Hymn tune

OLD 100TH

OLD 100TH is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), composed by Louis Bourgeois (born 1510) (1551). 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 2 hymns, listed below, and 254 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 ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to OLD 100TH, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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Hymns sung to OLD 100TH

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