Hymn tune
ABERYSTWYTH (PARRY)
ABERYSTWYTH (PARRY) is a hymn tune in 7.7.7.7 D, composed by Joseph Parry (1841–1903) (1879). In a hymnal the tune has a name of its own, printed in capitals, because the same music carries many texts: any hymn written in its meter can be sung to it.
In this library it is the tune for 1 hymn, listed below, and 18 more texts in the same meter can be sung to it.
The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from "The English Hymnal", 1906 Hymn 87). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ABERYSTWYTH (PARRY), with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to ABERYSTWYTH (PARRY)
Other texts in the same meter
- Jesus, Lover of My Soul — Jesus, Lover of my soul,
- Watchman, Tell Us of the Night — Watchman, tell us of the night,
- Come, Ye Thankful People, Come — Come, ye thankful people, come.
- Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide — Holy Spirit, faithful guide,
- New Year's Day — While, with ceaseless course, the sun
- Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise — Hail the day that sees Him rise
- Sinners! Turn, Why Will You Die — Sinners, turn; why will ye die?
- The Song of Jubilee — Hark! the song of jubilee,
- What are these in bright array — Who are these in bright array,
- People of the living God — People of the living God,
- Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above — Pleasant are Thy courts above
- At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing — At the Lamb's high feast we sing