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

Friday, August 4, 2023

"You Are God; We Praise You"

A couple years ago, I noticed a small feature in "You Are God; We Praise You" (LSB #939, in the Biblical Canticles section).  About a third of the way into the hymn, there's the line "heaven and earth are full of Your glory," sung to this musical phrase:


"Glory" is sung with a melisma (Eb F F), musically giving a sense of the abundance that the description "full of" implies.