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#861: When Long before Time
May. 3rd, 2021 10:47 pmThis is the home stretch! We've finished all the other sections, so we'll be going straight through with Praise/Thanksgiving to the end. (Except I will probably do a proofread or two to see if I've missed anything that I need to loop back to.)
Very big tenor/bass gaps; the entire "left hand" range is an octave plus a sixth, and there are a couple places where they're almost that entire distance (an octave plus a fifth) apart.
Lots of Jesus=Proper Nouns, with an extended metaphor of God the Creator as Singer and Jesus as incarnate Song. And a literal translation of "Emmanuel" as "God-is-with-us" (one word, hyphens theirs). The music motif is a cool concept, but it doesn't quite stick the landing for me, in part because of rhymes like "Song"/"began."
Very big tenor/bass gaps; the entire "left hand" range is an octave plus a sixth, and there are a couple places where they're almost that entire distance (an octave plus a fifth) apart.
Lots of Jesus=Proper Nouns, with an extended metaphor of God the Creator as Singer and Jesus as incarnate Song. And a literal translation of "Emmanuel" as "God-is-with-us" (one word, hyphens theirs). The music motif is a cool concept, but it doesn't quite stick the landing for me, in part because of rhymes like "Song"/"began."
