"When in the Hour of Deepest Need"

I've written about small musical features in "When in the Hour of Deepest Need" twice before, but when it was part of the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service on 9 September last month, I found a few more.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein."  Here's the second musical phrase:

In the fourth verse, the text here is "And all our woes before You lay."  The phrase "all our woes" is sung to notes of all different pitches (Bb A G), giving something of a sense of the entirety of "all."

The same sort of feature is present in the line "Free us at last from ev'ry ill" at the end of the fifth verse, sung to this phrase:

Here, the phrase "ev'ry ill" is sung to notes of all different pitches (A G F), providing a sense of breadth.  Because the note values in this phrase are longer than the preceding ones (two half notes and a whole note rather than just quarter notes), there's even an added bit of emphasis.

The sixth verse begins with the line "So we with all our hearts each day," sung to this phrase:

"Hearts" is sung with a melisma (Bb A), giving a sense of the entirety of "all."

"When in the Hour of Deepest Need"

A couple years ago, I wrote a post about "When in the Hour of Deepest Need," specifically about how "deepest" in the title line is sung with a descending melisma for a sense of depth.  I was looking at the hymn again recently, and I realized that because "deepest" is a superlative adjective, this melisma could also serve to emphasize the degree.

"Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten" (TLH #141)

"When in the Hour of Deepest Need"

Back in March, I transcribed "When in the Hour of Deepest Need" and noticed a small feature about the first line.  It's sung to this musical phrase from the tune "Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein":

The title line "When in the hour of deepest need" is sung to this phrase, with "deepest" sung to a group of descending notes (Bb A G), musically giving a sense of that depth.

"All Mankind Fell in Adam's Fall"

When I transcribed "All Mankind Fell in Adam's Fall" last year, I noticed a few instances where portions of the text that mention the fall into sin correspond to descending phrases in the tune ("Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein").  As a side note, the tune is oddly formatted.  There are only four measures, but each of these has either twelve or fourteen beats.  This gave me some problems in making examples of the notation.

"All mankind fall in Adam's fall" (in the first verse) and "As by one man all mankind fell" (in the fifth) are sung to the first musical phrase:

The end of this phrase descends, musically representing the fall into sin that's mentioned in the text.

And "From one to all the curse descends" (in the first verse) is sung to the third phrase:

(I didn't notice this until I made my own notation [because it's divided in the hymnal], but there's a cross inscription here.  I don't think it has any connection to the text though.)

Here, the descent in the tune represents "the curse descend[ing]."