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"Und meine Seele singt" (And my soul sings) is a new Christian hymn in German with text by Thomas Laubach and music by Thomas Quast. It was written based on the Magnificat, as a song of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied.

History and text

Thomas Laubach wrote the text of "Und meine Seele singt" based on the Magnificat. The melody was composed by Thomas Quast [de] in 2009. It was first published in 2010 in the choral songbook of the band RUHAMA Ins Weite, and recorded. It appeared in 2020 in the songbook God for You(th), a collection for young people.

The text is in four stanzas of four lines each, with a short last line. The refrain "Und meine Seele singt" is sung after two stanzas and in the end. It text begins: "Du siehst mich an wie keiner, Du siehst uns, wie wir sind" (You look at me as nobody else, You see us as we are), beginning in the first person singular.

References

1. ^ "Und meine Seele singt". evangeliums.net (in German). 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
2. "Und meine Seele singt". Rumaha Liederbuch (in German). tvd-Verlag. 2014.
3. "Thomas Quast". Diocese of Cologne (in German). 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
4. "Ruhama: Neue CD "Ins Weite" und Chorbuch". musica-e-vita.de (in German). 23 June 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2023.

External links

• Ruhama – Und meine Seele singt (2014) on YouTube
• "Singles-Liedblatt" (in German) Diocese of Cologne

• Contemporary Christian music
• German poems
• 21st-century hymns in German
• Neues Geistliches Lied
• 2009 songs