hymns in public schools...help!

Anyone out there?

I was following with great interest the comments and active discussions re:
hymn songs in schools.  I am doing a paper for a local school board -
PROBLEM:  my computer crashed (twice) and I of course lost all information.
If there is anyone who saved the comments - I would greatly appreciate it if
you could e-mail me these.
Thank you very kindly,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CHORALTALK-L] Hymn tunes


> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Choraltalk Gateway) wrote:
>
> > I think someone objected to changing words used with the hymn tunes. The
> > reason
> > English hymn tunes have names is because they are usually intended to be
> > used
> > with any words that fit.
>
> I'm not sure I agree that this is a general rule.  Perhaps the majority
> of tunes are general-purpose, but actually a fair number of tunes were
> written with particular texts in mind.  Indeed, their names often
> reflect that intended association ("Darwall's 148th" was originally
> associated with a metrical version of the 148th psalm, for example;
> "Jerusalem" has a clear link to Blake's poem;  "Love Unknown" is the
> theme of the associated text.)
>
> I for one am not always comfortable when tunes are taken but matched to
> new words, when they were intentionally matched to specific words on
> composition.  (I realize that I am not entirely aligned with current
> practice, particularly in the Episcopal Church in the USA.)
>