Hymn tune

HAMBURG

HAMBURG is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), composed by Lowell Mason (1792–1872) (1824). 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, and 255 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 "Northfield Hymnal", 1904 Hymn 210. ABC file contributed to the Open Hymnal by Tobin Strong, 20 Dec 2013. composite from "The Anglican hymn Book", 1871 hymn 127 and "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869 Hymn 101.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to HAMBURG, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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