Hymn tune

ERHALT UNS, HERR, BEI DEINEM WORT

ERHALT UNS, HERR, BEI DEINEM WORT is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), credited to Wittenberg, 1543 from Klug's Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert (1543). 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.

256 hymns 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 (Music Souce: Music source: Concordia Kinderchöre, 1908 Hymn 117 page 141.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ERHALT UNS, HERR, BEI DEINEM WORT, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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