#710: Let Streams of Living Justice
Oct. 28th, 2019 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsDon't I know this melody?
Yes, it's "Jupiter" by Gustav Holst, or at least "the slow part."
Isn't it awesome?
Yes! One of my friends keeps posting Facebook statuses about "Jupiter is the best planet, especially when it's slow," and eventually I realized that wasn't a commentary on the orbits around the sun but rather this section of the piece.
Is the text as awesome as the melody?
In fact yes! It looks like it was written at the end of the Cold War, so we get progressive language like "healing of the nations" and "strike down the iron pow'r," and an extended metaphor about weaving (it's better than it sounds). Then we get "your city's built to music," and he interweaves the triads of "faith, hope, love" and "the way, the truth, the life," across several lines so it's not anvil-y but very tied together.
Sounds like the names of some fantasy series.
Yeah, in one of my fictional settings I cribbed a bunch from here (and other hymns) as the in-universe titles of an epic science fiction saga that was the fictional world's version of "Wheel of Time"-esque doorstoppers. So my characters can allude to something epic, without me actually having to write it down.
Does everyone agree about the grandeur of this melody fitting this text?
Some of the members of my old choir do not, but they are haters and losers.
Yes, it's "Jupiter" by Gustav Holst, or at least "the slow part."
Isn't it awesome?
Yes! One of my friends keeps posting Facebook statuses about "Jupiter is the best planet, especially when it's slow," and eventually I realized that wasn't a commentary on the orbits around the sun but rather this section of the piece.
Is the text as awesome as the melody?
In fact yes! It looks like it was written at the end of the Cold War, so we get progressive language like "healing of the nations" and "strike down the iron pow'r," and an extended metaphor about weaving (it's better than it sounds). Then we get "your city's built to music," and he interweaves the triads of "faith, hope, love" and "the way, the truth, the life," across several lines so it's not anvil-y but very tied together.
Sounds like the names of some fantasy series.
Yeah, in one of my fictional settings I cribbed a bunch from here (and other hymns) as the in-universe titles of an epic science fiction saga that was the fictional world's version of "Wheel of Time"-esque doorstoppers. So my characters can allude to something epic, without me actually having to write it down.
Does everyone agree about the grandeur of this melody fitting this text?
Some of the members of my old choir do not, but they are haters and losers.
