Each phrase is a conjunct melody, going up and down by degrees of the scale, so there's a musical sense of those "footsteps."
Friday, March 20, 2020
"I Walk in Danger All the Way"
About a year ago, one of the hymns in church was "I Walk in Danger All the Way," and I noticed a small feature in the fifth verse. The fifth and sixth lines are "And by His footsteps led, / My path I safely tread," sung to these phrases from the tune "Der lieben Sonne Licht und Pracht":
Each phrase is a conjunct melody, going up and down by degrees of the scale, so there's a musical sense of those "footsteps."
Each phrase is a conjunct melody, going up and down by degrees of the scale, so there's a musical sense of those "footsteps."
