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Friday, May 3, 2019

"All the Earth with Joy Is Sounding"

While writing the post about the Biblical sources for "All the Earth with Joy Is Sounding," I noticed a small connection between the text and the tune ("Michael").  Here are the last three musical phrases:


In the third verse, the text here is "From His face / Shines the grace / Meant for all our fallen race."  "All" is sung with a melisma (F G), musically giving something of a sense of that entirety.

In looking over the hymn again in order to write this post, I also noticed a small thing about the text here in the first verse:  "Wins the price: / Death's demise - / Songs of triumph fill the skies."  "Fill" is sung with a melisma (G F), musically giving a sense of the abundance.