{"id":1479,"date":"2012-05-21T16:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2024-09-16T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:41:39","slug":"songs-we-sing-evening-lamps-are-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/songs-we-sing-evening-lamps-are-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Sing: Evening Lamps Are Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia\u2019s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Evening-Lamps-Are-Lit.m4a\">Evening Lamps Are Lit<\/a>\u00a0is a piece by our friend, Ana Hernandez, that can be found in the volume, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchpublishing.org\/products\/index.cfm?fuseaction=productDetail&amp;productID=3266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music By Heart<\/a>. We sing it during the summer months as a Lamp Lighting Song. \u00a0It&#8217;s great with shruti box and drum.<\/p>\n<p>The words to the main melody are&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Evening lamps are lit<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Firelight all around<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Evening lamps are lit<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Praise and thanksgiving sound<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a rhythmic countermelody that goes together with the main melody. The words are:<br \/>\n<em>Light of the World, of endless blessing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sun of our night, lamp of our days<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Light of the World, of endless blessing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We raise our hearts in light and praise<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are some written parts for <a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Evening-Lamps-Are-Lit-%E2%80%94-Flute.pdf\">flute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Evening-Lamps-Are-Lit-%E2%80%94-Violin.pdf\">violin<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Evening-Lamps-Are-Lit-%E2%80%94-Viola.pdf\">viola<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia\u2019s. Evening Lamps Are Lit\u00a0is a piece by our friend, Ana Hernandez, that can be found in the volume, Music By Heart. We sing it during the summer months as a Lamp Lighting Song. \u00a0It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[55,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}