“Death Held Our Lord in Prison” a ‘Although tis sao orginal ym by Lathe, ts root go deep ito the Middle Agee. Around the year 1050, Vipo, cout capita 10 Enperor Henry II, formed the mighty soquecce “Victnze Pas. chal lus? which as become pare ofthe Eater lry inthe Boman nite Tt echo can bo detected expecially in the forth sam of Luther’ chole, Bot log befre Lether thie same eoquencs had sneiead « German folksong for Harter. The Lets, “Clit lt rtandon™ was widely own bythe thbtouad century and retained popa- lunty ut well inn the eghteath cantar. "The fect that Lathers chorale “Dauth Hold Our Lend ia Piso” appears fe the eat sources der the heading: “The Song of Prats ‘Chet it ertandon’ Amon” has pled many hols, for is own that Lather was extremely fond of "Chee fer etenden” and his Hacer chorale sn feet quite dependant of the preRefomation fk song. Olvowty this heading relore fot € tho tbat tn the meld of Lather ym, which ean ‘be tncod to that of th fk sng. "the regular streture of ths hymn auld be noted. OF the oven sane the Set tres ond oneal rere the Eater a sage and the other three and enetalf give the application. ‘The ‘meter consis of sven yes of even sable each anda igh vase of eight elables ‘We ofr the melo in two diferent vais. ‘The St of Gate appears in the Efot exci In Walters hymnal (at Setting ofthe hye), and im many Iter voraes. The eso fmt he cont fous for the other two of Walters tren stingy ofa ‘wth ie Tyan, The tras sa revison ofthat hy MacDonald, Rect, pp. Sst a WA 95, 4.45; tho evo vasios of the melody are WA %5, 6307. No other tne wit ever sociated “Death Held Our Lord in Prison” = t ae “ i i [ i & i "g ea al A aa a i a g a ana) Bee ae Gohan Gk = ft & Bal-re fot ee z a aPublished by Concordia Publishing House and Fortress Press (formerly Muhlenberg Press) in 55 eolumes, General Ealitors are Jaroslav Pelikan (for vols. 1-30) ‘and Helmut 7. Lehmann (for vol. 31-55) LUTHER’S WORKS VOLUME 53 EDITED BY ULRICH $. LEUPOLD GENERAL EDITOR HELMUT T. LEHMANN FORTRESS PRESS / PHILADELPHIA