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

Friday, October 18, 2024

"All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine"

I wrote about a small feature in "All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine" a number of years ago, but when it was the hymn in the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service on the 23rd last month, I noticed something else.

The hymn is sung to the tune "Engelberg."  Here's the first musical phrase:


In the fifth verse, the text here is "Let ev'ry tongue confess with one accord."  The phrase "ev'ry tongue" is sung to notes of all different pitches (F, A, and G), giving something of a sense of breadth.