Hymn tune

REGENT SQUARE

REGENT SQUARE is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7.8.7, composed by Henry Thomas Smart (1813–1879). 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 11 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 "Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship", 1867 Hymn 58.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to REGENT SQUARE, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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Hymns sung to REGENT SQUARE

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