#533: Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty
Aug. 9th, 2020 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsToday on hymns in the wild: we sang "Almighty God, Your Word Is Cast" (yesterday's blog post) during virtual quarantine service today. "Virtual quarantine service" being one of those phrases I did not expect to type when I started this blog but now is part of the normal parlance. It didn't have much to do with the text, today's reading was about Jesus walking on the water. Maybe that's the dew of heaven? ...Probably not.
Today's song is a melody that technically is only used for this one hymn. "Technically," because one of the many communion settings has a bunch of service music with melodies adapted from existing hymns (Ode to Joy, etc). and when you look it up in the index, these are also referenced. So this is one of the Gospel Acclamation options (an alternative is the sad Latvian melody).
Done with this section.
Today's song is a melody that technically is only used for this one hymn. "Technically," because one of the many communion settings has a bunch of service music with melodies adapted from existing hymns (Ode to Joy, etc). and when you look it up in the index, these are also referenced. So this is one of the Gospel Acclamation options (an alternative is the sad Latvian melody).
Done with this section.
