This morning I started working on a song for our newly-formed Women's Choir at church, and since I want to take a little break from the arranging mode, I am working on an original piece. I started by looking through old files and coming across something that I had "jotted down" in 2008 that I had called "Hymn." I took that 40 seconds of the D-dorian tune and started some harmony, then added a refrain.
The difficult part for me is to come up with lyrics. I started looking through hymn books to get some inspiration, and, at first, I came up with some words based on the Beatitudes. I don't think the mode of the song fits the words especially well, so I kept looking. Although I have not written any more lyrics, I think I want to work on some that are based on Psalm 137 - the poem of longing by the Israelites held captive in Babylon. You know the one - By the Waters of Babylon, or On The Willows in Godspell.
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