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Monday, July 17, 2017

"Amazing Grace"

Archival post from 29 June 2016

Two week ago, "Amazing Grace" was one of the hymns I sang in church.  I noticed something about the last phrase in the third verse.  In both Lutheran Worship and the Lutheran Service Book, the tune ("New Britain") is in F major, and the note to which "home" in the line "His grave will lead me home" is sung is an F - the tonic or "home note."


In that phrase, there's a home both literally in the text and musically in the tune.