The first half of the clip below is verses 5 and 6 from my home recording. This is just one of many similar changes that Paul made which can be heard throughout the recording.Ĭomparing my first home recording of Psalm 48 made in the late 1980’s to the Abbey Road recording of the London Voices and the London Symphony Orchestra demonstrates these changes fairly well. This allowed for more space to be heard around the word “there”, making the verse much more intelligible to the listener. In the above example, the shifting of the words and notes downstream to the right in verse 6 allowed for an eighth note rest to be inserted after the word “there”. Hearing the music sung live during the recording process helped me to better understand more fully the benefits of the changes that were made. All other words in the verse are also shifted rightward, allowing the last word, “travail”, to be simplified to two half-notes for the last measure. “Fear” is shifted to the right to begin the next measure as an eighth note.
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