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#247: Come Now, O Prince of Peace
Feb. 10th, 2020 10:19 pmBack to the top!
Shannon density is fairly low--the first lines are fairly distinct across the verses but the second lines are repeated from verse 1/2 and then 3/4. The fact that there's only one Korean verse and four English ones makes me suspect that there weren't really that many different words to begin with, although maybe the translators were just like "the Anglophones aren't going to know the difference between an o and an o with a curve on top of it anyway, let's just leave it at one verse."
The alto part is fairly interesting, inasmuch as it goes down to the low G which isn't fairly common. (That's one of the rare cases where they actually overlap with the tenors--the soprano/alto split would be too wide for me to play on the piano, except it'd be fine because the altos would be just down in the left hand with the tenors.)
On "hymns in the wild," I was reading a (very interesting) biography of Jackie Robinson and his religious influences, and it went in depth about Branch Rickey's Methodism. Apparently he also considered "There's A Wideness In God's Mercy" one of his favorites. Good taste.
Shannon density is fairly low--the first lines are fairly distinct across the verses but the second lines are repeated from verse 1/2 and then 3/4. The fact that there's only one Korean verse and four English ones makes me suspect that there weren't really that many different words to begin with, although maybe the translators were just like "the Anglophones aren't going to know the difference between an o and an o with a curve on top of it anyway, let's just leave it at one verse."
The alto part is fairly interesting, inasmuch as it goes down to the low G which isn't fairly common. (That's one of the rare cases where they actually overlap with the tenors--the soprano/alto split would be too wide for me to play on the piano, except it'd be fine because the altos would be just down in the left hand with the tenors.)
On "hymns in the wild," I was reading a (very interesting) biography of Jackie Robinson and his religious influences, and it went in depth about Branch Rickey's Methodism. Apparently he also considered "There's A Wideness In God's Mercy" one of his favorites. Good taste.
