I wrote about a small feature in "Thee Will I Love, My Strength, My Tower" about a year ago, but when it was the hymn in a Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service last month (
on the 13th), I found two more instances of something I've been noticing a lot lately: phrases beginning with "all" are sung to notes of all different pitches, lending a sense of entirety.
In the line "Thee will I love with all my power" in the first verse, the phrase "all my power" is sung to the notes B A G F# in this musical phrase (from the tune "Ich will dich lieben"):
In the line "Thee will I love with all my heart" near the end of the second verse, the phrase "all my heart" is sung to the notes F# G E in this musical phrase:
