Hymn tune
NON DIGNUS
NON DIGNUS is a hymn tune in 7.6.7.6, credited to traditional (1871). 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.
4 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 "American Catholic Hymnal", 1913 page 114 hymn 87. Text also from this source. original source in 1777 per Vatican II hymnal: http://www.ccwatershed.org/vatican/ This hymn is found as early as "Children's Hymn Book and Sodality Manual" 1869 #49. I can find a printed copy of the hymn in the "Catholic Youth's Hymnal", 1871.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to NON DIGNUS, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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