#245: Creator of the Stars of Night
Nov. 7th, 2019 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsAre there more verses to this song?
Yes, in some translations.
The reason I know this is because at a previous church, the choir (which I was not in) sung it as an anthem, and there was a line about "...from pole to pole and sea to sea." And that gave me a very nerdy idea for a math-themed parody that had basically nothing to do with the original song. (I wrote a series of math-themed parodies of Christmas/Advent songs, but eventually the well kind of ran dry.)
Does the ending change the key signature?
Not really. It's one of those plainsong chants that ends on the third of the scale and "feels" a bit more major than minor, but that's kind of a judgment call. Then the last verse has an extra a-a-a-men, which...also ends on the third of the scale.
Yes, in some translations.
The reason I know this is because at a previous church, the choir (which I was not in) sung it as an anthem, and there was a line about "...from pole to pole and sea to sea." And that gave me a very nerdy idea for a math-themed parody that had basically nothing to do with the original song. (I wrote a series of math-themed parodies of Christmas/Advent songs, but eventually the well kind of ran dry.)
Does the ending change the key signature?
Not really. It's one of those plainsong chants that ends on the third of the scale and "feels" a bit more major than minor, but that's kind of a judgment call. Then the last verse has an extra a-a-a-men, which...also ends on the third of the scale.
