Hymn tune
DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (ISORYTHMIC)
DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (ISORYTHMIC) 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.
1 hymn 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 "In Excelsius", 1900 Hymn 205. Arrangement year noted in "The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes" 1880 Hymn 539 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 (ISORYTHMIC), with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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