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

Friday, April 25, 2025

"All Christians Who Have Been Baptized"

Many years ago, I wrote a post pointing out a couple instances in "All Christians Who Have Been Baptized" where "forever" is sung with a melisma, providing a sense of this duration.  Earlier this month, "All Christians Who Have Been Baptized" was the hymn in a Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service (on the 3rd), and I found one I'd missed (probably because it's divided by a line break in the notation).  Here's the second phrase from the hymn's tune, "Nun freut euch":


In the third verse, the text here is "Immersed and drowned forever," with "forever" sung to the notes G D E F.