#344: All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Dec. 7th, 2018 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What do you associate this song with?
On Palm Sunday (a week before Easter), we often begin the service with a reading of the Palm Sunday story (Jesus' entry into Jerusalem) somewhere outside the sanctuary, then process in waving palm branches to emulate that. In big congregations this can take a long time, so we usually sing this song as we go, sometimes more than once through the verses.
What is the downside of this approach?
Because the organ is often far away from the place where we start, there's a big time lag between the accompaniment and the singing. This isn't so bad when you're super far away, because everyone is on the same page, but once you get close enough to sort of hear the organ, it becomes "all glory laud" "all glory laud" in an unexpected "round" style and you don't really know who to follow.
Does the music work as a round, then?
Not really.
On Palm Sunday (a week before Easter), we often begin the service with a reading of the Palm Sunday story (Jesus' entry into Jerusalem) somewhere outside the sanctuary, then process in waving palm branches to emulate that. In big congregations this can take a long time, so we usually sing this song as we go, sometimes more than once through the verses.
What is the downside of this approach?
Because the organ is often far away from the place where we start, there's a big time lag between the accompaniment and the singing. This isn't so bad when you're super far away, because everyone is on the same page, but once you get close enough to sort of hear the organ, it becomes "all glory laud" "all glory laud" in an unexpected "round" style and you don't really know who to follow.
Does the music work as a round, then?
Not really.