Hymn tune

HYFRYDOL

HYFRYDOL is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7 D, composed by Rowland Hugh Prichard (died 1887) (1830). 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 32 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 'The English Hymnal' 1906, Hymn 563. Arrangement - NOT PRICHARD per English hymnal, 1906 assume RV Williams). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to HYFRYDOL, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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