Please turn to number 60 and join with the clarinets in “How Blessed From the Bonds of Sin”.
Number: 60
First Line: How Blessed From the Bonds of Sin
Name: RELEASE.
Meter: C.M.D.
Tempo: Broadly
Music: Danish Melody
Text: Karl Johann Phillipp Spitta, 1801-59
Tr. Jane Borthwick, 1813-97
Another “folky” hymn, the last in the section of hymns for “Septuagesima to Lent”.
I had to look up “Septuagesima”, as I don’t remember it being covered in Lutheran Confirmation classes.
Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday) is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied also to the period commonly called Shrovetide (the Pre-Lenten Season) that begins on this day and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins.
The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also called Shrove Sunday. The earliest date on which Septuagesima Sunday can occur is January 18 (Easter falling on March 22 in a non-leap year) and the latest is February 22 (Easter falling on April 25 in a leap year).
Old dogs, learning new tricks.
Clarinet Arrangement:060-howblessedfromthebondsofsin
All clarinets, this time. Doubled each part, twice through. Audacity “Medium Room” Reverb Effect applied.
