Not really unexpected....

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You scored as Highbrow Protestant. You find "praise band" music more regretable than sinful, and you long instead for the likes of Wesley and Watts (all verses!), fancy choral anthems & descants, and organ pieces in minor keys. </td> Super-highbrow Protestant 85% Highbrow Protestant 85% Grumpy Old Fundamentalist 70% Semi-Pagan 70% Classic Quaker 60% Non-instrumentalist 55% Old Time Believer 55% Neo-Lutheran 55% Catholic 45% Contemporary Evangelical 25% What's Your Church Musicianship created with QuizFarm.com

I discovered traditional English congregational singing when I first came to England to learn the language, and was bowled over. The wealth of beautiful hymns and the eagerness of the congregation to sing them made an enormous contrast with my Italian Catholic background; and it did not hurt that the very first hymn I ever heard sung was one of the very loveliest ("O worship the King all glorious above..." - set to the mighty Hannover tune, for you Americans who unfortunately seem to suffer from an inferior setting). Since then, congregational singing is the one thing in which I have been more Wesleyan than Catholic. Gregorian chant can be very inspiring, and the great church repertory of the Church from the middle ages through Palestrina to the great classical composers is obviously matchless, but it is too professional; I would rather hear a whole congregation singing than a professional choir, however brilliant. The best, of course, is to have both, as the best Anglican services manage. (One thing, though. Anglican chant is the boringest thing on Earth - an inferior version of Catholic plainchant. And Anglican anthems, as opposed to hymns, tend to be overrated, unless of course Purcell or Haendel composed them.)

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[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know any of the hymns that they named as examples. *laughs*
I like hymns best, too... but I have to admit, when it comes to Mass, I like going to the Masses where everything is spoken, except that the Agnus Dei and similar are sung in Latin with no accompaniment.
I have a pet peeve for people trying to do an impromptu harmony though. Even when they get it right (which isn't often!) it's distracting.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I got Semi-Pagan! *laughs* What an interesting quiz, just up my alley. I thought I might get Neo-Lutheran, but apparently I put too much emphasis on music instead of sincerity.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

*likes Anglican chant*

The tune we use for "O Worship the King" is a very nice one, IMO, though I also like "Hanover." Interestingly, the first five notes of the two tunes are identical, as I discovered to my embarrassment the first time I sang the hymn in England from a text-only copy of a hymnal.

You can hear our tune ("Lyons") here. Click on either the midi or mp3; both are piano performances in what I'd describe as a very tasteful Gospel style (whaddya mean, "oxymoron"?).

[photosynthesis.livejournal.com]

You scored as Super-highbrow Protestant. You would look forward to a Bach cantata every Sunday morning if you could, and, as far as you know, "Newsboys" are young men in caps who sell papers from kiosks on city streets. </td> Super-highbrow Protestant 95% Catholic 80% Non-instrumentalist 70% Grumpy Old Fundamentalist 65% Classic Quaker 65% Highbrow Protestant 60% Semi-Pagan 50% Neo-Lutheran 30% Contemporary Evangelical 15% Old Time Believer 0% What's Your Church Musicianship created with QuizFarm.com

I think I got "super highbrow protestant" because I like music such as Taize, gospel, P&W, Shape Note Singing, for prayer gatherings, but when it's the Mass I like Gregorian Chant and sacred polyphony.