#263: Savior of the Nations, Come
Jan. 20th, 2021 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsBig gaps in the tenor/bass parts, and big gaps between the text sources; this was based on a Latin hymn by St. Ambrose of Milan in the 300s, then a German text by Martin Luther in the 1500s, and then arranged by the "hymnal version." Which I guess we do have a tag for those translations by committee!
The meter is pretty regular, it would work fine as a 4/4 song. Instead they've written it out as plainsong without measures, and just put a breath mark between phrases, which happens to be...very regular, see above.
Verse 5 almost has too many rhyming words; the main rhyme of the first two lines is bright/light. But then the middle of line 2 we get "night" contrasted with "light," and then verse 3 also has "night" and "light" but not for the rhyme. Okay guys, we get it.
The meter is pretty regular, it would work fine as a 4/4 song. Instead they've written it out as plainsong without measures, and just put a breath mark between phrases, which happens to be...very regular, see above.
Verse 5 almost has too many rhyming words; the main rhyme of the first two lines is bright/light. But then the middle of line 2 we get "night" contrasted with "light," and then verse 3 also has "night" and "light" but not for the rhyme. Okay guys, we get it.
