What I find missing in #MuseScore: A way of adding dynamic markings or hairpins to several voices at once.

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I'm finally learning how to properly use synths (as opposed to fumbling around with all the knobs) using Syntorial and god I love it. It cheers at you if you do everything right and it gives you a passive aggressive slow clap if you mess up something XD it's awesome (and very useful too)

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Hello internet

What are your favourite Christian hymn texts written by dead people, preferably ones who have been dead for 70 years?

I don't care about the tunes at all, I'm planning to compose my own. In fact, it's better if these are decent texts without strong tunes.

Boosts welcome.

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I am stuck on this line:

"Nou hit faleweth al by dene"

This is often translated as "now it withers/fades all together"

but I wonder if "now it falls all down" might work better. The "it" here is grain/grass from the previous line "Al that gren me graueth grene" (all that grain which groweth green/grew up green/something)

A dene is also a valley -- and related to Proto-Germanic "Dani" which is a threshing-floor, and seems appropriate for grain.
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That was good. Got a melody for most of "Wynter wakeneth al my care", and a structure for how I want the different verses to work in terms of texture. It's admittedly going to be a bit sparse and bleak, but that rather suits the text.

Text is at https://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medlyric/wynterwakeneth.php

I've done my own modernisation of the words because that's easier than learning IPA. (I should learn IPA) and probably easier for singers.

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I have a big deadline next Sunday for final work in PhD portfolio, so of course I spent the last 3 hours writing a lullabye for a competition, also due Sunday.

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It's that time of year again: we're well into Ordinary Time, so I need Christmas carol texts!

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