Hymn to joy - Jane Parker Huber & Ludwig Beethoven

Translated into ASL by David Bar-Tzur

Created 11 June 2004, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

EXPLANATION OF THE GLOSSING SYSTEM
(to understand how I describe the signs in this translation).

1. YOURS-ctr WISDOM, TRUTH, BEAUTY.
YOURS-ctr SPIRIT, FIRE, SOUL.
YOURS-ctr ORDER, LOVE, DUTY.
YOURS-ctr PURPOSE, PLAN, GOAL.
HELP-us US VISUALIZE BETTER, PURER.
YOU-ctr INSIDE-SELF EVERYTHING LIVE,
SPIRIT ALWAYS MOVE+, FLOW+.
EVERY PLACE WE LOOK, YOU-ctr THERE.

2. YOURS-ctr DRAMA, MUSIC, DANCE.
YOURS-ctr STORY, SCULPTURE, PAINTING.
YOURS-ctr HUMOR, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL.
YOU-ctr MAKE OUR LIFE OVERFLOW.
CHALLENGE US GO-TOWARDS-GOAL.
TRUTH MANY PERSPECTIVE HAVE.
YOURSELF-ctr IN WORD, SONG WE TAKE-IN-BY-EYE/EAR
WHAT WE SKETCH AND SKETCH ITSELF.

3. YOURS-ctr ATOM SWEEP-IN-ROWS.
YOURS-ctr STAR MANY-IN-SKY (2h)bC-CL'revolve in space'.
GOD RULE EACH+ LIVE THING.
GOD RULE PEOPLE DIVERSE.
REALLY-WANT OUR KNOWLEDGE EXPAND-ON.
THAT MAKE WORLD BETTER CONTINUE'on and on'.
NO MORE HUNGER, NO MORE WAR.
(2h)#ALL EARTH BECOME ONE* NEIGHBORHOOD.

4. YOURS-ctr SCIENCE, HISTORY, TEACH"each".
YOURS-ctr FUTURE, BIG-QUESTION TO US.
YOURS-ctr (2h)alt.GRASPING, YOURS-ctr GO-TOWARDS-GOAL.
YOURS-ctr POWER KING THINK HIS-lf.
OUR LIFE BROKE+, WE NEED GESTALT.
HELP-us US FIT-TO-Heaven PLAN YOU-ctr HAVE.
WE FORGIVE LIKE YOU-ctr FORGIVE.
MAKE US FREE GO-AHEAD OUR DAYDREAM.

Notes: YOU-ctr - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

GO-TOWARDS-GOAL - like the sign GOAL but the DH moves in a vertical circle while going towards the goal to show a constant process.

TAKE-IN-BY-EYE/EAR - (2h)[3] moves > head of signer several times while the fingers (not thumb) curl to show either listening to spoken words or listening with the eyes to a signed message.

SWEEP-IN-ROWS - (2h)[A dot], palms touch, FOs away, then DH moves > DS while NDH is held in place, then both hands repeat a little lower.

(2h)bC-CL'revolve in space' - (2h)[bC] held up to frame the sky and hands revolve in small starts and stops.

REALLY-WANT - WANT but shaken back and forth.

EXPAND-ON - like the final part of HIT and the [S] - pullled away from the [1] and opens to a [5:]. For a QuickTime file of this sign, see ASL Pro: Expand.

BIG-QUESTION - like the sign QUESTION-MARK but both hands and all fingers (not the thumb) form a symmetric shape that is a question mark in the right hand and a reversed question mark in the left hand.

GESTALT - (2h)[5], POs down, FOs away, are held side by side and the hands descend, supinate, and end with POs up by traveling in a circle.

Lyrics:

1. God of wisdom, truth, and beauty,
God of spirit, fire, and soul,
God of order, love, and duty,
God of purpose, plan, and goal:
Grant us visions ever growing,
Breath of life, eternal strength,
Mystic spirit, moving, flowing,
Filling height and depth and length.

2. God of drama, music, dancing,
God of story, sculpture, art,
God of wit, all life enhancing,
God of every yearning heart:
Challenge us with quewsts of spirit,
Truth revealed in myriad ways,
Word or song for hearts that hear it,
Sketch and model - forms of praise.

3. God of atom's smallest feature,
God of galaxies in space,
God of every living creature,
God of all the human race:
May our knowledge be extended
For the whole creation's good,
Hunger banished, warfare ended,
All the earth a neighborhood.

4. God of science, history, teaching,
God of futures yet unknown,
God of holding, God of reaching,
God of power beyond each throne:
Take the fragments of our living,
Fit us to your finest scheme,
Now forgiven and forgiving,
Make us free to dare and dream.

treble clef as a symbol for musicTo hear the music (without words), go to MIDI music: J and click on "Joyful, joyful we adore you (not the instrumental)."

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