"All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine"

I've written about small features in "All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine" twice before, but when it was the hymn in a Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service last month (on 12 September), I noticed an-other one.

In the line "[Thou] Art high exalted o'er all creatures now" near the beginning of the fourth verse, the phrase "all creatures" is sung to notes of all different pitches (spanning a fifth:  A G D), providing a sense of breadth or entirety.  Here's the musical phrase (from the tune "Engelberg") to which the line is sung:

"All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine"

I wrote about a small feature in "All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine" a number of years ago, but when it was the hymn in the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service on the 23rd last month, I noticed something else.

The hymn is sung to the tune "Engelberg."  Here's the first musical phrase:

In the fifth verse, the text here is "Let ev'ry tongue confess with one accord."  The phrase "ev'ry tongue" is sung to notes of all different pitches (F, A, and G), giving something of a sense of breadth.

"All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine"

Last year, I noticed a small feature in "All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine," sung to the tune "Engelberg."  The second line of the fourth verse is "[Thou] Art high exalted o'er all creatures now," sung to this phrase:

"High" is sung to the highest pitch in this phrase (the highest pitch in the whole tune, in fact), so there's a musical sense of the word's meaning.

"Engelberg"

This tune isn't in Lutheran Worship, so this is just twice through the Lutheran Service Book arrangement.