Hymn tune

NUN FREUT EUCH

NUN FREUT EUCH is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7.8.8.7, composed by Martin Luther (1483–1546) (1524). 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.

2 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 "The Hymns of Martin Luther" by Bacon, 1883. Setting originally from "Cantional oder Gesangbuch Augburgischer Konfession" by Johann Hermann Schein.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to NUN FREUT EUCH, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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