#535: Hallelujah! We Sing Your Praises

Doesn't the little | | :   .... : | | mean "sing the part between these symbols twice"?

Yes.

Then why does it say "repeat stanza, then sing refrain?"

Sometimes people are slow and don't get it.

Anything weird about the harmonization?

The alto part looks pretty normal. From a glance, however, the men's parts have a fairly broad range; at one point the basses are down at a low G, and at another, the tenors are up at a high F.

Is that bad? Good?

I don't know, I'm not a tenor. I guess the weirder thing there is that it's an F-natural, against the tenors' B, which is a tritone, and which usually sounds fairly dissonant to people.

Does it sound better in the context of the women's parts?

Probably yeah.