"Diademata" (TLH #341)

Transposed from E major to D major

"Crown Him with Many Crowns"

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Played with the "mellow" drawbar organ sound on my Hammond SKX, with the Hammond XPK-130G pedals

"Christ the Eternal Lord"

Last November, I noticed a small feature in "Christ the Eternal Lord," sung to the tune "Diademata."  In the third verse, there are the lines "Inspire our hearts, we pray, / To tell Your love abroad."  The second of those two lines is sung to this phrase:

The two syllables of "abroad" are sung to a large interval (a sixth:  E to C#), and this musical breadth gives a sense of the word's meaning.

"Crown Him with Many Crowns"

Last year, I noticed a small thing about "Crown Him with Many Crowns" when I watched the One LSB Hymn a Week video for it:

In the fourth verse, there's the line "Who died and rose on high," sung to this musical phrase from the tune "Diademata":

"High" is sung to the highest note in the phrase (and there's a rather large interval [a sixth] between it and the preceding note, which emphasizes this), musically giving a sense of its meaning.

The week after I noticed this, "Crown Him with Many Crowns" was one of the distribution hymns in church, and I noticed a second thing.  In the third verse, the line "But downward bend their wond'ring eyes" (describing the angels who cannot "fully bear that sight" of Jesus' wounds) is sung to a (generally) descending melody, illustrating that "downward bend[ing]" musically: