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

Friday, February 26, 2021

"Jesus Has Come and Brings Pleasure"

A couple years ago, I wrote a post about some musical features in "Jesus Has Come and Brings Pleasure," but when this hymn was featured on Worship Anew a couple weeks ago, I found a couple I'd missed.

The first line of the fourth verse is "Jesus has come as the King of all glory!" sung to this phrase from the tune "Jesus ist kommen, Grund ewiger Freude":


"All" is sung with a melisma (F Eb), giving something of a sense of entirety.

The same feature is present at the end of the fourth verse, where "all" in the line "Jesus has come! He, the King of all glory!" is sung with a melisma (F G) in this phrase: