Hymn tune

NEW BRITAIN

NEW BRITAIN is a hymn tune in Common Meter (8.6.8.6), composed by James P. Carrell (1787–1854). 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 325 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 "Joy to the World", 1915, Hymn 209 Ed. E. O. Excell explicit about arrangement. Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org) Hymnary Think setting from "Make His praise glorious", 1900. Ed. Edwin Othello Excell.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to NEW BRITAIN, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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Hymns sung to NEW BRITAIN

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