Talk:There is a green hill far away

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Did you know... that "There is a green hill far away" was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:43, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the hymn "There is a green hill far away" was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"? Source: Given in article
- ALT1:... that the hymn "There is a green hill far away" was originally intended as a children’s hymns? Source: In article

Reviewed: Not strictly necessary if we go by the letter of the rules but I'll find one somewhere... Update: Seraph Young Ford
Comment: Considering that this is what the article looked like before this is essentially me writing a new one over the old one :). Maybe I should consider keeping the ALT0 hook for latter in case this ever gets to GA (since it is a particularly good hook, IMHO). Oh, that, and I'm completely out of the liturgical season (it's a hymn for passiontide, usually) but asking this be delayed until spring next year would be utterly silly... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Created/expanded by RandomCanadian (talk). Self-nominated at 02:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Date, length and hooks all OK. My preference is also for the original but if you want to run it on next year's Passiontide, you'd have to withdraw this and resubmit it if it becomes a GA next year as it can only run once. I would suggest that I think the title should have more capitals under MOS:MUSICCAPS. QPQ done, no close paraphrasing. Good to go. @RandomCanadian: The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:33, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The C of E: Regarding the title: most of the sources I cite (especially the academic ones, which we should follow), use sentence case (and there's none of the usually capitalised nouns such as "King" or "Father" or the like), so I assume this is MOS:INCIPIT in which case no caps. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:08, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@RandomCanadian: yes, the ALT0 is a wonderful hook, but it makes the quote sound like it came out of Charles Gounod's mouth, instead of the source. Yoninah (talk) 23:17, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: Ah, you got me down this rabbit-hole. I'll look up on that. Anyway, taking the time to listen to the podcast I cited (I based the text on the textual summary below), what I understand is that those words are indeed out of Gounod's mouth. This also has the same wording and gives it more explicitly as coming out of the composer's mouth. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:05, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that Oyster Mouth Parish citation should be used instead of the one in there now. Yoninah (talk) 00:16, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah:

Done I have commented out the other citation and replaced it with this one (which was already in). Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:25, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Restoring tick. Yoninah (talk) 09:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: I just thought of a possible minor improvement for the hook; but since the discussion over there is closed, posting here: at the very beginning, change that the hymn ... to that ...; hymn is already given in the quote so mildly redundant/needlessly verbose. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:44, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, thanks. Yoninah (talk) 23:48, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]