#266: All Earth is Hopeful

This is one of my favorites from when my kids' choir sang it. The repeated references to hope and freedom are great, they're phrased slightly differently but work in both languages. The translation is pretty good--you get weird phrasing like "new protocols [will need to be] declared" in English when I don't think the Spanish had anything as weird as "protocols" sounds to us. We also have the issues where "brothers" is more inclusive in Spanish than in English, so that has to be reworded, and you can tell it's from Spain because they use the -d vosotros commands!

The melody for the first three verses ends on the second note of the scale, which creates momentum and carries you forward into the next verse--it's not "resolved," so you want to push forward. But the last verse comes to a satisfying conclusion on the tonic with the "resolution" of "free"/"libertad," so the musical notation is "okay verses one through three go here and repeat, the last time through, jump to this slightly different measure."