Hymn tune
DIVINUM MYSTERIUM
DIVINUM MYSTERIUM is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7.8.7.7, credited to Latin. 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.
The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1892 Ed. Charles Hutchins Hymn 52 (first tune) Lyrics source: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1904 Hymn 58 except verse 6 kept Neale's original instead of Baker's altered: from "Collected Hymns, Sequences and Carols of John Mason Neale" By John Mason Neale). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to DIVINUM MYSTERIUM, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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