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The practice of naming hymn tunes developed to help identify a particular tune. 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 ...
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.
A collection of hymns is called a hymnal, hymn book or hymnary. These may or may not include music; among the hymnals without printed music, some include names of hymn tunes suggested for use with each text, in case readers already know the tunes or would like to find them elsewhere.
The Primitive Baptist Hymnal: a choice collection of hymns and tunes of early and late composition (1881) [571] Hymn and Tune Book for Use in Old School or Primitive Baptist Churches (1886) [572] Harp of Ages; Old Baptist Hymns (2012) Old School Hymnal; Primitive Baptist Hymn Book; The Good Old Songs; Songs of Faith (Double Oak Press) (2000)
It was common practice [20] to attribute hymn tune names to the place where they were collected by folk song collectors, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams who co-edited The English Hymnal, published in 1906. Slane is a village in Ireland. Four more 20th century hymns have been set to the same tune.
Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale harmonisations, alternatively named four-part chorales, are Lutheran hymn settings that characteristically conform to the following: four-part harmony; SATB vocal forces; pre-existing hymn tune allotted to the soprano part; text treatment: homophonic; no repetitions (i.e., each syllable of the hymn text is sung ...
Since the twentieth century, singer-songwriter hymns have become common, but in previous centuries, generally poets wrote the words, and musicians wrote the tunes. The texts are known and indexed by their first lines ("incipits") and the hymn tunes are given names, sometimes geographical (the tune "New Britain" for the incipit "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound").
In addition to arranging many pre-existing hymn tunes and creating hymn tunes based on folk songs, he wrote several original hymn tunes: Original hymn tunes included in The English Hymnal (1906) "Come Down, O Love Divine": entitled Down Ampney in honour of Vaughan Williams's birthplace "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" (Randolph) "Hail Thee ...