Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Friday, March 15, 2024

"Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven"

I recently rediscovered a small feature in "Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven" that I'd neglected to write about.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Lauda anima."  Here's the fourth phrase:


In the third verse, the text here is "[He] Rescues us from all our foes."  Since the words "all our foes" are sung to all different pitches (F# G# A), there's a sense of that entirety, especially since one of those pitches is an accidental.