Hymn tune

NEAR THE CROSS

NEAR THE CROSS is a hymn tune in 7.6.7.6 with refrain, composed by W. Howard Doane (1832–1915) (1869). 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 4 more texts in the same meter can be sung to it.

More by W. Howard Doane · All 7.6.7.6 with refrain hymns and tunes

Hymns sung to NEAR THE CROSS

Other texts in the same meter