Just like on the old Monopoly card, this piece won 2nd prize in a beauty contest.

Love this!

Entirely unlike anything I have ever composed or arranged, though I do so exclusively for unaccompanied chorus. Here's a Good Friday hymn I arranged several years back: https://podoben.org/files/06-11-2018---come-let-us-bless-joseph-bulgarian.pdf

Beautiful—almost familiar seeming, but the modal character is refreshingly unusual to my ears.

Bortniansky also did an arrangement of this melody, but he sharped the seventh, making it seem much more conventional.

Yeah it’s that lack of leading tones that gives it its particular flavor. And your choice not to use typical cadential bass motions when the melody cadences on the modal tonic G.

Thank you!