Hymn tune
NATIVITY
NATIVITY is a hymn tune in 7.7.7.7.7.7, composed by William Henry Monk (born 1823). 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.
19 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 Music and lyrics from "The Holy Year", 1865 by Christopher Wordsworth Hymn 10 page 18). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to NATIVITY, 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
- Rock of Ages — Rock of ages, cleft for me,
- Safely Through Another Week — Safely through another week
- For the Beauty of the Earth — For the beauty of the earth,
- As With Gladness Men of Old — As with gladness men of old
- Go to Dark Gethsemane — Go to dark Gethsemane,
- Christ, Whose glory fills the skies — Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
- Come, and Welcome — From the cross uplifted high
- Till He Come — "Till He come:" oh, let the words
- Quiet, Lord, my froward heart — Quiet, Lord, my froward heart;
- Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me — Gracious Spirit, dwell with me!
- What Sin Hath Done — Hearts of stone, relent, relent!
- God of Mercy, God of Grace — God of mercy, God of grace,