Tag: Hymn Texts
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Hymns and Their Texts: Rhythmic, Rhymed Rituals of Language
As I prepared this talk, I also consulted with some of my hymn-text-writing colleagues. These are people who craft texts only, apart from music. I asked them questions along the lines of “why do you write hymn texts?” or “what value do you see in hymn texts?” and such. I don’t think it was a…