#663: Spread, Oh, Spread, Almighty Word
Jul. 10th, 2019 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsIs the melody used for anything else?
No, but it kind of feels like it should be? Very straightforward scales and chords, seems like a nursery rhyme.
Does the composer have an awesome name?
Awesomely long, his full name is "Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen" but the hymnal just credits him as J.A. .
Who or what is being addressed?
Unclear. Is the Almighty Word God/Jesus himself, who is being requested to spread his own reign? Or is the narrator telling people to spread [the] word?
No, but it kind of feels like it should be? Very straightforward scales and chords, seems like a nursery rhyme.
Does the composer have an awesome name?
Awesomely long, his full name is "Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen" but the hymnal just credits him as J.A. .
Who or what is being addressed?
Unclear. Is the Almighty Word God/Jesus himself, who is being requested to spread his own reign? Or is the narrator telling people to spread [the] word?
