HERZLICH TUT MICH

Stanza Arc

The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: Law to Gospel: from the demand to love God completely (St. 1) through confession of sin and need for Christ's redemption (St. 2), to the Holy Spirit's sustaining comfort (St. 3), culminating in trinitarian confidence and eschatological hope (St. 4)

Associated Hymn Texts (7)

• Lord You I Love with All My Heart — Martin Behm (1610)
• My God Will Never Leave Me — Ludolph of Saxony (1378)
• Now Let Triumphant Faith Dispel — Martin Behm (1610)
• Oh That I Had a Thousand Voices — Johann Mentzer (1661)
• True God and Yet a Man — Martin Behm (1610)
• Jesus, Once with Sinners Numbered — Nicolai Leonhard Zinzendorf (1737)
• Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted — Thomas Polhill (1677)

Set to This Tune in The Lutheran Hymnal (2)

• TLH 172 O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
• TLH 520 Commit Whatever Grieves Thee

Notes on the Tune

From Hymn Desk's analyses of the hymns sung to it.

TLH 172, O Sacred Head, Now Wounded : HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN (Hans Leo Hassler, 1601), in isorhythmic and rhythmic forms.

TLH 520, Commit Whatever Grieves Thee : HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN (Hans Leo Hassler, 1601); row 387 uses SUFFICIENTIA.