Hymn tune
HOLY MATRIMONY
HOLY MATRIMONY is a hymn tune in 8.8.6.8.8.6, composed by H. W. Baker (1821–1877) (1865). 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.
10 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 and Lyrics source: "The Holy Year, with Tunes", 1865 Hymn 113). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to HOLY MATRIMONY, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Other texts in the same meter
- O could I speak the matchless worth — O could I speak the matchless worth,
- O Love Divine, How Sweet Thou Art — O Love Divine, how sweet Thou art!
- The Christian Soldier — O glorious hope of perfect love,
- Begin, my soul, the exalted lay — Begin, my soul, the exalted lay;
- The Pilgrim's Happy Lot — How happy is the pilgrim's lot,
- Circumspection — Be it my only wisdom here
- The Love of God — My God, Thy boundless love I praise,
- O Lord, how happy should we be
- Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day — My days, my weeks, my months, my years,
- The End of Life — And am I only born to die?