KIRKEN DEN ER ET GAMMELT HUS

KIRKEN DEN ER ET GAMMELT HUS is a hymn tune in 8.8.8.8.8.8.8, composed by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (1812–1887) (1840). 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.

1 hymn 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 Lutheran Hymnary, 1913 Hymn 132.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to KIRKEN DEN ER ET GAMMELT HUS, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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