Hymn tune
DEO GRACIAS
DEO GRACIAS is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), credited to English (1415). 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 2 hymns, listed below, and 254 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 "A Hymnal" (Episcopal), 1918 Hymn 439, alt by BJD 21 Mar 2011. Translation from "The Hymnal, Noted", 1854 (UK), hymn 73. Verse 5 altered.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to DEO GRACIAS, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to DEO GRACIAS
Other texts in the same meter
- Just as I Am, Without One Plea — Just as I am, without one plea,
- When I Survey the Wondrous Cross — When I survey the wondrous cross
- Happy Day — O happy day, that stays my choice
- Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun — Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
- Sun of my soul, Thou Savior Dear — Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,
- From Every Stormy Wind That Blows — From ev'ry stormy wind that blows,
- Glorying in the Cross of Christ — Jesus! and shall it ever be,
- From All That Dwell Below the Skies — From all that dwell below the skies,
- Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep — Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
- An Evening Hymn — Glory to Thee, my God, this night,
- The Lovingkindness of the Lord — Awake, my soul, in joyful lays,
- Exhortation to Worship — Before Jehovah's awful throne,