#430: Rejoice, for Christ is King!

[lutheranhymns]

The alto (and tenor) parts are fairly repetitive, but the bass part in the refrain jumps around a lot. At some points it's very far below the tenor (hard to play on the piano) and at other points they overlap. I was going to see if the bass ever rises above the tenor but a. I don't think it does and b. I got sidetracked onto some nerdy music theory sites, because of course the AP music theory practice tests would touch on this, why wouldn't they, totally normal thing to be researching at 11 pm.

Anyway. "purged our stains" meaning, roughly, "removed our sins" sounds weird to the modern ear, I feel like "purge" has negative connotations even if it shows up in the Psalms. Maybe it's because of that movie.