tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post8090294980473659567..comments2023-12-03T03:04:42.826-05:00Comments on Conjubilant with Song: The Feast of Christ the KingC.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-78286177172463996642008-11-26T12:21:00.000-05:002008-11-26T12:21:00.000-05:00You are probably right that "peculiar" should be c...You are probably right that "peculiar" should be changed; we no longer think of it as meaning "unique" or "individual." But I do have a certain affection for some of these archaisms. It's the ones I have no particular attachment to that I change. Arbitrary and capricious, I know (but really, what editor isn't, to some extent?)<BR/><BR/>I have some vague memory of singing this text to TRURO, but I can't recall where or from what hymnal.C.W.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-39349311091370457682008-11-24T02:13:00.000-05:002008-11-24T02:13:00.000-05:00I would also love to know more of the "King George...I would also love to know more of the "King George, the sable, of the South Sea Islands" referred to in the Cyberhymnal notes. I was not aware that there ever had been a "paramount chief" in post-Wesleyan times ruling over "Tonga, Fiji and Samoa". What does "the sable" mean here? "Of colour"?Leland Bryant Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211499185401035099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-52255968014382239862008-11-23T16:35:00.000-05:002008-11-23T16:35:00.000-05:00I think if I were doing the alterations on this on...I think if I were doing the alterations on this one I would be likely to alter "peculiar" to something less peculiar. Like Jehovah's "awful" throne, "peculiar" has (I think) acquired enough of an aroma of the pejorative for a large enough percentage of today's anglophone congregants to warrant if not demand emendation. What the best alternative might be I'm not so sure, and <A HREF="http://miahimnareto.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/jesus-shall-reign-whereer-the-sun/" REL="nofollow">I'd welcome suggestions at my blog</A>.<BR/><BR/>I'd also be interested in tune ideas. The association between this text and this tune (DUKE STREET) is one of the strongest in the business. In the 25 hymnals I've catalogued it in so far, all 25 have it—on average 4.5 stanzas—set to <I>Duke Street</I>, with no alternate texts given. Cyberhymnal.org does give three other suggestions, but I have yet to see one of them in a print hymnal.<BR/><BR/>Leland aka HaruoLeland Bryant Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211499185401035099noreply@blogger.com