Rich Caldwell wrote:
To those with experience in setting hymns:
I'm setting a hymn with 6 verses. I'm not terribly familiar with the conventions —
what would be a good limit to the number of verses between the treble & bass
clefs in a system? They want all the verses to be in the music, not separate as is
sometimes customary.
Personally I feel 6 is too much space between the staves, but if it's standard,
whoever is singing will be used to it. Or should one repeat the music and have
three verses each time?
Thanks,
Rich
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_The United Methodist Hymnal_ (1989) (which was set in Finale, BTW) has
several hymns with five or six stanzas between the staves. The first
hymn in the book (which is "O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing" in every
Methodist hymnal) has seven! (The UMH has Charles Wesley's original 17
stanzas of this hymn in text on the next page. We sang all of them for
his Dec 18, 2007 tricentennial.)
Our organist (my wife) sometimes complains about the wide space between
staves, but she deals with it.
Raymond Horton
Minister of Music
Edwardsville (IN) UMC
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