Note 23 — A Practical Discourse on some Principles of Hymn-Singing By Robert Bridges
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No. 57 is a good example. The line Du bist mein, und ich bin dein, corresponds in stanza 2 with Wenn die Welt in Trümmer fallt, and in stanza 4 with Elend, Noth, Kreuz, Schmach und Tod. Again in No. 77 the opening phrase, Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, of the twenty-second psalm needs music which conditions the other stanzas severely. Again the weak apologetic latter half of the German hymn Herzliebster Jesu, No. 42, is irreconcilably out of the key with the pathetic grief of the beginning. Cases in which caesuras and grammatical breaks are inconsistent are numberless.