Hymn tune

DUKE STREET

DUKE STREET is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), composed by John Warrington Hatton (1710–1793) (1793). 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 4 hymns, listed below, and 253 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 "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905. Hymn 132. Setting quite similar to "Songs of Pilgrimage" 1888 hymns 76-79). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to DUKE STREET, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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Hymns sung to DUKE STREET

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