On Sun 10 Jul 2016 at 19:33:17 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote: > On 10/07/16 17:47, David Wright wrote: > <snip> > > > > While one might argue that a lot of religious translations might > > have been written with a view to intonement, or recitation at > > least, and therefore with particular attention paid to the rhythm > > of the words, I don't think that Jefferson wrote letters to Adams > > that way. > > That rather depends upon the translation of the Bible used.
That's as may be. Most compositions with religious texts need only their source, not their writer, above the music. Whether it's poetry, poetic, or prose doesn't really concern me. It was an aside. I just wanted to give an example of a setting of unimpeachable prose where poet = "Thomas Jefferson" would yield dubious metadata. I attached it to your post only because it happened to be at the end of the thread. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
