Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.
Showing posts with label Irby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irby. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22, 2017

"Irby"


This is the usual one-verse-of-one-arrangement-one-verse-of-an-other (the accompanying text is "Once in Royal David's City," LW #58, LSB #376).  I hadn't realized until recording this that there's a slight difference in the melody between the two hymnals.  In the LSB arrangement, at the end of each of the last two phrases, two quarter notes are tied with a dotted line; sometimes they act as two quarter notes (for two syllables), and sometimes they act as a single half note (for one syllable).  In the LW arrangement though, they're written and always sung as half notes.  The lyrics are different to accommodate this.