Amazing Grace

**ScottInNewHampshire** · 6th June 07, 07:17 AM

Help. Someone started a thread about music at funerals (wondering if Amazing Grace is as popular in other countires as it is in the United States) but now I can't find the thread.

The real question is the other song that was mentioned as being highly requested. Was it "The Flowers of the Fields" or "Flowers of Scotland". They are both beautiful songs.

Several others were mentioned as well. Tried using the search feature but still . . .

Thanks.

**Mike1** · 6th June 07, 07:28 AM

Moved to Off Topic from Tech Questions

**haukehaien** · 6th June 07, 07:49 AM

"Flowers of the Forest" is the most common. "Going Home" and "The Dark Isle" are also fairly common.

**McClef** · 6th June 07, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by haukehaien

"Flowers of the Forest" is the most common. "Going Home" and "The Dark Isle" are also fairly common.

"Going Home" as in the second movement of Dvorack's 9th Symphony do I take it?

**haukehaien** · 6th June 07, 11:23 AM

"Going Home" is a hymn set to that tune, yes. (I didn't know Dvorak wrote the music for that hymn. Good call, McClef.)

**fluter** · 6th June 07, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by haukehaien

"Going Home" is a hymn set to that tune, yes. (I didn't know Dvorak wrote the music for that hymn. Good call, McClef.)

... and when he wrote it, he lived in New York City! He also spent a summer in Iowa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin...2.80.931895.29

**McClef** · 6th June 07, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by fluter

... and when he wrote it, he lived in New York City! He also spent a summer in Iowa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin...2.80.931895.29

That's why the symphony is subtitled From the New World

**Richland** · 6th June 07, 01:17 PM

Is this the same music?
a Beautiful piece by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
http://www.iwo.com/heroes.htm
A beautiful rendition set to photos.

**beloitpiper** · 6th June 07, 01:45 PM

AS a funeral piper, I must recommend Highland Cathedral. Not only is it incredibly moving and beautiful, but when you have a church organ play with a piper, there won't be a dry eye in the place.

Here's an mp3 so you can understand what I'm talking about:
http://kilby.sac.on.ca/ActivitiesClu...0Cathedral.mp3

This was recorded by the 142nd St. Andrew's College Highland Cadet Corps with St. Paul's Organ.

**Rampant Lion** · 6th June 07, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

AS a funeral piper, I must recommend Highland Cathedral. Not only is it incredibly moving and beautiful, but when you have a church organ play with a piper, there won't be a dry eye in the place.

Here's an mp3 so you can understand what I'm talking about:
http://kilby.sac.on.ca/ActivitiesClu...0Cathedral.mp3

This was recorded by the 142nd St. Andrew's College Highland Cadet Corps with St. Paul's Organ.

Wow. That's beautiful. I've never heard that before. Thanks for the link.