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Erroneous implication in tune info

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Wed, 03/20/2013 - 02:34 — Haruo

I find it highly improbable that Dykes composed ST AGNES for the text "Calm on the Listening Ear of Night"; I'm fairly sure he composed it for "Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee". But if I were not already sure of this, I would be sorely misled by the implication of this (mis)information: screenshot. I wish there were some way (or, if there is, then I wish I knew it) to correct this sort of thing. The casual (or even the dedicated) user of this site cannot be expected to have a Psalter Hymnal Handbook at hand to provide context. I think the best solution is to put square-bracketed references in the text; thus, "for this text" should be amended to read "for this text [Jesus, the very thought of thee]".


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Tue, 03/26/2013 - 21:29 — cfenner

Yes, I think the brackets would be a helpful addition in cases like this where the information in PHH is contextual. Go ahead and change it if you haven't already.

Tue, 03/26/2013 - 23:22 — Haruo

I hadn't yet done it, but you or someone did. Although the bracketed format is a little less aesthetically pleasing, I think it's significantly less likely to misinform, and that should be decisive. Thanks, Chris or whoever.

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