Friday, August 10, 2012

#223 "Have I Done Any Good?"

I like the addition in the 1985 hymnal of a word change in the second verse that reads, "Only he who does something helps others to live.  To God each good work will be known."  The old verse said "Only he who does something is worthy to live, The world has no use for the drone."
The new hymnal doesn't include the tempo markings.  I find that I still play the hymn with the ritard at measure 12: "Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way?" and then a tempo at "When they needed my help was I there?"
Another thing I liked better in the old hymnal was the bass and tenors had the words, "your mansion above" as kind of an echo at measures 19-20.  It isn't written like that in the 1985 hymnal.

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