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The name was chosen by the compiler of the tune book or hymnal or by the composer. The majority of names have a connection with the composer and many are place names, such as Aberystwyth or Down Ampney. Most hymnals provide a hymn tune index by name (alphabetical) and a hymn tune index by meter.
Most hymnals include a metrical index of the book's tunes. A hymn may be sung to any tune in the same metre, as long as the poetic foot (such as iambic, trochaic) also conforms. All metres can be represented numerically, for example "Abide With Me" which is 10.10.10.10. Some of the most frequently encountered however are instead referred to by ...
Pages in category "Hymn tunes" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Hymn tune; A.
The Church School Hymnal with Tunes (1903) [86] Hymn tunes: being further contributions to the hymnody of the church (1903) [87] Anthem book of the Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany (1909) [88] The Hymnal (1916) [89] Hymnal of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (1918) [90] The Church Hymnal (1920) [91] The Hymnal (1920) [92]
Printed collections of Bach's harmonisations usually provide an alphabetical collation of the chorales, that is, ranged alphabetically by text incipit of the hymn. Some editions contain an alphabetical index at the end of the compilation, for instance at the end of the final volume of C. P. E. Bach's 18th-century collection.
Hymnary.org is an online database of hymns, hymnodists and hymnals hosted by Calvin University's Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Christian Classics Ethereal Library. The searchable database contains over one million hymn tunes and texts and incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology. The oldest hymnals in the database are ...
Tune books were large oblong-shaped books with hard covers (nine inches by six inches was a typical size), often running to over four hundred pages. They included both music and text and were introduced by an extended essay on the rudiments of singing. Each song was known by the name given to its tune rather than by a title drawn from the text ...
The tune was first published in 1897 in the periodical Yr Athraw ('The Teacher'), vol. 71, in tonic sol-fa notation, and its first appearance in a hymnal was in 1900, in The Baptist Book of Praise. The famed English composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) referred to this as one of the greatest hymn tunes.