"When to Our World the Savior Came"

When I wrote about the Biblical sources for "When to Our World the Savior Came," I also found a small musical thing to note.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Canonbury" (an adaptation of the fourth of Robert Schumann's Nachtstücke, Op. 23).  Here's the last phrase:

In the fourth verse, the text here is "His healing hands stretched forth to save."  "Stretched" is sung with a melisma (B A), and this musical elongation gives a sense of the word's meaning.

"Canonbury"

My post a couple weeks ago about Haydn's tune "Austria" reminded me of an-other instance where a classical piece is used a hymn tune.  "Canonbury" (used for LSB #551 "When to Our World the Savior Came") is adapted from the fourth of Robert Schumann's Nachtstücke, Op. 23.  Incidentally, Schumann's birthday is next week; he was born on 8 June 1810.