#627: O Day Full of Grace
Apr. 12th, 2020 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsHappy Easter to those who celebrate! (In the Western calendar anyway, Orthodox Easter is next week.)
The opening melody is a C major chord which is probably the first chord you learn in piano lessons so that's kind of neat.
This song is interesting in that it comes with two sets of lyrics for verses 2-4, and they're fairly different from each other in translation. The main set is about great days in the church year (Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost); the alternate set is sort of about Christmas and then nature metaphors (trees, birds, etc).
It's heavy on the feminine rhymes, mostly of the -ing form, but some other original ones (horizon/season/emblazon is pretty bold, I like it). The alternate set has more original ones (cherish/perish! ...nourish).
I want to say that this song is associated with one of the Lutheran school (college?) choirs my relatives went to, but that's a lot of schools, so I'm not really sure which.
I like the lyrics in general, especially the last verse--describing the journey to heaven as "we'll gather in song."
The opening melody is a C major chord which is probably the first chord you learn in piano lessons so that's kind of neat.
This song is interesting in that it comes with two sets of lyrics for verses 2-4, and they're fairly different from each other in translation. The main set is about great days in the church year (Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost); the alternate set is sort of about Christmas and then nature metaphors (trees, birds, etc).
It's heavy on the feminine rhymes, mostly of the -ing form, but some other original ones (horizon/season/emblazon is pretty bold, I like it). The alternate set has more original ones (cherish/perish! ...nourish).
I want to say that this song is associated with one of the Lutheran school (college?) choirs my relatives went to, but that's a lot of schools, so I'm not really sure which.
I like the lyrics in general, especially the last verse--describing the journey to heaven as "we'll gather in song."
