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

Friday, April 7, 2017

"Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain"

A couple weeks ago, I transcribed "Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain," which reminded me of something I'd noticed awhile ago and needed to get around to writing about.

This is just a small point, but - when the text is sung to the tune "Naar mit öie" - the line "Sinners, ruined by the fall" descends.  Here's the melody for that line:


There's a fall in the text, and a literal fall in the tune.  The melody there spans an octave (D to D).