Mark D Lew wrote:
On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:56 PM, dc wrote:
How many can you get in without page turns in the middle of a verse? I
think that's the main question.
If you have to go to two pages anyway, why *wouldn't* you split it three
and three?
The main reason to cram them all in is to save pages, right? It's not
like it adds work to do a big copy and paste to do the music twice.
The main reason would be so that the people singing the
alto, tenor and bass lines can see how the words line up
with the music -- anybody can follow the melody but it gets
much harder for the harmony parts to parse the lyrics to the
music when they're not printed between the staves. Any good
hymnal editor is going to put multi-page hymns on facing
pages, so a page turn wouldn't be necessary for most 6 verse
hymns. That 17-verse hymn by Charles Wesley which someone
mentioned a couple of posts back would certainly need a page
turn, as well as an extra shot of caffeine to stay awake
while singing all the verses! ;-)
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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