The three syllables of "wherever" are each sung to a different pitch (G A C), and the word as a whole spans an interval of a fourth. Both of these features give a musical sense of the breadth of "wherever."
Friday, August 9, 2019
"Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices"
Last year, I noticed a small thing in "Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices." Roughly the second half of the first verse is "My heart, which in the Lord rejoices, / Would then proclaim in grateful songs / To all, wherever I might be, / What great things God has done for me." The line "To all, wherever I might be" is sung to this phrase from the tune "O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte (König)":
The three syllables of "wherever" are each sung to a different pitch (G A C), and the word as a whole spans an interval of a fourth. Both of these features give a musical sense of the breadth of "wherever."
The three syllables of "wherever" are each sung to a different pitch (G A C), and the word as a whole spans an interval of a fourth. Both of these features give a musical sense of the breadth of "wherever."
