#713: O God of Every Nation
Mar. 11th, 2020 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsText-wise, this gives us the prayer "your servants undergird," which is a great image because apparently the people of God are like skyscrapers and stuff. Also, the rhyme "labor/saber," nice.
The accidentals are weird. This is in G minor, which means it ends on a "sad" chord. However, it's specifically harmonic minor, which means the F is often sharp, like it would be in G major. This doesn't just happen in the melody, but in a lot of the harmony parts as well. (I don't know how to summarize this nicely, but it has a stereotypically "Middle Eastern" sound, and I didn't just make this up, Wikipedia agrees.) With this many accidentals you might expect the last verse to end on a Picardy third, which means "end it as if it was in major after all," for an extra "hopeful" sense, but there's nothing to indicate that.
This melody is in fact Welsh, hence the double Ls in "Llangloffan."
The accidentals are weird. This is in G minor, which means it ends on a "sad" chord. However, it's specifically harmonic minor, which means the F is often sharp, like it would be in G major. This doesn't just happen in the melody, but in a lot of the harmony parts as well. (I don't know how to summarize this nicely, but it has a stereotypically "Middle Eastern" sound, and I didn't just make this up, Wikipedia agrees.) With this many accidentals you might expect the last verse to end on a Picardy third, which means "end it as if it was in major after all," for an extra "hopeful" sense, but there's nothing to indicate that.
This melody is in fact Welsh, hence the double Ls in "Llangloffan."
