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Baker's own melodies often have a hymnlike solidity."Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes," she said."Another thing that I love about hymns is that despite being antiquated modes of worship " maybe " they contain these really emotive phrases.

In the Spotify studio, where they were cutting Want You Back with their keyboard player, Tommy King, and touring drummer, Jody Giachello, and Night So Long, a hymnlike Danielle solo, they geeked out over the vintage instruments and revealed the origins of their moves in the Want You Back video - "Mom dance, it's the coolest," Danielle said.

Muted winds and hymnlike strings marked mezzo piano, legato, espressivo ("Once our Lord looked and saw the world was good") suddenly change into an outcry of unmediated panic ("in His hand, God has got us in His hand").

But later in the album, she shares a song with her 13-year-old daughter, Tash: "Promise,'' a hymnlike vow of mutual support that begins with Amos singing, "Promise not to say that I'm getting too old'' and ends with Tash pledging, "I will rescue you.''

is the profound opening couplet about King David, and then immediately it has this Woody Allen-type line of, 'You don't really care for music, do you?' I remember it striking me the first time I heard the song as being really funny in a Philip Roth, exasperated kind of way--'I built this beautiful thing, but the girl only cares about the guy with a nice car.' (Light 20) At a 2012 awards ceremony where Cohen was honored for his artistic excellence, presenter Salman Rushdie also describes the song in comic terms, noting the rhyme between the liturgical "Hallelujah" and vernacular "what's it to ya." He characterizes it as "anthemic and hymnlike, but if you listen closely you hear the wit and jaundiced comedy" (Light xvi).

The first of the work's four movements is a hymnlike setting of a single sentence from Jefferson's 1774 "A Summary View of the Rights of British America":

The lead track from this album (right) is Winner, surely penned with the Olympics at the forefront of their minds with the opening gambit: "This is how we'll remember every day for the rest of our lives.'' And it's probably the nearest the duo come to excitement as they slip comfortably into their easy listening slippers while exploring a deep electronic sound with Hold On having a hymnlike hue to it and others taking on a Vangelis-style ambience.

There is a poem in Outtakes that pulls me in for its directness, for its essential hymnlike quality in which statement is almost naked in the light and at the same time infused with that light--little need for embellishment.

Thanks in part to Thurston Moore (who identified the wayward musician as a "secret influence"), the rise of the freak-folk musical genre in the mid-2'000s, and several recent tribute albums, Fahey's revered American primitive-style fingerpicking and hymnlike blues albums are today more recognized (and fortunately more accessible) than they were when he was alive.

In "Steadfastness," Bradley employs a strong, hymnlike tone to implore the continued faithfulness of God, despite the spiritual infidelity of the speaker:

A simple, almost hymnlike melody accompanies a lyric that Crosby himself helped to write, whose key line, coming directly after the title, is "someone waits for me." Though the song is plaintive in its longing for the distant beloved, her loyalty is never in doubt; like Brunnhilde or Sleeping Beauty, she waits only for one.