What's the difference between hymnal and hymnology?

Hymnal


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of hymns; a hymn book.

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  • (1) It's a hymnal drift through dub, funk and ethereal electronica, topped off by insightful musings on everything from the origins of his depression to the state of the world.
  • (2) Melodically and as a piece of rousing hymnal music it’s great.
  • (3) When Drake played him 'Way to Blue', Kirby brought out its hymnal qualities, scoring an arrangement that owed more to Handel than the undergraduate favourites of the day.
  • (4) Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal Facebook Twitter Pinterest Of all the music that got revived in the noughties, folk in its many varieties was perhaps the most improbable.
  • (5) The grace described in one of my favorite hymnals – the one we all know: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
  • (6) Ms is almost hymnal – smells like Benedictine spirit – as though Alt-J have taken refuge from reality and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in that Cambridge basement of theirs.

Hymnology


Definition:

  • (n.) The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.
  • (n.) A knowledge of hymns; a treatise on hymns.

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