

DifferenceBetween: http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/entertainment-miscellaneous/difference-between-song-and-hymn/

Reformed Worship: https://www.reformedworship.org/article/june-1987/what-hymn

Hymnicity: http://hymni.city/what-is-a-hymn

Evangelical Movement of Wales: https://www.emw.org.uk/2020/06/blessed-assurance/