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

Friday, April 5, 2019

"Sing with All the Saints in Glory"

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post about some features in "Sing with All the Saints in Glory," but since then, I found a couple more.

Both are within the first two phrases (the tune is "Mississippi"):


In the first verse, the text here is "Sing with all the saints in glory, / Sing the resurrection song!"  "Resurrection" is sung to an ascending group of notes (F G A Bb), musically giving a sense of its meaning.

In the third verse, the text is "Life eternal! Heav'n rejoices: / Jesus lives who one was dead."  Here, "eternal" is sung with a melisma (F C F E), and since the word is drawn out, there's a sense of that duration.