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#833: Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices
Sep. 13th, 2020 11:02 pmI'm not sure if this is adapted from a psalm or what, because there's also a hymn called "Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" which is not this one.
The melody starts with a written rest, which is fairly unusual--more often, if the first beat isn't at the start of a measure, they would just do "pickup notes" (less than a full measure) and then put the "extra" notes at the end. But the last few notes are slowed down, so I guess they didn't want to add the extra beat back in.
I know I say this a lot but there are some huge tenor/bass gaps, particularly the octave-plus-a-fifth in the last line.
Eventually the text changes from "let me praise God" to "let every living thing praise God;" the speaker tells the plants that they "live to show forth praise alone." And like...they're not supposed to show any other kind of emotion, but I would say they also live to be part of the ecosystem and nourish other aspects of creation?
The melody starts with a written rest, which is fairly unusual--more often, if the first beat isn't at the start of a measure, they would just do "pickup notes" (less than a full measure) and then put the "extra" notes at the end. But the last few notes are slowed down, so I guess they didn't want to add the extra beat back in.
I know I say this a lot but there are some huge tenor/bass gaps, particularly the octave-plus-a-fifth in the last line.
Eventually the text changes from "let me praise God" to "let every living thing praise God;" the speaker tells the plants that they "live to show forth praise alone." And like...they're not supposed to show any other kind of emotion, but I would say they also live to be part of the ecosystem and nourish other aspects of creation?
