Hymn tune
ELLACOMBE
ELLACOMBE is a hymn tune in 7.6.7.6 D, credited to Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle (1784). 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 2 hymns, listed below, and 42 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 Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 364.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ELLACOMBE, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to ELLACOMBE
Other texts in the same meter
- Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus — Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
- From Greenland's Icy Mountain — From Greenland's icy mountains,
- Work, for the Night is Coming — Work, for the night is coming;
- The Morning Light is Breaking — The morning light is breaking,
- The Church's One Foundation — The Church’s one foundation
- Jerusalem the Golden — Jerusalem the golden,
- O Day of Rest and Gladness — O day of rest and gladness!
- O sacred head now wounded — O sacred Head, now wounded,
- O Jesus, Thou Art Standing — O Jesus, Thou art standing
- O Jesus, I Have Promised — O Jesus, I have promised
- In Heavenly Love Abiding — In heavenly love abiding,
- I Lay My Sins on Jesus — I lay my sins on Jesus,