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

Friday, May 12, 2023

"Greet the Rising Sun"

A couple years ago, I noticed a small feature in "Greet the Rising Sun," sung to the tune "Le P'ing."  The last two lines of the second verse are "May Your bounteous grace / By my life be told," sung to these musical phrases:


"Grace" is sung with a melisma (A G F), musically giving a sense of the abundance of "bounteous."