Hymn tune
KOMMT HER ZU MIR, SPRICHT GOTTES SOHN
KOMMT HER ZU MIR, SPRICHT GOTTES SOHN is a hymn tune in 8.8.6.8.8.6, credited to German (1490). 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 (copied from "Mehrstimmiges Choralbuch", 1906 Hymn 110. Translation from "Lyra Germanica", 1855 for St. Stephen's Day.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to KOMMT HER ZU MIR, SPRICHT GOTTES SOHN, 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?