"I Know That My Redeemer Lives"

I recently watched the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service from 6 May.  The hymn was "I Know That My Redeemer Lives," and in it, I noticed yet an-other instance where a phrase starting with "all" is sung to notes of all different pitches, resulting in a sense of extent or entirety.

The fifth verse starts with the line "He lives to silence all my fears," sung to this phrase from "Duke Street":

The phrase "all my fears" is sung to the notes D C# B A.

"Jesus Shall Reign"

I was looking at "Jesus Shall Reign" recently, and I noticed a small feature that I'd missed the two other times I wrote about the hymn.

Near the end of the fourth verse, there's the line "The weary find eternal rest," sung to this musical phrase from the tune "Duke Street":

"Eternal" is sung with a melisma (A D B A G F#), and since the word is drawn out, there's a sense of that long duration.

"Jesus Shall Reign"

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"Duke Street" (TLH #200)

Because it would feel wrong to play tunes from Easter hymns during Lent, I'm going to hold off on going any further into TLH and go back to do some of the tunes I skipt.

"Jesus Shall Reign"

I was flipping through my hymnal recently and noticed something in "Jesus Shall Reign" that I probably should have mentioned more specifically when I wrote about the hymn a couple years ago.

I noted the musical span (particularly in the second measure) of this phrase from "Duke Street":

and that it connects with the breadth in the text there in the first verse:  "His kingdom stretch from shore to shore."  I didn't mention, however, that "stretch" is sung with a melisma (D F#), which also gives a sense of the expanse.

While reading over the text in order to write this post, I also realized that "from shore to shore" is a merism.

"Jesus Shall Reign"

One of the hymns in church a few months ago was "Jesus Shall Reign."  It's sung to the tune "Duke Street," the first phrase of which is:

This phrase musically demonstrates something in each of the first lines of the hymn's verses.  The first two lines of the first verse are "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun / Does its successive journeys run."  The "wher'er" is sung to three syllables rather than just two, so there's a representation of the breadth.  The same feature is in the fourth verse, which begins "Blessings abound wher'er He reigns."  There's a similar feature in the third verse, which begins "People and realms of ev'ry tongue."  Here, "ev'ry" is sung to three syllables rather than just two, but there's the same representation of an entirety.

The second verse begins with "To Him shall endless prayer be made."  In this line, "endless" is sung to three syllables instead of just two, so there's a representation of the long period of time.

In the fifth verse, the line here is "Let ev'ry creature rise and bring," and the "ris[ing]" is represented by the ascent in the first part of the phrase.

I also noticed something about the third musical phrase:

There's a fairly large musical span (the second measure has D notes in two octaves), and in the first verse, the text here is "His kingdom stretch from shore to shore," so there's a large expanse in both the music and the text.