#587: There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Dec. 22nd, 2018 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsWhat's going on at the beginning?
The little notes are so you can hear the accompaniment part and then know where to come in.
Is the accompaniment part so important that it needs a few bonus measures?
I'm not sure, but it's pretty good.
Is that the best thing about the song?
No, that would be the text. "Thousands of new worlds!" "false limits of our own" narrowing our conception of God's love! I think it's a really brilliant summation of God's grace and our human tendency to feel guilty and unworthy of it.
Has your choir sung any arrangements of this?
Yes, but it's a less meaningful textual setting in my opinion. By Gwyneth Walker, who we'll probably run into later.
The little notes are so you can hear the accompaniment part and then know where to come in.
Is the accompaniment part so important that it needs a few bonus measures?
I'm not sure, but it's pretty good.
Is that the best thing about the song?
No, that would be the text. "Thousands of new worlds!" "false limits of our own" narrowing our conception of God's love! I think it's a really brilliant summation of God's grace and our human tendency to feel guilty and unworthy of it.
Has your choir sung any arrangements of this?
Yes, but it's a less meaningful textual setting in my opinion. By Gwyneth Walker, who we'll probably run into later.
