{"id":552,"date":"2014-03-17T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T23:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2016-02-14T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:27:22","slug":"adapted-by-big-daddy-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Adapted by Big Daddy Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"553\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/?attachment_id=553\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,591\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Johann_Sebastian_Bach\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-553 alignright\" alt=\"Johann_Sebastian_Bach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>Our music minions approached Hymn #197, <em>O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown<\/em>, with a fair amount of gravitas and reverence.\u00a0 This is because Hymn #197 is one of the few songs in the LDS hymnal which is a bit more technical and musical.\u00a0 We like those songs best!<\/p>\n<p><em>O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown<\/em> is attributed to Hans Leo Hassler, 1564\u20131612, but was adapted by J. 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Bach, 1685\u20131750, in his St. Matthew Passion.\u00a0 The passion contains some beautiful melodies and variations on the theme we hear in Hymn #197.\u00a0 <a title=\"St Matthew Passion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Matthew_Passion\">Check out the wikipedia article about it<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, check out the choral album titled <a title=\"Morimur, Hilliard Ensemble\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bach-cantatas.com\/Performers\/Hilliard-Morimur.htm\">&#8220;Morimur&#8221; by the Hilliard Ensemble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to offer it as part of our library!\u00a0<a title=\"Get to the Music!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/\"> Download it and give it a try<\/a>.\u00a0 The arrangement is in a difficult key and it&#8217;s more difficult to play than other hymns.\u00a0 It sounds awesome as a quartet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our music minions approached Hymn #197, O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown, with a fair amount of gravitas and reverence.\u00a0 This is because Hymn #197 is one of the few songs in the LDS hymnal which is a bit more technical and musical.\u00a0 We like those songs best! O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/?p=552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adapted by Big Daddy Bach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43NGX-8U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bandhymns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}