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

Friday, December 2, 2022

"We Praise You and Acknowledge You, O God"

A couple months ago, I watched the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service from 13 September.  The service was Matins (although not all of it is included in the video), but "We Praise You and Acknowledge You, O God" (LSB #941) was substituted for the "Te Deum."  I wrote about some musical features before, but I found a new one to note.

The second line in the first verse is "The Father everlasting, by all the earth adored," sung to this phrase from the tune "Thaxted":


The phrase "all the earth" is sung to notes of all different pitches (D C Bb), and this provides a sense of the entirety of that "all."