This is an inspiring song of hope from Jesse Manibusan. It was added to Breaking Bread in 2018 by OCP. It syncopation is gentle and the melody singable. I suspect it is a timely piece.
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A general frustration for composers both traditional and new: the range!
We did “Hail, Holy Queen” at the weekend in B flat (as found in most hymnals) and I could hear the drop in volume and struggle at the end of each verse phrase which finishes with low B flat. If it’s transposed to C, then there’s a two high E’s to negotiate in the refrain.
This song is in the same boat, as it goes down to low A in the verses and high D in the refrain.
I think most people in the congregation and amateur choirs have untrained voices with a very limited voice range and struggle to hold long passages/notes that are very high or very low. I’m not sure that composers take that in to account when their material is intended for congregational use.
I don’t want to sound like an ad (and feel free to delete this, Geoff), but perhaps worth mentioning: if anyone is after a lot of accompaniments from Breaking Bread, a very economical way to do this down under, if you’re happy to play from a tablet, is to use OCP’s e-books. The 2021 keyboard/guitar accompaninent edition costs $US58 and contains well over 700 hymns/songs/psalms plus Mass parts. The printed edition is $US105 + very signifcant freight. It is important to note that most can’t be printed (I belive that some Psalm e-books can). They are intended for Android/iPad tablets, but they work fine on my Windows tablet – obviously I can’t say if that applies in general.