Hymn tune

PUER NOBIS NASCITUR

PUER NOBIS NASCITUR is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), composed by Michael Praetorius (1571–1621) (1609). 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 255 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 'The English Hymnal', 1906 Hymn 14. Lyric source: "A Little Book of Homespun Verse" by Margaret Sangster, 1911. page 21-22.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to PUER NOBIS NASCITUR, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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