Notes

Strongly inspired by Mario Lanza’s recording in Because You’re Mine (1952), from which this became the first English-language sacred song I ever learnt that wasn’t a Christmas song.

Arrangement

Arranged on the evening of 2024-07-24 and the morning of 2024-07-25 (around 6 hours of typing Lilypond files). The main difficulty in arranging and typesetting in Lilypond was that, the way Lilypond handles voices, you’re strongly encouraged to consider which voice a note belongs to: there is a stronger emphasis on the semantic element.

Then there was dealing with Logic Pro’s MIDI editor for the organ: after a bit of searching, I came to the conclusion that it’s pretty much impossible to do “registration” in Logic Pro on a single organ track, so I had 4 sets of MIDI tracks, with each set played by a different organ library, using volume automation to achieve registration changes. It does sound a little artificial and I’m not entirely satisfied with the registration-based crescendo at the climax, though I’m not entirely sure what else I’d do with it.

Recorded in 3 takes (including warmup) on the morning of 2024-07-31.