LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Stanza Arc
The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: Invocation of creation to praise God → enumeration of creatures' gifts → call to gratitude and eternal adoration
Associated Hymn Texts (12)
- All Creatures of Our God and King
- All Creatures of Our God and King
- All creatures, worship God most high!
- From All that Dwell Below the Skies
- Let All Together Praise Our God
- Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
- All You Works of God, Bless the Lord
- All You Works of the Lord
- Allelujah Let Praises Ring
- At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing
- Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds
- Thine the Amen, Thine the Praise
Set to This Tune in The Lutheran Hymnal (3)
Notes on the Tune
From Hymn Desk's analyses of the hymns sung to it.
TLH 15, From All That Dwell Below the Skies : LASST UNS ERFREUEN (Cologne, 1623) in TLH; often also sung to OLD HUNDREDTH.
TLH 212, A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing : LASST UNS ERFREUEN (Cologne, 1623) — the extended Alleluias give the hymn its jubilant character.
TLH 475, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones : LASST UNS ERFREUEN (Cologne, 1623) — its Alleluias make it a festive processional.