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#1 · March 8, 2012, 2:24 pm

Posted by: rxdca <rxdca@...>

A couple of years ago I played an arrangement of "What Child is this?" (may favorite Christmas carol) for solo guitar for our Christmas program at church. The arrangement that I used was actually an arrangement of the folk song "Greensleeves", which is actually the melody for "What Child". So, I have a question... I'm an electric guitar player mainly. There is an instrumental piece that was written for electric guitar. I would like to use it for an offertory instrumental. But it is a secular piece. Unlike What Child/Greensleeves it is purely an instrumental, lyrics have never existed for it. Is this any different than playing an instrumental to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" for an offertory?  Thoughts? Opinions?

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