#502: The King of Love My Shepherd Is
May. 2nd, 2021 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThis isn't part of a cohesive mini-section, but it's yet another adaptation of Psalm 23, which as I've mentioned is not too long so you can stretch it out verse-by-verse. There are some second-person issues; to get the feminine rhymes to be consistent, you have to use rhymes like "leadeth/feedeth," "bestoweth/floweth," and then the other verses are like "beside me/guide me," "sought me/brought me," "never/forever" (twice).
The tenor/alto crossover is one of those things that I would not have expected to start tracking at the beginning of this blog, and yet keeps showing up with surprises. Towards the end of the third line, the tenors and altos overlap, okay. Then on the last chord of the line, the basses and altos overlap on middle C, and the tenors and sopranos overlap on the E-flat above it. Crossover action!
Meanwhile, on hymns in the wild, I was at an indoor service today where we sang hymns as a group for the first time since the pandemic hit here. But the selections were pretty different than the Lutheran books we're using; I get the feeling that both "In the Garden" and "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" are pretty popular in some traditions, but neither show up in the ELW (or its main predecessors), and I get the feeling some of my associates would dismiss them as "too cheesy/sentimental." (This may be just me trying to work out my ambivalence. But hey, it's been over a year, I'm ready to sing whatever!)
The tenor/alto crossover is one of those things that I would not have expected to start tracking at the beginning of this blog, and yet keeps showing up with surprises. Towards the end of the third line, the tenors and altos overlap, okay. Then on the last chord of the line, the basses and altos overlap on middle C, and the tenors and sopranos overlap on the E-flat above it. Crossover action!
Meanwhile, on hymns in the wild, I was at an indoor service today where we sang hymns as a group for the first time since the pandemic hit here. But the selections were pretty different than the Lutheran books we're using; I get the feeling that both "In the Garden" and "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" are pretty popular in some traditions, but neither show up in the ELW (or its main predecessors), and I get the feeling some of my associates would dismiss them as "too cheesy/sentimental." (This may be just me trying to work out my ambivalence. But hey, it's been over a year, I'm ready to sing whatever!)
