We received a request to do LSB 516, “Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying.” The setting for that hymn is under copyright, but the hymn as found in The Lutheran Hymnal is public domain. TLH 609 will be the hymn for Thursday’s episode.
If you don’t have a copy of The Lutheran Hymnal, Kantor Beethe has prepared a PDF with melody and lyrics. They are just different enough from LSB that you won’t want to use LSB for this hymn.
First of all, AWESOME!!!
Secondly, you’d think the “king of chorales” would be fairly standardized in tune and translation by now, but the opposite is true. I copy-and-pasted the words onto my blog from the internet, then had to change them out to reflect LSB. The same issue happens with the rhythm to this hymn.
Thirdly, thanks for tackling this great work of the church! This one took some extra preparation and I am sure it will be AWESOME in the end.
[...] and lyrics for the “King of Chorales” can be found in the supplement for Episode 41. The vocals have been re-recorded, something I like to do for hymns that we recorded [...]