"High" is sung to the highest pitch in this phrase (the highest pitch in the whole tune, in fact), so there's a musical sense of the word's meaning.
Friday, July 24, 2020
"All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine"
Last year, I noticed a small feature in "All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine," sung to the tune "Engelberg." The second line of the fourth verse is "[Thou] Art high exalted o'er all creatures now," sung to this phrase:
"High" is sung to the highest pitch in this phrase (the highest pitch in the whole tune, in fact), so there's a musical sense of the word's meaning.
"High" is sung to the highest pitch in this phrase (the highest pitch in the whole tune, in fact), so there's a musical sense of the word's meaning.
