#394: Hail Thee, Festival Day!
Mar. 26th, 2021 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsNot familiar with this one at all, but there's a lot going on here! Text is by the excellent name "Venantius Honorius Fortunatus." There's a refrain, which sounds as if it's about Easter; "day when our Lord was raised." And then there are verses it alternates with. So far so good.
The verses, however, don't all have the same melody; 1/3/5 have their own melody, and 2/4/6 have a different one with lots of triplets. Both tunes have essentially the same meter (I would call it 7977), but apparently there are enough doubled-up notes that it goes with "irregular." So technically, it doesn't qualify as a "double hymn tune," but I would call it an honorable mention in that category.
But even weirder, there are actually three different versions of verse 1, for Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost respectively! Ascension sort of fits in this mini-section, Pentecost is its own thing. We get Northern hemisphere bias with "from the death of the winter arising" in the Easter section.
And then there's an Easter-specific verse 2, and also an alternate verse 2 for Ascension or Pentecost...but they print it twice, because there were three verse 1s so we have to have three verse 2s. I guess. The category of "choose verse depending on what week it is" is probably too small to warrant its own tag, but it's a thing!
Anyway, maybe the fact that it's this complicated is the reason I can't remember actually singing it.
The verses, however, don't all have the same melody; 1/3/5 have their own melody, and 2/4/6 have a different one with lots of triplets. Both tunes have essentially the same meter (I would call it 7977), but apparently there are enough doubled-up notes that it goes with "irregular." So technically, it doesn't qualify as a "double hymn tune," but I would call it an honorable mention in that category.
But even weirder, there are actually three different versions of verse 1, for Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost respectively! Ascension sort of fits in this mini-section, Pentecost is its own thing. We get Northern hemisphere bias with "from the death of the winter arising" in the Easter section.
And then there's an Easter-specific verse 2, and also an alternate verse 2 for Ascension or Pentecost...but they print it twice, because there were three verse 1s so we have to have three verse 2s. I guess. The category of "choose verse depending on what week it is" is probably too small to warrant its own tag, but it's a thing!
Anyway, maybe the fact that it's this complicated is the reason I can't remember actually singing it.
