"Hamburg" (TLH #325)

I had new strings put on my mandolin, so this sounds a bit different.

Also, I discovered a mistake in the notation for this hymn.  At the end of the first phrase, the soprano and alto parts each have a whole note, but in the tenor and bass parts, there are only half notes.  Here's a scan from hymnary.org:

Of course, these should be whole notes, too, and that's how I played them.

"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"

Registration:

Upper:  74 8745 325

Lower:  00 6543 322

Pedal:  55

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

"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"

Recently, I watched the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service from 10 February.  The hymn was "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" (LSB #425, sung to the tune "Hamburg"), and I noticed a few features in it.

The second line of the third verse is "Sorrow and love flow mingled down!" sung to this musical phrase:

"Flow" is sung with a melisma (A G), giving something of a sense of movement, and since this pair of notes descends, there's even a bit of the sense of the "down" from the end of the line.

In the fourth verse, the text here is "That ["the whole realm of nature"] were a tribute far too small."  Here, "too" is sung with a melisma (E F), provided a sense of degree.

The fourth verse ends with the lines "Love so amazing, so divine, / Demands my soul, my life, my all!"  The first of these two lines is sung to this phrase:

"Amazing" and "divine" are both sung with melismas (G A G A and A G A, respectively), and these articulations provide a sense of degree for those "so"s.

"Hamburg" (TLH #175a)