Songbook: "Sing Out Joyfully" to Jehovah

[Thesauron]

Did I hear correctly that he is serving in the South Korea branch office? I may have got it wrong/lost in translation....

Isn't Reino and Lesli serving in Estonia?


Johan

[Rochelle]

9 hours ago, Skye said:

Did I hear correctly that he is serving in the South Korea branch office? I may have got it wrong/lost in translation....

Sister Fae you are right - somehow I got it mixed up - but yes, currently Brother Kesk an his wife are serving in the South Korean Bransch.

 

[Rochelle]

Ah, and yes, my expectations about receiving the new song book in german was wrong too- even though at one point Br. Kesk quoted Ps. 96:1,2 (Sing to Jehovah...) and I almost jumped out of my chair. But no... I was wrong...

[Rochelle]

9 hours ago, Thesauron said:

Isn't Reino and Lesli serving in Estonia?


Johan

As Br. Kesk mentioned he and his wife were in Estonia but currently they are serving in the South Korean Branch

[halfspanishlee]

I live in London and my congregation still haven't got our songbook yet

[Sheep]

12 hours ago, Thesauron said:

Isn't Reino and Lesli serving in Estonia?

 

2 hours ago, Rochelle said:

As Br. Kesk mentioned he and his wife were in Estonia but currently they are serving in the South Korean Branch

Yes, they used to serve in Estonia. Estonia is featured in the 2011 Yearbook, pages 162-255. They come into the story starting at the end of page 233, right to the end. There is a picture of them on page 243 (printed edition only).

[Thesauron]

Ah, and yes, my expectations about receiving the new song book in german was wrong too- even though at one point Br. Kesk quoted Ps. 96:1,2 (Sing to Jehovah...) and I almost jumped out of my chair. But no... I was wrong...

It'll come much sooner than you think. The translators will probably base it on the revised bible, hence the wait. But since you are starting to receive publications quoting the revision (according to RTO instructions), it must mean they are starting to get enough verses in place to be able to finish the songbook. So just hold on a little while.


Johan

I live in London and my congregation still haven't got our songbook yet

The printed editions for the western world is not a priority. It's a priority for the smaller languages that never had a songbook before.


Johan

[Thesauron]

The songbook as prepared in Inuktitut (syllabic writing).

This is a very young written language for the Quebecois Inuktitut people of the Nunavut and Nunavik regions. This written language was established in 1976.


Johan

[Araujo JW]

We will be using our new songbook today for the first time in our meetings, along with the video with the lyrics on the screen! 

 

Very happy! 

 

 

[Thesauron]

We will be using our new songbook today for the first time in our meetings, along with the video with the lyrics on the screen! 
 
Very happy! 
 

 

That's awesome. Sweden will begin on Saturday.


Johan

[On the huh]

On ‎28‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 10:03 AM, halfspanishlee said:

I live in London and my congregation still haven't got our songbook yet

Maybe they forgot to order them.

[Lucas]

1 hour ago, Araujo JW said:

Vamos usar o nosso novo songbook hoje pela primeira vez em nossas reuniões, juntamente com o vídeo com as letras na tela! 

 

Muito feliz! 

 

 

Our meeting here was yesterday .... it was amazing!

[Skye]

On 5/14/2017 at 9:15 AM, Skye said:

I used to prefer the screen since I could lift my head and project my voice, but lately, the lyrics are slower that the melody. So we keep missing (and therefore mumble) the first word  of every new page.

Yesterday at the meetings we had a different video for the song parts, one where the lyrics scroll up. So, problem solved! I can now say with certainty that I prefer singing using the lyrics video. 

[Thesauron]

Yesterday at the meetings we had a different video for the song parts, one where the lyrics scroll up. So, problem solved! I can now say with certainty that I prefer singing using the lyrics video. 

I'm still interested in why it all of a sudden started to lag. The videos show the lyrics 1 second ahead of the melody, I believe. Maybe the brothers need to look at the video setup so it syncs with audio?


Johan

[Ivine]

I realized that people sang louder with those new songs. It was amazing how attendance was excited to start singing them. I sang so loud that my voice almost got hoarse!

Edited June 2, 2017 by Ivine

[Skye]

2 minutes ago, Thesauron said:

I'm still interested in why it all of a sudden started to lag. The videos show the lyrics 1 second ahead of the melody, I believe. Maybe the brothers need to look at the video setup so it syncs with audio?

Johan

 

You asked before whether we are using locally-produced videos....I honestly do not know. The new video has a dark-blue background with white/grey color lyrics.....looks different from the former one which was a grey background with black color lyrics (more like what's on the JW Lib app and JW.org.)

[Skye]

CLAM: This week's middle song (song 41 - Please hear my prayer) was a bit hard to sing for most as the key is rather high at the beginning of the song. But the first and last song were belted out! I like!!

[On the huh]

2 hours ago, Skye said:

You asked before whether we are using locally-produced videos....I honestly do not know. The new video has a dark-blue background with white/grey color lyrics.....looks different from the former one which was a grey background with black color lyrics (more like what's on the JW Lib app and JW.org.)

The official videos are with grey background and black lyrics.  Anything else is either made by someone else or something else, like computer generated. 

[Thesauron]

It was with great enthusiasm and joy my Swedish congregation used the new songbook for the first time today, as well as the new lyrics on video. The printed edition is still in preparation.


Johan

[On the huh]

I just noticed that the piano and orchestral music mp3s for the Sing to Jehovah songbook has been removed from all areas of the website and library app.  (it still is available in some languages, but for English and many others it is gone).  Chorus still remains as do the Kingdom Melodies.  Has this just happened or did I miss it?  Perhaps it won't be long before all the old music is removed soon and replace by the Chorus and Kingdom Melodies versions of the new song book.

[On the huh]

Its not just the Sing to Jehovah mp3s, but also the PDFs and JW Library can't download the publication anymore.  Its been wiped out

[juliansan]

5 hours ago, Jonathan77 said:

I just noticed that the piano and orchestral music mp3s for the Sing to Jehovah songbook has been removed from all areas of the website and library app.  (it still is available in some languages, but for English and many others it is gone).  Chorus still remains as do the Kingdom Melodies.  Has this just happened or did I miss it?  Perhaps it won't be long before all the old music is removed soon and replace by the Chorus and Kingdom Melodies versions of the new song book.

A new collection of Kingdom Melodies would be great

[Thesauron]

Its not just the Sing to Jehovah mp3s, but also the PDFs and JW Library can't download the publication anymore.  Its been wiped out

There is no need to keep it if we are not going to use it.


Johan

A new collection of Kingdom Melodies would be great

True, even though vocal recordings are better for memorising lyrics.


Johan

[Rochelle]

GREAT NEWS for Germany: From January 2018 onward we will sing from the new Song-book  as it is mentioned in the first study-article of the Nov. 2017 Study-Edition of the WT wih the super-fitting title: Make a joyful Sound!

[Thesauron]

GREAT NEWS for Germany: From January 2018 onward we will sing from the new Song-book  as it is mentioned in the first study-article of the Nov. 2017 Study-Edition of the WT wih the super-fitting title: Make a joyful Sound!

Fantastic. It's a lovely songbook. If your BoE so chooses, you can use the videos for lyrics, as I know many congregations do. It helps the singing for many people since it makes them look up, not down into a songbook. It will also be based on the revised NWT in German, so some expressions might be new to you.

 

 

Johan