Hymn tune

AYLESBURY

AYLESBURY is a hymn tune in Short Meter (6.6.8.6), credited to 1718 from John Chetham's Psalmody (1718). 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.

125 hymns in this library share its meter and can be sung to it.

The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1904 Hymn 449. (not in 1875 ed.; can't get hands on 1889 supplement) 1904 edition is UNSIGNED). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to AYLESBURY, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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