Hymn tune
ES IST GEWISSLICH AN DER ZEIT
ES IST GEWISSLICH AN DER ZEIT is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7.8.8.7, credited to Wittenberg, 1533 from Klug's Geistliche Lieder. 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.
2 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 (copied from "The Hymns of Martin Luther" by Bacon, 1883.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ES IST GEWISSLICH AN DER ZEIT, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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