Hymn tune
CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN is a hymn tune in 7.6.7.6, composed by Melchior Vulpius (died 1615) (1609). 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.
4 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 "Mehrstimmiges ChoralBuch", 1906 Hymn #32, page 23 Ed. Karl Brauer.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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