Hymn tune

ORIENTIS PARTIBUS

ORIENTIS PARTIBUS is a hymn tune in 7.7.7.7, credited to French (1853). 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.

60 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 Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1893 Ed. Messiter Hymn 111.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ORIENTIS PARTIBUS, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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