Talk:The night is come (Robert Barber)

Classification as 'hymn' - proposed change to 'anthem'

This is currently categorised in the subgenre 'Hymns'. While the text is a hymn (it is metrical), the setting is through-composed, without repetition of the same music for more than one verse of the text, which is (I'd suggest) a characteristic of the 'Hymns' subgenre as we have it. Through-composed settings of verse texts in this fashion were often described in the period and context (18th c. English psalmody) as 'set-pieces', but as we don't have a category for set-pieces as such, I'd propose to move it into the subgenre 'Anthems', which does already include some set-pieces as well as through-composed settings of prose texts - just wanting to check first that no-one objects. Regards, Cydonia 18:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree that this is really more of an anthem than a hymn and have recategorized the work as such. – Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 00:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)