{"id":1245,"date":"2004-08-30T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T06:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1245"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"the-priesthood-of-our-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/the-priesthood-of-our-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priesthood of Our Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I speak not of the actual priesthood, but of the hymn.  Number 320, set for men&#8217;s voices, is (I believe) the only hymn in the current book which is &#8220;approved&#8221; (i.e., has a notation at the bottom) for singing in rounds.  Which we did today, in Sacrament Meeting.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bobandlogan.com\/\">Logan Bobo <\/a>led the first group.  He took about a third of the priesthood; I had about two thirds for my group.  (The numerical superiority of my contingent didn&#8217;t come close to hiding the fact that Logan has, by far, the best male singing voice in the ward.)  I thought it sounded pretty good, though.  It was especially nice for our heavily-convert ward, where the music tends to be extremely plain-vanilla.  <\/p>\n<p>The Priesthood of Our Lord is a fun hymn with a catchy tune, and it&#8217;s too bad that it is exiled to a relatively unused part of the hymnal.  It capability for singing as a round is a cute added bonus.  I suspect that other hymns could be sung as rounds, despite the lack of &#8220;official&#8221; approval, which might also be fun.  That might require a bit of tinkering, but is probably doable.  (I know I&#8217;m no expert, and setting up something as a round might take a little work for me; I suspect that given 5 minutes, a pro like D. could probably arrange any hymn in the book as a round, The Wintry Day not excepted).  Perhaps I can sit down with Logan and try it some time.  I wonder what other hymns would work well as rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I speak not of the actual priesthood, but of the hymn. Number 320, set for men&#8217;s voices, is (I believe) the only hymn in the current book which is &#8220;approved&#8221; (i.e., has a notation at the bottom) for singing in rounds. Which we did today, in Sacrament Meeting. Logan Bobo led the first group. He took about a third of the priesthood; I had about two thirds for my group. (The numerical superiority of my contingent didn&#8217;t come close to hiding the fact that Logan has, by far, the best male singing voice in the ward.) I thought it sounded pretty good, though. It was especially nice for our heavily-convert ward, where the music tends to be extremely plain-vanilla. The Priesthood of Our Lord is a fun hymn with a catchy tune, and it&#8217;s too bad that it is exiled to a relatively unused part of the hymnal. It capability for singing as a round is a cute added bonus. I suspect that other hymns could be sung as rounds, despite the lack of &#8220;official&#8221; approval, which might also be fun. That might require a bit of tinkering, but is probably doable. (I know I&#8217;m no expert, and setting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}