Last month, I wrote
a post on "God of Grace and God of Glory." One of the features I noted was that "long" in the lines "From the fears that long have bound us / Free our hearts to faith and praise" is sung with a melisma for a sense of duration. A few days after that post was published, I lookt at the version of "God of Grace and God of Glory" in
Lutheran Worship and discovered a slight difference.
In
The Lutheran Service Book, "long" is sung with a two-note melisma (F E):
In Lutheran Worship, "long" is sung with a three-note melisma (G F# G):
This isn't a particularly significant difference, but because of that extra note, there is a bit more emphasis in the Lutheran Worship version.
