Hymn tune
DER LIEBEN SONNE LICH UND PRACHT
DER LIEBEN SONNE LICH UND PRACHT is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7.6.6.8.8, credited to Halle, 1704 from Freylinghausen's Geistreiches Gesangbuch (1704). 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.
The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (Music and Lyrics source: "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913 Hymn 269). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to DER LIEBEN SONNE LICH UND PRACHT, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.