Time&Eternity

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have together formed the Nybygget kristen samverkan (in English: Interact; affiliated with
the European Evangelical Alliance).
24. Archbishop Gunnar Weman in the Foreword to Psalmer i 90-talet (my translation).
25. Thirty texts were written in the 1990s, twenty-three in the 1980s, twenty-four in
the 1970s, eight in the 1960s, and three in the 1940s. Nineteen are biblical texts, and sixteen
are undated (data partly according to year of translation).
26. The Uniting Church is a merger of The Congregational Union of Australia, The
Methodist Church of Australia, and The Presbyterian Church of Australia.
27. Also belonging to these expressions are noch, bald, einmal, schon; än(nu), alltjämt,
snart, en gång, redan; yet, still. These words occur both as fillers (as such, however, they can
be emphasized by placement within the sentence or by the melody) and as independent,
stressed meaning. Not infrequently, they appear in conjunction with other time-indicating
expressions, which is why they have been included to some degree in the qualitative analysis
despite being omitted from the quantitative analysis.
28. It would be tempting to examine the relationship between text and melody with
respect to the question of time. Melody as the passage of time certainly does not describe
time itself, but, through its direction, it could strengthen, emphasize, weaken, or even contradict
the expressions of time in the text. The agreement between text and melody with
respect to expressions of time (e.g., as it is realized in Sv ps 490) is diverse. A discussion of
these correlations, however, would go well beyond the framework of this study.
29. The hymns numbered 1–535, 550–691.
30. For the summarizing comparison, see the following table:
Number of Examined Number of Hymns
Average Number of
Passages Per Hymn
Number of Passages Containing Containing Time Containing Time
Hymns Time Indications Indications Indications
EG 677 885 452 1.31
GL 917 579 264 0.63
Sv ps 700 1128 550 1.61
Ps90 123 166 85 1.35
AHB* 624 (45) 782 (44) 437 (29) 1.25 (0.98)
SA 105 142 77 1.35
Total 3146 3682 1865
* The figures in parentheses refer to the figures for the hymns of the Catholic supplement that are
contained in the total numbers.
31. Meditations/prayers are not included in these calculations, since they have no comparable
stanza organization.
32. Summarizing table:
Occurrence of Time
Number of Indications in the
Hymns Number of Time Final Stanzas of
Containing Indications in the Hymns Containing % of all Time
Time Final Stanzas of Indications of Time, Indications Found
Indications These Hymns in % in Final Stanzas
EG 452 203 44.91 22.94
GL 264 96 36.36 16.58
Sv ps 550 281 51.09 24.91
Ps90 85 54 63.53 32.53
AHB 437 238 54.46 30.43
SA 77 41 53.25 28.87