#875: Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord!
May. 23rd, 2021 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsEarly last year (pre-pandemic) I had recently started attending a new-to-me church, and during the Epiphany season they had a very geographically diverse collection of liturgy songs, including this one from Cameroon, and also songs from Russia, the Caribbean, Botswana, Ghana, the Philippines, Argentina, and South Africa. I was like "this would be a competitive World Cup pot." Turns out they did it this year as well (virtually), they just like a wide-ranging mix.
The main harmonization is one treble-clef melody and two bass-clef accompaniment parts, but there are a few notes with a third (optional, super-low) bass-clef part, and the entire song has an optional (indicated by small notes) descant. So in that sense the "sopranos" are the optional accompaniment part and the "altos" are the real melody! That's an oversimplification, but it's nice to pretend.
The main harmonization is one treble-clef melody and two bass-clef accompaniment parts, but there are a few notes with a third (optional, super-low) bass-clef part, and the entire song has an optional (indicated by small notes) descant. So in that sense the "sopranos" are the optional accompaniment part and the "altos" are the real melody! That's an oversimplification, but it's nice to pretend.
