EBELING

EBELING is a hymn tune in 8.3.3.6 D, composed by Johann Georg Ebeling (1637–1676) (1666). 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 Chorale book for England" 1863 Hymn 31. Lyric source: Lyra Germanica, 1872 Hymn I. page 13). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to EBELING, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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