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

Friday, October 17, 2025

"In God, My Faithful God"

Last month, I watched the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service from 5 September.  The hymn was "In God, My Faithful God," and I noticed yet an-other instance of a feature I've been finding a lot lately.  In the lines "'So be it,' then, I say / With all my heart each day" at the beginning of the fifth verse, the phrase "all my heart" is sung to notes of all different pitches (A G F), lending a slight sense of this entirety.  The lines are sung to these musical phrases from the tune "Auf meinen lieben Gott":