Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
I had to write about a religious song for my Philosophy of Religion class and I wanted to share what I wrote with all of you! I love the idea of digging deeper into what the hymns we sing every week mean. Comment below and let me know your favorite Hymn. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing It’s funny how something written by a 22 year old pastor to enhance his sermon in the 1700s is a song we still can relate to today. Come Thou Fount of Every blessings is in hymnals, and sung by modern Christian artists today because it has timeless themes. On the musical Analysis side it is very easy to learn because it uses chords that are easy to sing in tune and find. It starts on tonic, and directly goes to the dominant chord. You also get the subdominant chords and that is the variety you get in most hymns. Singability is important in a good hymn because the congregation needs to be able to sing it The song is about grace, Christ’s love for us and the fact we are human a...