#828: Alleluia! Voices Raise

[lutheranhymns]

The meter is not listed as "trailing alleluias," but it qualifies, and also has "alleluia"s in the middle. The original text is from the 1600s, so we get old-school compounds like 'Thus our song shall overclimb/all the bounds of space and time." (When was the last time you overclimbed something?) But the tune was written in the 1990s; the fact that the tune name is "Princeton" made me wonder if it was written for a college choir who wanted to do something sacred-ish but not too preachy or overused. I didn't really expect to find out anything about the musical composer when I looked it up, but apparently, he (Richard Hillert) wrote the primary "This Is The Feast" arrangement from the 1978 "green book," so I actually have heard his stuff a lot!