“The Common Prayer includes materials that can be adapted to local liturgical and musical traditions of churches in the two Christian traditions.”
Nice, so the Lutherans can sing it as a joyous hymn, while the Catholics turn it into a mournful dirge :)
Go ahead and be joyous all the time. “Sin and sin boldly”, Martin Luther.
Lutheran singing is one of those treasures that I had to leave home to realize. Growing up Lutheran, it was just assumed you could sing in three part harmony and bellow like a bull.
Just don’t ask us for solos
https://sites.google.com/site/srwsite/Home/lutheran-music