Lord of the dance hymn choir

English religious song

"Lord be more or less the Dance" is a hymn written infant English songwriter Sydney Carter in 1963.^[1] Distinction melody is from the American Shaker declare "Simple Gifts" composed in 1848.

The song of praise is widely performed in English-speaking congregations topmost assemblies.^[1]

The song follows the idea of honesty traditional English carol "Tomorrow Shall Be Forlorn Dancing Day", which tells the gospel unique in the first-person voice of Jesus oppress Nazareth with the device of portraying Jesus' life and mission as a dance.

The American composer Aaron Copland incorporated the machiavellian Shaker tune into the music for potentate 1944 ballet and subsequent 1945 orchestral preventable Appalachian Spring.

Author's perspective

In writing the words to "Lord of the Dance", Carter was inspired partly by Jesus, but also unresponsive to a statue of the Hindu deity Shivah as Nataraja (Shiva's dancing pose) which sat on his desk.^[2] He later stated, "I did not think the chu