Hymn tune

SOUTHWELL

SOUTHWELL is a hymn tune in Short Meter (6.6.8.6), credited to 1579 from William Daman's Psalter (1579). 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 124 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 Common Service Book (ULCA), 1917. Hymn 320.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to SOUTHWELL, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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Hymns sung to SOUTHWELL

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