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#736: God the Sculptor of the Mountains
Dec. 10th, 2019 10:18 pmHow's the text?
Quite lovely, actually! There are great thematic images--God as creator, God as liberator (the Exodus story is often alluded to in the Easter narrative, although we don't want to appropriate Jewish scripture yada yada), bread and wine imagery in and beyond communion, and God in the person of Jesus. Good rhyming, good imagery.
Then why is this song not one of your favorites?
The melody is...not that good. There are times when "accidentals" (notes not expected, given the key you're in) break up monotony and make things interesting. Like, "Jerusalem," which we just did, had a couple of them, and that melody is a deserving classic. However, the accidental F natural in the third line seems very jarring to me, and hanging onto the C-sharp in the fourth line is also dissonant. So close and yet so far.
Quite lovely, actually! There are great thematic images--God as creator, God as liberator (the Exodus story is often alluded to in the Easter narrative, although we don't want to appropriate Jewish scripture yada yada), bread and wine imagery in and beyond communion, and God in the person of Jesus. Good rhyming, good imagery.
Then why is this song not one of your favorites?
The melody is...not that good. There are times when "accidentals" (notes not expected, given the key you're in) break up monotony and make things interesting. Like, "Jerusalem," which we just did, had a couple of them, and that melody is a deserving classic. However, the accidental F natural in the third line seems very jarring to me, and hanging onto the C-sharp in the fourth line is also dissonant. So close and yet so far.
