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In the 250 most popular hymns list, why is "All people that on earth do dwell" listed as "All people that on earth do dwell (Vous tous qui la terre habitez)" given with the French equivalent (not source; Kethe didn't base his translation on the French to my knowledge; the original is Hebrew) in parentheses following the English? At least in the case of "Angels we have heard on high (Les anges dans nos campagnes)" the French text given is arguably the source of the English, as well as of the tune. Surely "Vous tous qui la terre habitez" is not as common in recent American hymnals as "Adeste fideles, laeti triumphantes", yet that is not given parenthetically at "O come, all ye faithful".
Also, where do I go to correct the typo in "Ethernal Father, strong to save"?
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Some typos are too precious
Some typos are too precious to fix. (I've used the word "viscious" for years to mean "mean and slimy"--which started out as someone else's typo.) Add this to your favorite dictionary as meaning something like "forever in the sky".
;-)
;-D
Fixed
Precious or not, I fixed the "Ethernal father" typo. It was in the title of the Presbyterian Hymnal instance.
The French version of the title of the other hymn is no doubt from the title of the hymn in some other modern hymnal. I'm not sure how to fix that without mucking up that hymnal, because of the way this page was programmed.
Ultimately, I suppose we should use the title from the authority record, not from some instance.
Yes
It seems to me the authority record is a better bet than any individual hymnal. I know nothing of how the programming on that "common hymns" page is set up; it's an intriguing list, and there are a few items I'm surprised to see on it and a few others I surprised not to see. I think it would also be an improvement if the figure cited for "number of hymnals" could be based on the modern hymnal corpus the page's frequencies are based on rather than the total database number of instances. The disparities between hymns that appeared before 1900 and those that appeared since 1979 are just a bit too glaring the way that is currently set up.
I must say it's easier to get stuff corrected here, even when I have to go through channels, than it is at a place like Amazon.com. They rarely reply to "Contact" efforts.